A 15-year-old Florida girl who allegedly shot and killed her mother’s fiancé Wednesday morning in Escambia County is being charged with first-degree murder.
The sheriff identified the girl as Sunshine Grace James. She’s also charged with attempted murder for shooting at her mother.
The shooting happened around 7 a.m. at the Essex Pointe Apartments on E Johnson Ave. as the mother and her fiancé were in bed.
“Based on the investigation, we believe it started out to be a relatively normal — and even friendly — morning in the household,” Sheriff Chip Simmons said Wednesday afternoon. “Then all of a sudden [James] pulls out a handgun and shoots at her mother — narrowly missing her — and also shoots at her mother’s fiancé, striking him.”
The mother’s fiancé, a 35-year-old man, died at the hospital. The mother was grazed in the head by bullets.
“According to the mother, there was no argument, no disturbance,” Sheriff Simmons said. “She just pulled out a handgun and started firing at them while they were in bed.”
Sheriff Simmons says James fled the scene in her parents’ car following the shooting and headed to her boyfriend’s house. That’s when Escambia County deputies located her in the 1200-block of Rio Grande Circle and took her into custody.
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