ORLANDO, Fla. — In the span of a little over a month, Central Florida has been left reeling by a spate of several gruesome gun deaths, many of them young children.
The shootings also have medical leaders pleading for gun violence to be treated like a nonpartisan public health crisis rather than a political issue.
In mid-February, a 3-year-old died in DeLand after shooting himself with a gun found inside a nightstand. Days later, Nathacha Augustin, 38, Spectrum News 13 Journalist Dylan Lyons, 24, and T’Yonna Major, 9, were killed during a February shooting spree in the Pine Hills community that also left two others wounded. A couple of weeks after that, a 4-year-old fatally shot himself in the head with a handgun in Kissimmee.
