2 dead, 6 injured in shooting at downtown Orlando amid Halloween celebration
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The Orlando police chief told a press conference that the alleged gunman, a 17-year-old boy, had been arrested.
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ORLANDO – Two people died and six were injured in a shooting in the downtown area of Orlando, Florida, in the midst of Halloween festivities, several local US media outlets reported on Nov 1, adding that a teenage suspect had been arrested.
People in Halloween costumes stood in the incident area as emergency personnel attended to casualties laying in the street, a video posted on Instagram, verified by Reuters, showed.
The injured people were taken to hospital and are stable, US local media said.
The shooting took place late at night within Orlando’s entertainment district, where hundreds of people were celebrating Halloween.
Orlando police chief Eric Smith told a press conference that the alleged gunman, a 17-year-old boy, had been arrested, CNN reported.
He is being interviewed by detectives, Mr Smith said.
“He pretty much walked into downtown, walked into the street and did what he did,” local US media Fox 13 Tampa Bay said, quoting the police chief.
The Orlando police department had previously said in a post on social media platform X that it was conducting a shooting investigation in Downtown Orlando. The department did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters for comment. REUTERS
