Florida Shooting Puts 2 Officers in Hospital in Critical Condition, Suspect Later Killed in Hotel Shootout

Florida Shooting Puts 2 Officers in Hospital in Critical Condition, Suspect Later Killed in Hotel Shootout
Emergency vehicles near the site of a shooting that critically injured two police officers in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 4, 2023, in a still from video. WFTV via AP
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ORLANDO, Fla.—A suspect in the shooting of two Florida police officers was fatally shot by SWAT team members Saturday several hours later after he barricaded himself in a hotel in Orlando’s tourist district, the culmination of a manhunt across central Florida, police officials said.

The Orlando Police Department officers stopped a vehicle around 11 p.m. Friday as part of an investigation of a Miami homicide and were shot by the suspect in the car, Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith said during a press conference early Saturday.