Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Teens Held in Fla. Shooting Spree > HAINES CITY, Fla. (AP) -- Three teen-age boys in ski > masks went on a one-hour shooting rampage, killing two > and wounding seven other people, including five > relatives who were gunned down in their motel room > during a family reunion, authorities say. > > The suspects, high school students ages 16 and 17, were > arrested and charged late Thursday in the shootings and > in a separate slaying on Sunday, investigators said. > > Investigators said the motive was unclear. Nothing was > taken from the victims. > > One of the wounded, a 10-year-old girl shot in the > motel room, was in critical condition. The others were > in good condition. > > The rampage took place in three central Florida > communities. > > The shootings began Thursday night when gunmen jumped > from a car and opened fire on a couple who had stopped > their car at a mailbox in Davenport. The driver was > wounded. > > Within about a hour, two people were reported shot in a > vehicle at a stop sign in Dundee. Christy Large, 21, > was killed, and another person in the car was wounded. > > Around the same time, there was a knock on the door of > a motel room door near Haines City, and a masked gunman > opened fire on five family members from Hinesville, Ga. > -- two girls, ages 10 and 15, and their mother, aunt > and uncle. The family had just checked in for a > reunion. > > ``He opened the door expecting to see relatives and was > met by a hail of gunfire and was hit a couple of > times,'' Sheriff Lawrence Crow said. > > Ten-year-old Vickie Smith was shot in the head and > chest as she lay on a bed. > > Her wounded 15-year-old sister gave a description of > the suspects' vehicle, and deputies stopped a car > around midnight. One teen-ager was arrested then, the > two others later. > > Sylathum Antwan Streeter, 16, Curtis Shuler 16, and > Victor Lester 17, were charged with murder and > attempted murder. They were also charged in the slaying > Sunday of a man in Haines City near the entrance to a > golf and tennis resort. > > The State Attorney's Office will decide if they will be > tried as adults. > > ``We have a generation of kids with no conscience that > shoot people down,'' Crow said. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
