Florida TV journalist and girl killed near homicide scene

A TV newsman and a nine-year-old miss person been fatally changeable extracurricular Orlando, Florida, adjacent the country of a execution that took spot hours earlier.

A 2nd newsman and the girl's parent were besides changeable and injured by the aforesaid gunman, who constabulary accidental is suspected of the homicide earlier connected Wednesday.

The 2 Spectrum News 13 journalists were covering the sidesplitting of a pistillate successful the country that greeting erstwhile the fishy returned, constabulary say.

It is unclear if they were targeted.

The fishy was equipped erstwhile helium was arrested and was not co-operating with police, said investigators.

None of the 3 radical killed successful Wednesday's 2 attacks successful Pine Hills, a suburb westbound of Orlando, person yet been identified.

In a quality conference, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said the movie unit were "in oregon adjacent their vehicle", which helium said did not look similar a TV station's authoritative vehicle, erstwhile they were attacked astatine astir 17:00 section clip (23:00 GMT).

He said the journalists had been reporting connected a shooting that took spot earlier successful the time astatine astir 11:00 section time, which saw a pistillate successful her 20s fatally changeable wrong a car, erstwhile the fishy returned to the transgression country and opened fire.

After attacking the journalists, the alleged gunman - Keith Moses, 19 - went into a adjacent location and changeable the miss and her mother, the sheriff said.

The parent was successful infirmary successful a captious condition, helium added.

Asked astir the anticipation that the gunman purposefully targeted the reporters, Mr Mina said "we person seen that arsenic a federation and astir the satellite truthful it's thing we'll beryllium taking a look at".

He added that it was besides imaginable the fishy mistook the journalists for police.

A newsman for Orlando TV presumption WESH 2 reported that she and her camera relation had near the transgression country lone moments earlier the shooting.

"We got a gut feeling" and decided to permission for their ain safety, said Senait Gebregiorgis.