teenager who died after being shot<\/a> on Wednesday. Her death is still being investigated. <\/p>\n“I just want to know why,” Bradford’s mother, Rodnesha Speed, said. “I don’t know how to move on from this, but I will make sure that she gets the justice that she deserves.”<\/p>\n
Here’s what we know happened. Sheriff deputies responded to an apartment complex off Old Cheney Highway around 5 p.m. on Wednesday for a reported shooting. Detrakerian Conyers, who lives close by, heard it happen. <\/p>\n
“I just heard, boom, boom, boom,” he said. “When I came back outside later, there were cop cars everywhere.”<\/p>\n
Deputies found Bradford, but she later died at the hospital. The sheriff’s office told WESH 2 all parties stayed at the scene after the shooting. <\/p>\n
“The investigation is still in its early stages, and we have no further information to release at this time. We will provide additional updates as they become available,” a statement from the sheriff’s office reads.<\/p>\n
“It breaks my heart that I couldn’t be there for her,” Speed said. <\/p>\n
Speed wants her daughter to be remembered for her love and her humor. She said Bradford graduated high school early and worked at a nursing home. Speed said her daughter was set to start college in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n
“She was just a happy teenager who was a go-getter,” Speed said. <\/p>\n
It remains unclear if a suspect has been taken into custody. <\/p>\n
WESH 2 has reached out for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida mother calls for justice after 17-year-old daughter is shot, killed ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43256,17444,5507,28,30,44770,29,3985,660,33237,146057,2631,146059,215,146058,40963,2486,918],"class_list":["post-358029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-boom","tag-daughter","tag-death","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-mother","tag-florida-news","tag-justice","tag-office","tag-orange-county-sheriff","tag-rodnesha-speed","tag-sheriff","tag-sheriff-deputy","tag-shooting","tag-skyler-bradford","tag-teenager","tag-wednesday","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358029","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=358029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n