On Wednesday afternoon, four people were shot and two were killed in the same area where a woman had been found dead earlier in the same day, according to sheriff’s deputies in Florida.
FOX 35 reported that one person was detained following the shooting in the afternoon, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff John Mina said that officers responded to reports of a shooting in the same area at 4:05 p.m, adding that a reporter and photographer with Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, Florida, were shot. One of the News 13 employees was killed.
The 19-year-old suspect allegedly continued shooting after opening fire at the News 13 vehicle, going into a nearby house and shooting a mother and her 9-year-old daughter, Mina said, adding that the 9-year-old tragically died.
Mina said that Keith Melvin Moses, 19, is in custody, and accused of being responsible for both shootings on Wednesday, which resulted in two deaths and three injuries. Moses has a “lengthy criminal history,” according to the sheriff, which ranges from gun charges, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft.
Moses was reportedly an acquaintance of a woman who had been killed this morning, but has no known connections to the mother, 9-year-old or reporters. Mina said that it’s unclear why the journalists were targeted.
“It’s unclear why exactly they were targeted. And, you know, certainly we’re going to look into that,” Mina said.
At 11 a.m. earlier in the day, Deputies responded to a shooting in the Pine Hills neighborhood near Orlando, Florida, where a woman in her 20s was shot and killed.
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