14-05-2025
2-year-old shot in gunfight outside Florida store, deputies say
COCOA, Fla. (WFLA)— Approximately 50 rounds were fired in a shooting that left a 2-year-old hospitalized, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office announced.
Around 1:23 p.m. on Tuesday, a woman and a man walked into the Cocoa Meat and Produce with a 2-year-old in a stroller when a black Mercedes pulled up and three suspects jumped out of the vehicle.
According to Sheriff Wayne Ivey, at about 1:26 p.m., the man and woman came out of the store pushing the stroller, and the three people who had gotten out of the car engaged them.
'As the shooting started to take place, over 50 rounds were fired from all different directions. One of those rounds struck the 2-year-old female baby in the pelvic area,' Sheriff Wayne Ivey said.
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The baby was taken to a nearby hospital, where she is in stable condition.
Sheriff Ivey said, 'The shooting is apparently over some type of ongoing feud they are having.'
The man who came out of the store is in custody, and deputies are searching for the three who were in the black Mercedes.
'There were approximately 50 rounds fired in broad open daylight, between four subjects, who had a baby in between them. All four of them are shooting back and forth with each other, not only putting the baby at risk, but others that are in the area around,' Sheriff Wayne Ivey said.
At this time, deputies don't know who shot first.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to call the Brevard County Sheriff's Office or Crimeline at 1-800-423-8477.
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