Four people, one of them a minor, died Tuesday in an apparent case of “murder-suicide” in a house in the town of Casselberry.north of Orlando, in the central region of Florida (USA), according to the authorities.
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After receiving a call to the emergency number, officers from the Casselberry Police Department (CPD) found four people with gunshot wounds inside an apartment in the Coawood Court development.
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Two of the victims were men, one of them a child, and the other two were women, according to an official report.
Paramedics from the Seminole County Fire Department, who attended the scene along with agents from the Sheriff’s Office, transferred at least one injured person to the hospital, but ultimately none of the victims survived, local media report.
According to CDP spokesman Capt. William Nas, one of the men involved in the shooting called 911 and said he had been shot.
“Preliminary information indicates that this is a circumstance involving a subject who committed a triple homicide and then committed suicide,” Nas said in a statement.
So far the Police have not provided the names or ages of the victims, and the investigation is ongoing.
A group of United States senators, both Democrats and Republicans, announced last Sunday an agreement in principle to increase control over firearms in the country, which proposes minimum measures after the mass shootings in a Buffalo supermarket ( New York) and in a school in Uvalde (Texas).
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*With information from EFE
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