FLORIDA
\nA gunman opened fire on two television journalists reporting on a murder near Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, killing one and wounding the other before fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl and wounding her mother in a nearby home, authorities said.
\nA suspect identified as Keith Melvin Moses, 19, was arrested shortly after the assaults on the TV news team and the mother and daughter, about a block away from each other, in the Orlando suburb of Pine Hills, said Orange County Sheriff John Mina.
\nMoses was detained as a suspect in both those attacks and was formally charged in the killing hours earlier of a woman in her 20s, a shooting that the two journalists were covering when they came under fire, Mina said.
\nThe sheriff described the two journalists as a reporter and a photographer for central Florida cable TV outlet Spectrum News 13, which is owned by Charter Communications.
\nNone of victims was identified.
\nMina said the suspect was armed with a pistol when taken into custody and has a lengthy criminal record that included arrests on charges of firearms offenses aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft.
\nMina said no motive had been determined for any of Wednesday\u2019s shootings, but he said Moses was believed to have been an acquaintance of the first victim, who was shot while sitting in a car with the suspected gunman and another person.
\nThe sheriff said he did not know whether the two newsmen were targeted because they were journalists, adding that their automobile lacked the logos and markings typically seen on a news vehicle. They were in or near their vehicle when shot.
\n\u201cAs far as we know, he had no connection to the reporters and no connection to the mother or the 9-year old, and we don\u2019t know why he entered their home,\u201d the sheriff said.
\nHe said both the mother and the surviving journalist were in hospital in critical condition.
\n\u201cThis is another tragic reminder that journalism is a dangerous business and that criminals and those that are the subject of reporting can become violent toward reporters who are doing their jobs,\u201d said the National Press Club.
\nThe organization urged all reporters in the field to take extra precautions and redouble efforts to work safely.
\nWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre posted a message of condolence on Twitter.
\n\u201cOur hearts go out to the family of the journalist killed today and the crew member injured in Orange County, Florida, as well as the whole Spectrum News team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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