Four people were killed, including a baby shot in their mother’s arms, after an attack in a home in the Lakeland, Florida, area that sparked a shootout with police on Sunday morning.
Authorities were first called to the home Saturday night at about 7:30 p.m. when a woman called about a suspicious man who said to her that God told him to speak to one of her daughters, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Authorities arrived within six minutes but could not find the man or his vehicle.
“We heard another volley [of gunfire], and a woman scream and a baby whimper,” Judd said. “Our lieutenant tried to make entry into the front of the house and it was barricaded.” “We discovered a man, a woman and an infant in the mother's arms all shot to death,” Judd said. “We went to the house directly behind and found another lady shot to death.”An 11-year-old girl was shot multiple times in the exchange and rushed to Tampa General Hospital. Her condition is unclear but Judd said she was “doing well” and speaking with detectives.
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