[BREAKING] Florida Home Depot Shooting: Woman Fatally Shot, 2 Others Injured as Police Arrest Suspect

Florida authorities reported that a woman was fatally shot and two others were injured at a Home Depot store in the northwestern part of the state on Friday after a gunman opened fire.

Deputies and police officers who arrived at the scene after reports of the incident were called in had discovered the female victim who was fatally shot by the suspect. In a social media post, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said that the other two victims, who survived, were found to have only minor injuries.

Tragic Home Depot Shooting

Law enforcement personnel were quickly able to take the gunman into official custody shortly after the tragic incident took place, as per WFLX. The sheriff's office also said that the gunman and the deceased victim knew each other.

The sheriff's office added that the shooting was not random after initially investigating the scene of the crime. Additionally, the Home Depot store's spokesman said that the woman who was fatally shot was actually a third-party contractor for the firm, according to the Washington Post.

The incident also comes after two women, including a Florida bartender, were also killed in another shooting at a train crossing. Employees from the Dos Gatos bar located in Jacksonville, Florida, identified one of the victims as 28-year-old Paige Pringle.

Investigators working with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) noted that the female victim's body was found at around 1:40 a.m. on Wednesday inside an SUV along Hendricks Avenue in San Marco with multiple gunshot wounds. The second victim, who authorities have not yet identified, was found outside of the same SUV, alive, but later died in the hospital due to her injuries.

In a statement, JSO Sergeant Steve Rudlaff said that the driver of the vehicle was stopped at the railroad tracks because a train was going to pass. Shortly after, gunshots were heard, and the SUV crashed into the moving train, said People.

Workers said that Pringle had dropped off a gift for the owner of the bar that she works for as well as another employee before the shooting occurred. The bar posted on Facebook, saying that one of their own was stolen from them, and expressed their condolences to their families.

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