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Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods held a press conference on Friday announcing the arrest of two suspects, a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old, in the recent murders of three teenagers and smacked down a reporter over a question aimed at blaming the gun for the heinous deed.
“The gun laws we have in place didn’t prevent it,” Woods testily told a reporter asking about the gun used in the commission of the crime. “Neither will any new ones. Because here’s the fact. The bad guy is going to get the gun no matter what laws you have in place.”
“There are individuals out there viewing… who want to blame the one thing that has no ability or the capacity to commit the crime itself, and that’s the gun,” the sheriff said during the press conference. “These individuals committed the crime.”
Florida authorities are still searching for a third 16-year-old suspect, according to Fox 35 Orlando.
The two boys arrested on charges of murdering three teenagers in central Florida robbed a man at gunpoint, hours before their victims were found shot dead, police said.
They obtained guns from car thefts, he said, but declined to comment on the number of weapons used in the killings.
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