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STEWART: A WOMAN IS DEAD TONIGHT AND ORLANDO POLICE SAY IT WAS A
10-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO SHOT HER.
WESH TWO’S AMANDA DUKES JOINS US LIVERO FM ORLANDO POLICE
HEADQUARTERS WITH AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT LED UP TO THE SHOOTING,
AMANDA?
AMANDA: WELL, ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE MOTHER OF A
10-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT WITANH OTHER
WOMAN WHEN SHE HANDED HER YOUNG DAUGHTER A BAG WITH A GUN IN IT.
ORLANDO POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE WINDSOR COVE APARTMENTS ON
MERCY DRIVE JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT MONDAY.
WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND 41-YEAR-OLD LASHUN DENISE
RODGERS SUFFERING FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND.
SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
POLICE SAY IN AN AREA LOCATED BETWEEN TWO OF THE APARTMENT
COMPLEX BUILDINGS, RODGERS HAD GOTTEN INTO A PHYSICAL FIGHT
WITH THIS WOMAN,31 YR OLD LAKRISHA ISAAC.
INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED AT SOME POINT DURING THE FIGHT, ISAAC
HANDED HER 10 YR OLD DAUGHTER A BAG WITH A FIREARM IN IT AND IT
WAS THE TEN-YEAR-OLD WHO FIRED TWO ROUNDS, STRIKING AND KILLING
RODGERS.
LOVED ONES PUT THESE FLOWERS ON THE SIDEWALK AND WROTE MESSAGES,
FOR RODGERS WHOM THEY CALLED BY THE NICKNAME BONE.
>> I’M TRIPPING ON IT MAN.
I MUST SAY.
IT’S VERY DEVASTATING.
BECAUSE IT WAS FOR REALLY, FOR NOTHING.
AMANDA: A WOMAN NAMED NANA WHO SAID THE VICTIM, IS HER COUSIN,
DIDN’T WANT US TO SHOW HER ON CAMERA BUT SAID THE VICTIM WAS
JOYFUL AND LIVED VERY CLOSE, TO WHERE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED.
SHE DOESN’T BELIEVE THERE’S ANY WAY TO JUSTIFY THE KILLING.
>> IT COULDN’T BE SELF-DEFENSE.
YOUR CHILD SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE HOUSE AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT,
OR EVEN WHEN YOU’RE DEALING WITH ANYTHING.
AMANDABO: TH ISAAC, AND HER DAUGHTER WERE TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY.
THE CHILD WAS TURNED OVER TO DCF.
ISAAC FACES CHARGES OF MANSLAUGHTER CULPABLE
NEGLIGENCE, CHILD NEGLECT, CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY
OF A MINOR, AND AGGRATEDAV ASSAULT WITH A FIREARM
-- FIREARM.
POLICE TELL ME POTENTIAL CHARGES REGARDING THE JUVENILE’S
INVOLVEMENT IN THIS FATAL SHOOTING HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO
THE STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFI FCEOR REVIEW.
HER IDENTITY IS BEING WITHELD BECAUSE SHE IS A MOR