More Heartbreak For Florida: Teen Victims Of New Club Shooting Massacre Revealed
Chaos erupted early Monday morning when a group of teenagers were gunned down outside a Fort Myers, Florida nightclub. Two teens tragically died during the heinous attack, and RadarOnline.com has all the details.
More than a dozen people were injured after gunfire rang out in front of a Florida nightclub on Monday morning.
More than a dozen were wounded and Ste'fan Strawder, 18, and Sean Archilles, 14, were tragically killed as they were leaving the teen event at Club Blu in Fort Myers.
"I've been better – I just need to make sure my family's okay right now," Strawder's cousin, Napoleon Rayner, told Radar.
Stawder was shot in the shoulder and pronounced dead at 3:30 a.m. at Lee Memorial Hospital, his mother told, News-Press.com. The young victim, a high school senior, had a promising basketball career.
His 19-year-old sister, Sharrelle, was shot in the leg during the incident and is expected to recover.
Archilles also died in the heinous attack. His father, Jean, told The News Press that he had received the harrowing news from the boy's mother at around 1 a.m. He was also a popular student at Royal Palm Exceptional School.
Two Killed And At Least 15 Wounded At Night Club Shooting In Ft. Myers, FL
"The staff and students at Royal Palm School were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sean Archilles. Sean was the kind of young man who could brighten any room with his outgoing personality and contagious smile. He was a friend to all and will be deeply missed by his Royal Palm family," the school's principal said in a statement.
Two Killed And At Least 15 Wounded At Night Club Shooting In Ft. Myers, FL
At least 17 people, aged 12 through 27, were injured, NBC reports. Out of those, four people were hospitalized until late Monday morning. Two of those injuries were critical.
Investigations are still underway, but officials have confirmed that the attack was not terror-related. The massacre come just a month after 49 were killed after a gunman, Omar Mateen, opened fired in the popular gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando.