HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Three people have died and three others are injured after gunfire erupted early Monday at an apartment complex near Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida, authorities said.
#BREAKING Police investigating deadly shooting just blocks from Homestead Air Reserve Base this morning @nbc6 pic.twitter.com/SF86ycsZEA
— Julia Bagg (@JuliaNBC6) June 7, 2021
According to WTVJ and WPLG, the incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. local time near the intersection of 282nd Street and Southwest 126th Court. Police arrived to find three people dead – a woman, a 15-year-old and the suspected shooter, authorities said.
Emergency crews flew two children and one other victim to a nearby hospital, where one child, an 11-year-old, is being treated for critical injuries, WTVJ reported. Further information about the victims’ conditions was not immediately available.
Investigators believe that the suspected shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to WTVJ.
Read more here or here.
©2021 Cox Media Group
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/LW2VP2Y6PJDZPLDJCDBZRFVCAI.png)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/43ZYOPEFMJHLFI3OQ3B5OXWDZM.jpg)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/XCS5GJFEOFHDNEZGYXRYOZ35LM.jpg)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/D2DVXVPXTRASLGSZXEHYQHQ74A.jpeg)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/V5TWF6CJAZFXBLDTZXOE47OMN4.jpg)