Sleeping 6-year-old and mom shot in head during Florida home invasion, cops say

A mom and her 6-year-old daughter were shot in the head as they slept during a home invasion, a Florida sheriff said.

Four suspects invaded the home in Land O’Lakes just before 5 a.m. on March 3, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference.

Nocco said a man who lives in the home had been in an “altercation” with the suspects at a strip club in Tampa about a week earlier. The man and the suspects were then involved in a road rage incident, he said.

The altercation was a “verbal argument that escalated into a physical altercation,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said in an email.

At around 4:40 a.m. on March 3, the man’s 60-year-old father arrived at the house and found the four suspects outside, Nocco said. They got into a confrontation and the suspects shot the father in the head in the driveway, Nocco said.

The suspects then went into the house and started “screaming,” looking for the man they had been in the altercation with in Tampa, Nocco said. He was not home at the time.

The suspects went into the home’s master bedroom and shot the man’s girlfriend and their 6-year-old daughter in the head as they slept in bed, Nocco said.

All three of the victims survived but were in critical condition after the targeted attack, he said.

No arrests have been made, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.

Land O’Lakes is about 20 miles north of Tampa.

This story was originally published March 3, 2023 at 11:00 AM with the headline "Sleeping 6-year-old and mom shot in head during Florida home invasion, cops say."