LAND O'LAKES, Fla. — Three people, including a 6-year-old girl, were shot during a targeted home invasion in Land O'Lakes on Friday, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said.
All three victims sustained critical injuries, according to the sheriff's office.
Sheriff Nocco said the shooting and robbery occurred around 5 a.m. in the Lake Padgett area.
The 60-year-old father of the main resident of the home got into a confrontation with the four suspects outside around 4:40 a.m. As the confrontation escalated, the suspects shot the man in the head.
Sheriff Nocco said that the four suspects then walked into the house and entered the master bedroom, where they then found the 38-year-old girlfriend of the main resident and her 6-year-old daughter asleep. Both the woman and her daughter were then shot in the head by the suspects.
He added that the main resident the suspects were targeting was not at home during the invasion. Nocco said the man had an altercation at a strip club in Tampa and then a road rage incident on the way home from that incident last week with the suspects.
The sheriff's office said that since those two incidents, there has been ongoing communication between the suspects and the man who is the main resident at the Lake Padgett home, which culminated in Friday's shooting.
All three victims are in critical condition in local hospitals.
Deputies combed the neighborhood Friday, searching for more answers into the shooting.
Surveillance cameras from neighbor s could hold the key to finding the shooters.
Loida Gant lives a few doors down. Her house is covered in cameras.
"As soon as I moved in, I put a lot of devices around here to make sure we're doing okay. It's terrible, very terrible what's going on," Gant said.
Gant said she's usually up early, bit Friday morning, an unusual dream changed her sleep pattern.
"I had a weird dream about a gunshot. And I get up in the morning, looking at my family to make sure they're safe. Then I said I'm going back to bed," she recalled.
Later that morning, her husband surprised her.
"My husband said 'Did you hear they had gunshots around here?' I said then I wasn't crazy because I was thinking I was dreaming."
Gant says she feels good knowing law enforcement has spent the day in the neighborhood. She says she hopes her camera footage might be able to bring some justice to the victims.
The sheriff's office said there is no threat to the public. Anyone with information is asked to call the PSO Crime Tips Line at 1-800-706-2488.
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This is a developing story and will be updated when more information is released.
