A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with second degree murder in a shooting on a crowded street in Tampa, Florida, early Sunday morning, leaving two people dead and 16 others injured, authorities said.
The shooting started after a dispute between two groups broke out as hundreds of people were filing out of the bars and nightclubs in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood, just before 3 a.m. A 14-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man were killed, Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said.
It was one of several shootings that took place amid celebrations across the country this weekend ahead of Halloween. "See something, say something applies to anywhere," Bercaw said. "You could be in a mall. You could be in a movie theater. You could be in Ybor. Wherever you see something suspicious, you need to let us know immediately.""People were out on Saturday night. It's three o'clock, the bars let out, there's hundreds in the street," Bercaw said.
"We will assist in the investigation and stand ready to vigorously prosecute anyone who resorts to senseless gun violence and harms our community," Lopez said Sunday afternoon. "This is a very complicated scene but what we know, at this point, it was a disturbance or a fight between two groups," adding "in this fight between two groups, we had hundreds of innocent people involved that were in the way," Bercaw said.
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