Marion County, Florida, Sheriff Billy Woods held a press conference describing the arrest of two suspects in connection with the March 30, 2023, shooting deaths of three teenagers in rural Marion County.
FOX News reported that one of the suspects is 12 years old and the other is 17.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is still searching for a possible third suspect.
The Sheriff says the killings were gang-related. He stressed that although a gun was used in the murders, the gun is not to blame.
Sheriff Woods said, “Some of you media want to blame the one thing that has no ability or the capacity to commit the crime itself, and that’s the gun. These individuals committed the crime.”
Sheriff Woods went on to say that society has failed inasmuch as “[society does] not hold our juveniles accountable; we minimize their actions.”
He then went on to express his outrage that certain members of the media will not publish photos of juveniles who have been arrested for heinous crimes.
Woods added, “We need to hold them accountable, and then hold them, so we can change them.”
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