At least three people were killed, including a 9-year-old girl, by gunshots this Wednesday, February 23, in three different shootings near Orlando, Florida (USA), while They report at least two injuries and a 19-year-old detainee as a suspect of having caused the deaths, the authorities reported.
One of the deceased was a communicator for the television channel Spectrum News 13from Orlando, covering a homicide investigationOrange County Sheriff John Mina (central Florida) reported at a press conference.
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Mina confirmed that two members of a team of Spectrum News 13 they had moved to the scene of a homicide investigation and were shot. One of them died and the other was injured.
The investigators also went to a house where they found a nine-year-old girl and her mother with gunshot wounds, from which the minor might not recover and died.
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The shootings began on Hialeah Street, where a woman in her 20s was shot to death in the morning hours.
Several people were taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center for treatment, but their conditions are unknown, the digital outlet wesh.com said.
At the press conference, authorities said one person was captured at the scene of one of the shootings.
“We have arrested the person believed to be responsible for the murder this morning, as well as the shooting this followingnoon,” Mina said.
“This is Keith Melvin Moses, 19 years old. He is being formally charged with the murder since this morning and we await additional charges for the shooting of the four people this followingnoon,” added the sheriff, who added that the young man “has a long criminal history , which includes weapons charges, aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and grand larceny.”
“It’s not clear why exactly they were targeted, and we’re certainly going to look into that,” the sheriff said, referring to television reporters.
On his website, Spectrum News 13 He mentioned that, for the moment, he is not going to publish the names of the members of the film crew who were victims of the shooting.
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The detainee had no relationship with the mother and daughter he shot or with the journalists, the officer explained.. He did know, however, the woman shot down in the morning.
“No one in our community, not a mother, not a nine-year-old child, let alone media professionals should be victims of armed violence,” Mina lamented.
EFE and AFP
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