Key takeaways:
- Three people were killed and two injured in a series of shootings in Orange County, Florida on Wednesday.
- The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a suspect in the shootings.
- Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the shootings, and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has asked anyone with information to come forward.
Orange County, Florida was rocked by a series of shootings on Wednesday that left three people dead and two injured. The victims included a 9-year-old girl, her mother, and a local TV journalist.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a suspect in the shootings on Wednesday afternoon. Sheriff John Mina said in a news conference that “no one in our community – not a mother, not a 9-year-old, (and) certainly not news professionals – should become the victim of gun violence in our community.”
Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the shootings. The violence began in the Pine Hills neighborhood just west of Orlando, where a nine-year-old girl and her mother were found shot at a nearby home. The violence then continued when two reporters for Spectrum News 13 were shot while covering a homicide.
The shooting of a journalist was particularly difficult for the local media community. Luana Munoz, a reporter at WESH-TV, delivered an emotional report on “every reporter’s absolutely worst nightmare” in the hours after the shooting.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has asked anyone with information about the shootings to come forward. In the meantime, the community is mourning the loss of three lives and hoping for a swift resolution to the case.
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