World News 31-12-1999 Five Murdered In Florida Shooting Spree who: Killer Silvio Leyva what: Murders five fellow employees at hotel where: Florida, USA when: Yesterday snippet: "A gunman shot dead five people yesterday in a rampage at the hotel where he worked," reports The Sun today. "The maniac walked into the Raddison Bay Harbor Inn, a Florida holiday resort popular with Brits, and blasted four colleagues as trippers fled." Police do not yet know the motive of 36 year-old Silvio Leyva, who stole a car and killed the driver to make his escape but was gave himself up to police shortly afterwards and was charged with five counts of murder. It`s the latest in a grizzly line of American massacres this year - in April twelve children and a teacher were killed at a school in Denver, in July a stockbroker killed his wife and children and nine others in Atlanta, and last month a gunman in Hawaii killed seven men just 24 hours before two people were killed in a similar incident in Seattle. [... more]

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