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Teen Girl Clinging To Life After Random Shooting In Orlando

Monday, May 19, 2008 – updated: 1:01 pm EDT May 19, 2008

Detectives were questioning a potential suspect Monday in a shooting that left a young woman in critical condition overnight. Orlando police said the crime appears to be unprovoked and completely random.


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Early Monday morning, police took a driver in for questioning. He was driving a car that matched the description of the car whose passengers opened fire, but he has not been charged.

A bullet hole was left in the right rear door of a Nissan Maxima, evidence of a violent crime that left 18-year-old Mildred Beaubron in critical condition.

"Obviously, they're young, young ladies in their early 20s, late teens. So they've never experienced anything like this before," said Lt Connie Baldwin, Orlando Police Department.

The group of three young women stopped at a convenience store after a night out around 3:30 Monday morning. As they left, they noticed a silver PT Cruiser with three or four men inside trailing them.

"All I can tell you is they went to a gas station before they went home, on Colonial Drive, and they came up here and the car trailed them the entire way, was trying to get their attention," Baldwin explained.

Eventually, that car pulled even with them and someone opened fire near Princeton and John Young Parkway (see map). Orlando police found a PT Cruiser of the same appearance near LB McLeod and Kirkman roads a short time later and police were questioning the driver.

Eyewitness News stopped by the UCF-area address where that PT Cruiser was last registered, but no one answered the door.

Beaubron is at Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition.

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