US gunman returns to the crime scene, kills TV reporter and a girl
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Miami: A man gunned down a television reporter and a 9-year-old girl hours after allegedly killing a woman in the same scene in Florida on Wednesday.
Keith Melvin Moses, 19, who is currently in custody, believed to be behind the gruesome killings, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said.
News agency AFP reported that the attacks had taken place in Pine Hills which is a suburb west of Orlando in central Florida.
Reports said that a 20-year-old woman was killed there on Wednesday at around 11 am.
Hours later a team from Spectrum News 13 arrived there to cover the murder, AFP reported based on police inputs.
Keith Melvin Moses arrived at the scene shortly after 4 and opened fire killing a reporter and wounding the camera man of the TV channel.
Afterwards the gunman entered a home in the vicinity and shot a woman and her 9-year-old daughter. The girl died in the hospital, the report said.
"We have detained the person believed to be responsible for the murder this morning, as well as the shootings this afternoon," Mina reportedly said.
Police said Moses had a ‘lengthy criminal history’ which included gun charges, assault with deadly weapon, aggravated battery and burglary charges.
The suspect knew the woman victim but he had no ‘ties’ to others died in the shooting, police said.