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Police Take in Custody Suspect in Shooting of Florida Officer

© AFP 2023 / Mandel Ngan Police stand behind a crime scene tape near the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub on in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.
Police stand behind a crime scene tape near the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub on in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Local authorities in the US state of Florida have captured Markeith Loyd, a suspect in the shooting death of an Orlando police officer and a pregnant woman, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, local authorities offered a $100,000 reward for any information about the location of the suspect.

​"We've got him! Markeith Loyd in OPD in custody. Details to come," the department said in a Twitter post on Tuesday.

Loyd is accused of shooting and killing Clayton in the parking lot of an Orlando-area Walmart store last week before hijacking a car and fleeing the scene. He is also suspected in the December shooting death of a pregnant woman, identified by media as his ex-girlfriend.

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