11 shot in Florida drive-by, police say - NBC News

Eleven radical were shot, including 2 who were near successful captious condition, successful a drive-by shooting connected a Lakeland, Florida, thoroughfare Monday, constabulary said.

The shooting happened astir 3:43 p.m., erstwhile the 4 windows of a acheronian bluish Nissan sedan rolled down and astatine slightest 2 radical opened fire, Police Chief Sam Taylor said.

People connected some sides of the thoroughfare were struck, helium said.

“We person crushed to judge this was a targeted event, that it was not a random act,” Taylor said astatine a quality league Monday evening.

Officers recovered 3 radical who had been shot, Taylor said. Others were taken by backstage conveyance to a infirmary oregon showed up determination for treatment, helium said.

Police analyse a shooting successful Lakeland, Fla., connected Monday that injured 10 people.WFLA

Initially, constabulary believed determination were 10 victims successful all, but aboriginal learned an further idiosyncratic arrived astatine a infirmary with a gunshot wound, Taylor said Tuesday.

Those changeable were described arsenic men ages 20 to 35.

Two radical were successful captious information — 1 of whom had been changeable successful the abdomen, and the different who had been changeable successful the look and jaw area, Taylor said.

The 9 others had non-life-threatening injuries, helium said.

The conveyance was a acheronian bluish Nissan four-door sedan, Taylor said. The windows rolled down and radical wrong began shooting, helium said.

Taylor said Monday that radical fired from each window, but connected Tuesday said that determination were astatine slightest 4 radical successful the car, and astatine slightest 2 were shooting. “There whitethorn beryllium much that were progressive successful the shooting,” helium said.

A motive was nether investigation, constabulary said. There person been nary arrests, but Taylor said investigators person promising leads.

A conveyance believed to person been the Nissan was recovered Tuesday greeting successful Lakeland, Taylor said.

Lakeland is simply a metropolis of astir 112,000 astir 30 miles eastbound of Tampa.