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A suspect was taken into custody on Wednesday after an Orlando journalist and a 9-year-old child were killed, and two others were shot in Pine Hills.
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- 3 dead, 2 injured in series of shootings on Wednesday
- 9-year-old girl, TV news reporter killed
- 19-year-old suspect arrested
- No motive identified
- WESH reporter says she had "gut feeling" to leave before ******* broke out
According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, deputies got reports of two shootings around 4:05 p.m.
One of the shootings happened on Hialeah Street, where deputies had been investigating a separate homicide earlier in the day. A woman, later identified as 38-year-old Nathacha Augustin, was shot and killed there at about 11 a.m.
At that scene, deputies found two Spectrum News 13 employees shot. One of them died, and the other is in critical condition.
"It is unclear if [the suspect] knew if they were news media or not," Mina said. "We're still trying to work all of that out. That vehicle was almost exactly in the same spot as the vehicle from the homicide this morning. So it's unclear why exactly they were targeted."
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