ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Two toddlers found shot Friday evening in Orange County died at a hospital, while a man who was their father was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
At 6:30 p.m. deputies responded to the 4400 block of South Rio Grande Avenue over a report of a man with a gun who\u2019d been chasing a woman, according to an emailed report on the incident from the agency.<\/p>\n
The deputies found the woman uninjured, but she said she was worried about the safety of her children in a nearby apartment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs deputies approached the apartment, they heard several gunshots,\u201d the email stated. \u201cThey made entry and found two young children \u2014 ages 1 and 2 years old \u2014 who had been shot. Deputies rendered aid on scene and the children were transported to the hospital where, tragically, they both died from their injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man who was found dead was also in the apartment. No further details were provided.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hearts are aching as we share this news with you tonight,\u201d the email stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Two toddlers found shot Friday evening in Orange County died at a hospital, while a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-298856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}