(Miami) A television journalist and a nine-year-old girl were killed in a shooting in Florida on Wednesday near the scene of another homicide earlier in the day, authorities said.
A 19-year-old man, suspected “in the murder this morning as well as the shooting this afternoon”, has been arrested by police, county official Sheriff John Mina announced at a press conference. where Orlando, a large city in this southeastern American state, is located.
A local television crew from Spectrum News 13 took to a street in suburban Orlando on Wednesday afternoon to cover the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman earlier in the day.
As they were working, a man opened fire, killing a journalist and injuring his colleague, then entered a nearby house and, for no apparent reason, shot a woman and her nine-year-old daughter, killing the latter .
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted her “thoughts” for the family of the slain journalist and the entire Spectrum News 13 team, adding that “too many lives are being snuffed out by the violence by firearm. »
The United States pays a very heavy price for the spread of firearms in its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them.