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| Florida TV journalist and girl killed near homicide scene | |
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| A TV reporter and a nine-year-old girl were killed and two others shot outside Orlando, Florida, near the scene of a murder that took place hours earlier. | |
| A second reporter and the girl's mother were also shot by the man suspected in Wednesday's earlier murder. | A second reporter and the girl's mother were also shot by the man suspected in Wednesday's earlier murder. |
| The two Spectrum News 13 journalists were reporting on the killing of a woman in the area that morning when the suspect returned, police say. | |
| It is unclear if they were targeted, Florida officials say. | |
| The suspect was armed when he was arrested and was not co-operating with police, said investigators. | |
| None of the three people killed in Wednesday's two attacks have yet been identified. | |
| The violence unfolded in Pine Hills, a suburb west of Orlando. | |
| In a news conference, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said the film crew were "in or near their vehicle", which he said did not look like a TV station's official vehicle, when they were attacked at about at around 17:00 local time. | |
| He said the journalists had been reporting on a shooting that took place earlier in the day at around 11:00 local time inside a car, when the suspect returned to the crime scene and opened fire. | |
| After attacking the journalists, the alleged gunman - Keith Moses, 19 - went into a nearby home and shot the girl and her mother, the sheriff said. | |
| The mother was in hospital in a critical condition, he added. | |
| Asked about the possibility that the gunman purposefully targeted the reporters, Mr Mina said "we have seen that as a nation and around the world so it's something we'll be taking a look at". | |
| He added that it was also possible the suspect mistook the journalists for police. | |
| A reporter for Orlando TV station WESH 2 reported that she and her camera operator had left the crime scene only moments before the shooting. | |
| "We got a gut feeling" and decided to leave for their own safety, said Senait Gebregiorgis. | |
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