ORLANDO, Fla. — A 28-year-old man was found fatally shot early Friday in a vehicle at an intersection near downtown Orlando, the Orlando Police Department said.
Travis Theophilus Turner's body was found shortly after 2:30 a.m. in a bullet-riddled car at West Colonial Drive and North Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando police Sgt. Wanda Miglio said.
Orlando police said a male driver died from a gunshot wound. Detectives are at the intersection of OBT and Colonial Drive. pic.twitter.com/1UOeiI8ZZb
— Julie Salomone (@JSalomoneTV) March 10, 2017
Turner's family members from Apopka gathered at the crime scene.
"It's hard," relative Danielle Roberts-Turner said. "It's hard, because I've never experienced a death like this. To see him actually laying like that, it's hard."
Roberts-Turner said Turner was the father of a baby girl.
Hear the man's relatives react to his death below:
"I don't understand why someone would come take his life," she said. "If anybody out there knows (something), please come forward. If you're scared to tell the police, come tells us, his family members. Come knock on our door. Let us know, please."
The roads were closed for six hours as investigators processed the crime scene.
Police investigating homicide at OBT & Colonial Dr. Family members said they kept the victim's mom from scene because it was too much. pic.twitter.com/rAutT6vCGT
— Julie Salomone (@JSalomoneTV) March 10, 2017
The mother of Turner’s child, Freda Washington, said he was a good man who lived for his 1-year-old daughter.
“My child was his only child. That was his life,” she said. “(You all) took a great man away. (You all) took a wonderful father away from his child.”
At 4: The father of a 1-year-old girl was found dead in a car in the middle of a busy Orlando intersection. #WFTV pic.twitter.com/xujGdv5auR
— Jeff Deal (@JDealWFTV) March 10, 2017
The shooting remains under investigation and police have not said why Turner may have been targeted.
It’s still not clear if he was shot at he intersection or somewhere else and died while driving away.
No other details were given.
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