Police: 2 men suspected in Florida shooting caught in Texas

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Two suspects in a taking pictures exterior a Florida bar that left one particular person useless and 6 wounded earlier this month have been arrested Monday in Texas, officers stated.

The U.S. Marshal’s Workplace Fugitive Activity Drive arrested the 2 males, Josue Clavel, 22, and Damaso Bravo, 32, in Brownsville, Texas, in keeping with a Tampa police information launch.

The lads had been hiding at a lodge with their girlfriends, officers stated, including the group had $20,000 in money.

“I can’t stress sufficient how members of the Tampa Police Division have labored tirelessly across the clock to seek out these accountable and produce justice to those victims,” Chief Mary O’Connor stated.

Within the early morning hours of Oct. 9, Clavel and Bravo obtained right into a combat with a number of individuals on the LIT Cigar and Martini Lounge in downtown Tampa, police stated. The combat moved exterior, and Clavel and Bravo fired a number of pictures, putting seven individuals and killing one, a 30-year-old man visiting from California for a marriage, officers stated.

Tampa police detectives additionally recognized Clavel and Bravo as members of the Latin Kings gang. Florida officers stated they’re working with authorities in Texas to have the lads extradited again to Tampa.