A man dressed in full body armor and wielding an automatic weapon allegedly went on an early-morning shooting 'rampage' in Polk County, Florida, on Sunday, killing four people, including a mother and her baby.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the suspect allegedly told investigators the victims"begged for their lives, and I killed him anyway."
The sheriff said deputies responded to the 911 call within six minutes, but the man was nowhere to be found.Damage to the back of a Polk County, Fla., house is pictured in an image provided by the Polk County Sheriff's Office showing where a Polk sheriff's lieutenant entered the house and exchanged fire with a shooting suspect in Lakeland, Fla., Sept. 5, 2021.
Judd said a sheriff's lieutenant initially tried to enter the front door, but it was barricaded. When the lieutenant went to the back of the house, a gunfight erupted. Judd said that after the suspect was arrested, deputies and Lakeland police officers heard sounds coming from inside the house and shouted out orders for people to come out. He said deputies briefly entered the home and found an 11-year-old girl shot at least seven times but still conscious.
Deputies found the fourth victim, a woman who was fatally shot in a nearby house on the same property.
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