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Three killed in Orange County, Florida, shootings; Spectrum News 13 crew among those shot

A woman was killed in the morning and two journalists covering that killing were shot hours later, the sheriff said; a 19-year-old is in custody and the motive is undetermined.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Feb 23, 2023, 1:02 a.m. ETWritten Aug 12, 2026, 4:23 a.m. ET

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people were killed in shootings on February 22, 2023 in a neighborhood just west of Orlando, in Orange County, , according to a toll CNN attributed to . A woman was killed inside a vehicle on Hialeah Street in Orange County in a shooting reported at around 11 a.m. Wednesday. CNN reported that detail without attributing it to a named official. Two Spectrum News 13 journalists were at the scene covering that killing, and said they were shot at around 4 p.m. while investigators were following leads in the first shooting. Mina said the journalists' vehicle "was almost exactly in the same spot as the vehicle was from the homicide this morning." A suspect is . Mina identified him as . Mina said investigators have not established why the shootings happened. "We're still not sure what his motive was. Why he did this," he said. "But we want to find out because I know the community wants to know." Of one of the shootings, he said: "It's unclear why exactly they were targeted." He also said, "We don't know why he entered that home," and "We're still trying to track down how he obtained the firearm." The cause and motive have not been determined. Officials in this account have not released the identities of those killed or injured. The Orange County Sheriff's Office is the responding agency. Mina said: "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." The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said: "Our hearts go out to the family of the journalist killed today and the crew member injured in Orange County, , as well as the whole Spectrum News team."

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