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Authorities said they were forced to take down an 11-year-old boy with a Taser inside a Pompano Beach apartment, but his mother said the responding deputies’ actions were unnecessary and have had caused lasting effects on her son. Surveillance video from inside the unit along Ocean Boulevard captured the moment Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies deployed the Taser, then approached and surrounded the child, Jan. 20. Investigators said the boy had threatened himself and his 10-year-old sister. Speaking with 7News on

Lakeland police identified two men who are wanted after a shootout at an apartment complex Monday that ended in the deaths of a 3-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man. Warrants were issued Thursday for the arrests of Kevarius Green, 30, and Demarius Wilson, 22. Investigators said both men were involved in the shooting at 1850 Cambridge Cove Circle on Monday night, which killed Jaquez Norton, 3, and Kemarius Wilson, 22, who is Demarius Wilson’s brother. Officers said Green was the gunman responsible for both deaths.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers are asking the public for information after a hit-and-run crash Wednesday morning in Orange County left a pedestrian injured. The crash occurred around 6:24 a.m. on West Oak Ridge Road, west of Brookgreen Avenue, troopers said. According to a statement from FHP, a vehicle traveling in an unknown direction struck a 56-year-old Orlando woman walking in an undetermined direction on West Oak Ridge Road. The vehicle then left the scene as the Orlando woman — identified

wo men are dead after a shooting Thursday morning in a Highlands County hospital, according to deputies. Deputies responded around 11:26 a.m. to a shooting reported at AdventHealth Sebring, the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office said on social media. A 66-year-old Sebring man had brought his adult son to the hospital, with the sheriff’s office reporting the father was having difficulties with his “somewhat combative” son. After the son was placed in a mental health room in the ER, the father —

A Florida woman was arrested last week after allegedly trying to sell her daughter outside of a local business, according to the Palatka Police Department. In a release on Wednesday, police said that the woman — Jessica Woods, 33 — had been loitering around the business with her 18-month-old daughter on March 5. “Woods had been observed around the business with her daughter for a few days,” the release says. “An anonymous citizen made contact with Woods and asked if

FHP RELEASE: Gadsden County Troopers are currently working a delayed fatal traffic crash that happened on Earnest Road just south of Flat Creek Road in Gadsden County. The car was traveling south on Earnest Road. For unknown reasons, the car left the roadway to the right and began to overturn. The driver of the car was ejected from the car. The car came to rest in the west grass ditch of Earnest Road facing northwest. The driver was transported to

Photo by: Polk County Fire Rescue A plane crashed in Polk County Thursday afternoon, according to fire officials. Polk County Fire Rescue said the crash occurred around 2:48 p.m. near Lake Buffum Road in Fort Meade. Fire Rescue officials said the aircraft was engulfed in flames when they arrived. The occupants in the plane got out on their own and were evaluated for injuries. Polk County Fire Rescue said they were not transported to the hospital. “Due to quick thinking

A man is in law enforcement custody after authorities found three people dead and a fourth injured on Thursday in Lafayette County. The acts of violence happened at two different locations, according to Lafayette County Sheriff Brian Lamb. “There is one suspect in custody and there [is] believed to be no continued threat to the community,” the department wrote in a press release. The first crime scene authorities discovered was on Southwest Willow Street in Mayo, according to LCSO. A

A head-on collision on Chancey Road north of Correia Drive claimed the life of a driver Wednesday evening and left two others seriously injured. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) reported that a northbound Honda Fit, driven by a 44-year-old Apollo Beach woman, failed to negotiate a curve and crossed the centerline shortly before 7:20 pm. The Fit collided nearly head-on with a southbound Honda Civic driven by a 43-year-old Zephyrhills woman. The driver of the Fit sustained fatal injuries at

A woman in her 20s was shot by two juveniles while trying to break up a fight in an Orange County neighborhood Thursday night, deputies said. The incident reportedly happened shortly before 9 p.m. at the intersection of Livewood Oaks Drive and Redwood Oaks Drive near Pine Hills. The woman told deputies she was trying to separate the parties when two of them pulled out guns and started shooting, officials said. She was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening

A man is dead after diving near a reef off the shore of Juno Beach. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that on Wednesday, Jupiter Police Department and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission personnel responded to the area of Captain Mike’s reef, located about six miles offshore of Juno Beach, for a missing diver. According to the sheriff’s office, law enforcement learned that a dive charter from the Jupiter Diver Center went out for a dive tour