Suspect in Times Square shooting arrested in Florida
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The alleged gunman who opened fire in Times Square on Saturday, hitting three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, was taken into custody Wednesday, police announced. Farrakhan Muhammad, 31, was apprehended by U.S. Marshals in Florida, CBS New York reported.
Muhammad was taken into custody in a McDonald's parking lot in Starke, Florida, just outside of Jacksonville. Police said he was eating lunch in the car with a woman who police believe to be his girlfriend. They said Muhammad did not resist arrest. Police said they used surveillance video and eyewitness accounts to track Muhammed and his girlfriend. They said video appeared to show Muhammed heading to a building near Times Square where police believe he and his girlfriend were staying at the time. On Tuesday, the pair was spotted at a Walmart in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Police said the two bought supplies there, including dog food for the two dogs that were traveling with them.Authorities made two gruesome discoveries Tuesday after a Missouri woman walked into a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, officials said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.