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article ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Update (10/25): The Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Tuesday that a 16-year-old girl was found dead outside a home Monday night in Hiawassee. The girl was identified as Deshayla Sanaa Ferguson. Original story A woman has died after a shooting Monday night in Orange County, according to authorities. Deputies responded to a neighborhood in Hiawassee late Monday and found a woman dead outside the home. Deputies said the woman had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. Details on the circumstances of the shooting nor potential suspect information was not immediately released, […]

Orlando teen shot and killed was reportedly missing for two months A 16-year-old girl who was shot and killed Monday night had been missing since August, authorities say ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has identified a 16-year-old girl as the person killed in an Orlando shooting Monday night. De’Shayla Sanaa Ferguson was found shot outside a home on Broken Pine Circle around 7 p.m. The teen had been reported missing for over two months when she was found dead in a driveway. “One pop. I heard one shot,” said Oswaldo Bonilla. Multiple neighbors recall hearing that one […]

10-year-old Florida girl runs away from possible abduction attempt Surveillance video shared by authorities in Fort Lauderdale show a young girl running away after a man attempted to abduct here, authorities said. Detectives believe the suspect briefly follows the girl before turning away (located in upper right corner of video). FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police in Florida are searching for a man who reportedly tried to kidnap a child on two occasions last week in Fort Lauderdale. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department released surveillance video online showing the victim – a 10-year-old girl – running away from the possible abductor […]

St. Pete standoff involving child ends in father’s arrest Elizabeth Fry reports ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – St. Petersburg police said a man is in custody after arming himself with a weapon, taking a 3-year-old child from a home, crashing a pickup truck, and barricading himself inside for hours. Before 5 a.m., they said the man – identified as 32-year-old Matthew Perkins – was in custody and the child is safe. The SWAT situation stemmed from a domestic situation at a home in the 1900 block of Norfolk Street North in St. Pete. It started at 11:30 p.m. Monday. A view […]

Daytona Beach investigators give update on 31-year-old cold case murder The man authorities have indicted in the 1991 murder of Linda Little reportedly confessed to the crime, according to Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young. VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man who is serving a life sentence for a 2008 murder of a Titusville woman, was indicted by a grand jury after he reportedly confessed to killing another woman in Daytona Beach, authorities said during a news conference Tuesday.  Michael Townson, 53, of Orlando is accused of killing Linda Lois Little, more than 31 years ago. Little was reported missing […]