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Man shot and killed by police in Gainsville, FL
Gainsville, FL – A struggle between an Alachua County sheriff’s lieutenant and an 18-year-old Gainesville man on a busy city street ended Friday afternoon with the deputy fatally shooting the man, whom witnesses reported had attacked the deputy and tried to grab his gun. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m. after a flood of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man Shot Dead at apartment Complex
Jacksonville, FL – Police are canvassing an apartment complex known for violent crime, after a man is shot to death. Officers were called to the Hill Top Village Apartments, off West 45th Street and Moncrief on the Northwest side Saturday afternoon, in response to an alarm going off. However, when they got to the complex, they heard several [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man shot dead while sitting in a rental car
WEST PALM BEACH, FL, — Monday afternoon Samuel Hall of Lake Worth was shot and killed while he sat in a rental car in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant on Military Trail. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jose Diaz and charged him with 1st degree murder and robbery with a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Florida Law protects SUV owner who shot, killed woman
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Authorities do not plan to file charges against a Florida orange grove owner who fatally shot a 21-year-old woman, saying he is protected under the state’s controversial “no retreat” law. But the woman’s boyfriend faces second-degree murder charges in her death, because the woman was shot to death during an alleged [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man killed himself on second trip to gun range
CASSELBERRY, FLorida – Jason Kevin McCarthy, 26, was at Shoot Straight on U.S. Highway 17-92 about 11 a.m. Monday and asked about renting a gun, Casselberry police Officer Joseph Nas said in a report that has just been released. McCarthy was handed paperwork to fill out, “but he stated he had something to do first [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Police say shooting death of 19-year-old was accidental
Tampa, Florida – A 19-year-old who was accidentally shot in the face after a friend said the teen had been playing with a handgun has died, police said today. John Taylor Weber was taken to Tampa General Hospital on Friday in critical condition. He died about 4 this morning, Tampa police said. Weber was a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )2 Florida sheriff’s deputies fatally shot
CRESTVIEW, Fla. – Two north Florida sheriff’s deputies were fatally shot at a shooting range by a suspect who was later killed in an exchange of gunfire with deputies after he fled across the county line, authorities said. The incident began shortly after 10 a.m. when the Fort Walton Beach Medical Center notified the sheriff’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )81-year-old man shot dead his neighbor over dispute
SHADY HILLS, Florida – A dispute between neighbors this afternoon has left a 29-year-old man dead and an 81-year-old man a suspect. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says John Croft, 17654 Connie Court, shot neighbor Seth A. Sigmon, 17642 Connie Court, multiple times. Croft has been arrested on manslaughter charges, according to sheriff’s spokesman Kevin [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )16-year-old shot dead over argument
ST PETERSBURG, FL — Brian Graver makes a few bucks each week cooking food for workers in the Childs Park neighborhood. His grill is hot and sometimes too are tempers at nearby Childs Park. Some kids go there looking for trouble. On Tuesday night at about 8:45, a fight from the neighborhood carried over into [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Deputies Fatally Shoot Man at Truck Stop
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL — Three St. Johns County deputies shot and killed a man early Saturday morning at a truck stop near County Road 206 after he pulled out a gun. The identity of the shooting victim has not been released. According to the sheriff’s office, a deputy was patrolling the Flying J Truck [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man dies after shooting family, self
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A Miami Beach, Fla., man died hours after shooting his wife, daughter and himself, police said. The man, whose name was not immediately disclosed, shot his family before turning the gun on himself Sunday, The Miami Herald reported Monday. The man’s 14-year-old daughter knocked on a neighbor’s door just before 4 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )In St. Petersburg, street feud’s sad toll is an 8-year-old girl
St. Petersburg, Florida – For decades young men from Bethel Heights have warred with their rivals from Harbordale. No one even remembers how the feud started. But the city is once again mourning in its aftermath. An 8-year-old girl is dead, gunned down when her home was raked by semiautomatic rifles early Sunday morning. Paris [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mother shot son, then turned the gun on herself
Casselberry, Florida - Marie Moore, a 44-year-old woman from Florida, has fatally shot and killed her 20-year-old son before killing herself at a shooting range.Marie Moore and her son Mitchell Moore were at central Florida gun range ‘Shoot Straight’ Sunday sharing a firing when Marie killed her and then herself. According to Casselberry police, a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )3 found shot dead inside West Kendall home
Jose and Nolvia Salazar lived quiet lives in their shady West Kendall neighborhood. The silence was shattered early Sunday when the couple and Nolvia Salazar’s daughter, Karla Valle, 27, were found shot dead in a scene that Miami-Dade police called “domestic in nature.” Police would not call the deaths a case of murder-suicide, but said [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man shot his wife and himself in their home
Miami Lakes, Florida – The Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce is mourning the violent and disturbing death of its president, David Waud. According to media reports, police said Waud shot his wife, Carol Waud, and himself on Saturday in their Hialeah home. Waud was also identified as president of local company Profit Inc. The chamber [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Riverview woman charged in death of Maine man
RIVERVIEW, FL – A Riverview woman has been charged in the March 5 death of a man who was staying at her residence. Tamra Suzanne Leasure, 43, of 12920 Shadow Run Blvd., Riverview, was arrested today and charged with the second-degree murder of Arthur R. Tilley Jr., 57, of Dedham, Maine, according to a release [...]
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