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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the most recent drive-by shooting, which took place at a home in the area of Chestnut Road and West Parker Street in West Lakeland early Wednesday, led investigators back to three teenage suspects who were aged 14, 16, and 17 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When canvassing the scene, detectives found nine bullet casings and damage to a vehicle parked at the home. Four people were inside at the time of the shooting, but no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One victim told detectives he and his friend stopped associating with the suspects, which \u201cdidn\u2019t sit well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another victim friend told deputies they had survived two other drive-by shootings, one on Aug. 9 and another on Sep. 20. That deputies had already been investigating.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u201cThe same three suspects were out there putting innocent lives at risk, motivated by revenge\u2014in essence because their feelings were hurt that the victims didn\u2019t want to be around them anymore,\u201d Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n –\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bryann Charles, 17, from Lakeland. Each suspect was charged with\u00a0Attempted 2nd Degree Murder (F1, 12-counts), Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling (F2, 3-counts), Shooting from a Vehicle (F2, 3-counts), Shooting in a Residential Area (M1, 3-counts), Improper Exhibition of a Firearm (M1, 3-counts), Possession of a Firearm by a Person Under 18 (M1, 3-counts), and Culpable Negligence (M2, 3-counts).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey wanted to act like some big bad-boys, and now they\u2019re charged with big bad-boy crimes,\u201d Sheriff Judd added<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Lakeland teens were arrested in connection to a series of Polk County drive-by shootings \u201cmotivated by revenge,\u201d according to authorities. The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the most recent… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[6150],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-3-lakeland-teens-arrested-for-drive-by-shootings-motivated-by-revenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
–\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Aryann Charles, 16, from Lakeland (Bryann and Aryann are\u00a0brothers).
–\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Delfino Perez-Garcia, 14, from Lakeland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/384454168_697805792382793_3984038344862155668_n.jpg\")
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