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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida arrested two men over the weekend and a third on Monday in connection with a Memorial Day shooting along a busy beach promenade that left nine people injured.
Hollywood Police Department detectives arrested Ariel Cardan Paul on Sunday night and Lionel Jean Charles Jr. on Monday afternoon, the agency said in a statement. On Saturday, Hollywood detectives and the US Marshal’s Task Force arrested Jordan Burton.
Jean-Charles, Paul and Burton were identified by police as the shooters, the agency said.
They will each be charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder, eight counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of carrying a concealed firearm.
Police said two men involved in the altercation that led to the shooting, Morgan Desluch and Keshaun Stewart, both 18, were arrested last week on firearms charges. Five guns were recovered, one stolen in the Miami area and another in Texas, they said.
Police and witnesses say the shooting began late Memorial Day afternoon after a fight broke out in front of a busy strip of stores on Hollywood’s oceanfront Broadwalk, south of Fort Lauderdale. Bystanders frantically ran for cover as shots rang out.
The police said that two of the nine injured remain in the hospital.
It was not immediately known whether those arrested have retained lawyers who can speak on their behalf.
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