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Two people were taken to the hospital on Friday afternoon after a shooting in Delray Beach, police said. The shooting took place at the Village Square Apartment & Condo Building in the 700 block of Village Square Circle. Delray Beach police said the call came in around 3:15 p.m., and that both victims are female, in their late teens. They said the injuries are not life threatening. People at the apartment complex claimed they heard multiple gunshots, according to police.

A 16-year-old DeSoto County teen was arrested after being accused of shooting a victim with metal BB gun pellets. According to the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office Omar Villa-Suarez is accused of injuring someone after shooting them with a BB gun. The sheriff’s office said the person had multiple injuries. Deputies say Villa-Suarez fled the scene in a white 2007 Ford Expedition. They followed the SUV along SR-31 and initiated a traffic stop. DCSO said Villa-Suarez drove through multiple stop signs.

An attorney from Aventura was arrested Thursday on accusations that he beat his wife, and his wife told police that this wasn’t the first time it’s happened, authorities said. According to an arrest report, Andrew Zelmanowitz’s wife went to the Aventura police station on West Country Club Drive Thursday and told officers that her husband has “continuously beaten her with it escalating on 9/11/2024.” Police said the victim claimed that Zelmanowitz, 42, became irate around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday after she

A woman is wanted following a five-vehicle wreck Thursday afternoon on Lillian Highway in Escambia County. It happened around 1:30 p.m. on Lillian Highway at Bauer Road. According to Florida Highway Patrol, a 32-year-old Foley woman was driving her pickup truck east on Lillian Highway as three other vehicles were stopped in traffic. A fifth vehicle was traveling west on Lillian Highway. FHP says the Foley woman’s pickup truck collided with the rear of a stopped vehicle, causing a chain

Photo by: wsvn  A cyclist is hospitalized after being involved in a hit-and-run in Oakland Park. Around 6:30 a.m., Friday, Deputies responded to a hit-and-run crash near Northwest Sixth Avenue and West Oakland Park Boulevard where they say a man was struck by a vehicle while riding a bike. When they arrived they located the victim and he was transported to a nearby hospital. Investigators are now looking for the driver, who they say fled the scene in a gray

Photo by: nbc-2 Two people died after a red SUV crashed into a building in Immokalee on Friday morning. The driver of the SUV at fault was 24-year-old Walner Nelson of Immokalee, who was arrested and faces DUI manslaughter charges. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the SUV crashed into the Physical Therapy Center of Immokalee building at 212 S First St. FHP said the SUV traveled off the roadway and entered the parking lot before colliding with two unoccupied

Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that happened in the Low Country Pl. area of Wesley Chapel around 6:15 p.m. Thursday evening. PCSO said that a preliminary investigation revealed an argument between two men who knew each other escalated and the men exchanged gunfire. One of the men was shot and taken to a local hospital. The suspect left in a car before deputies arrived on scene. PCSO said this appears to be an isolated incident and there

One person passed away during a construction accident at Tampa International Airport on July 31. Officials say he tried escaping the excavator before the fatal fall. According to a statement from TPA, airport police received reports about the incident around 7:41 a.m. Officials said the accident involved a construction equipment operator working as part of the Airside A shuttle guideway renovation project. Some construction equipment reportedly fell off the shuttle track with the operator still inside. Officials said that Cesar

Margaret A. Gissome, 35, of Belle Glade was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of child abuse. A report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office notes that Gissome is accused of punching a child in the face for providing wrong answers to homework. The child sustained visible injuries to her eyes and lip. Gissome is also accused of shaking the child. Gissome was released from the Palm Beach County Jail Friday on $2,500 bond and was ordered not

Video of an aggressive throw by a Miami-Dade Schools police officer shows a Miami Edison Senior High School student being tossed in the air head over heels before landing on the ground. The incident, all captured on cellphone video, occurred when 15-year-old Ikeria Tate said officers were responding to a fight outside the Little Haiti school’s locker rooms after a football game on Wednesday. “He should’ve never (done) that,” Tate said. “He had grabbed me and slammed me on the

The man accused of driving the wrong way and then fleeing the scene of a crash that killed popular TikTok personality Ali Spice and two others pleaded no contest Friday to charges that could send him to prison for life. Thomas Petry, 55, of Orange City, was driving a pickup truck westbound in the eastbound lane on State Road 44 just east of Interstate 4 on Dec. 11, 2022, when the truck collided head-on with an Infiniti Q50, according to police. Three passengers in the Infiniti

Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in West Little River in northwest Miami-Dade on Friday morning. Miami-Dade Police officials said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert happened around 6:30 a.m. in the 900 block Northwest 80th Street. Once there, first responders found the victim and took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. He later died. Police did not immediately share more information about a potential motive or suspect. Officials were investigating another shooting