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2 deputies shot at resort near Disney
Three suspects were involved in the shooting, official says.
Walter Pacheco and Henry Pierson Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writers
Posted May 30, 2007, 1:25 PM EDT
Scores of law enforcement converged this morning at a resort near Walt Disney World where two deputies were shot.
Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Solomons confirmed that one deputy was shot in the arm and the other in the vest shortly after 11 a.m. at the Caribe Royale Resort at 8101 World Center Drive.
Both deputies were airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. The sheriff's office has not released the names of the injured deputies.
Solomons said three suspects were involved in the shooting and all have been arrested.
The deputies may have interrupted an auto burglary in progress when the shooting occurred.
Law enforcement officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Florida Highway Patrol, Orlando Police Department, and SWAT Team members, among others, gathered outside the resort where some of the state's top officials, including Attorney General Bill McCollum, will be meeting to discuss homicide rates, arrest and incarceration and poverty and violence.