2 killed, more than a dozen injured in shooting outside Florida nightclub
Police say two people were killed and at least a dozen more were injured Monday in a shooting outside a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, NBC News reports. Shots were fired in the parking lot of Club Blu bar around 12:30 a.m. ET, officials say. One suspect is in custody but "the Fort Myers Police Department and Lee County Sheriff’s Office are actively canvassing the area looking for other persons who may be involved in this incident," police said in a statement.
The incident comes a little more than a month after a gunman killed 49 people in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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