Updated Jan. 25 at 1:22 p.m. ET
A 21-year-old man has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder after police say he opened fire inside a Sebring, Fla., bank on Wednesday afternoon and killed five women.
“Zephen Allen Xaver knowingly and intentionally took the lives of five of our fellow community members,” Sebring police Chief Karl Hoglund said at a Thursday news conference. Fighting back tears, he said the town was mourning the loss of “our sisters, our mothers, our daughters and our coworkers.”
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