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  • One killed in shooting on Florida Street, police say

    BATON ROUGE - One person was killed in a shooting on Florida Street, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.Police responded to a shooting around 7:45 a.m. at 1900 block of Florida Street and found a man dead from gunshot wounds.This is the second shooting today, as another on Choctaw Drive resulted in three people being transported earlier Sunday.No other information is available at this time.Permalink| Comments
  • 10 shot by teen gunman at Florida party venue, police say

    SANFORD, Fla. — A teenage gunman wounded 10 people when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out during a private event at a Florida party venue, authorities said. A security guard tackled and disarmed the shooter almost immediately, and a second guard handcuffed him until sheriff’s deputies arrived, according to an arrest report from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. It said 10...
  • 'Pure evil': Guatemalan illegal alien allegedly lethally stabbed his girlfriend and her daughter, Florida police say

    Florida police mounted a massive manhunt in search for an illegal alien accused of stabbing his girlfriend and her daughter to death in a shocking and brutal crime. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister described an "extremely gruesome scene" in a very emotional media briefing on Wednesday evening. Chronister said police swarmed a mobile home at about 5:30 p.m. after a roommate found the bodies of a woman and her daughter on Wednesday in the city of Dover. He said they found the...