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<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Zephen Xaver police said, &#8216;senselessly murdered&#8217; at least five people after walking into a local bank branch in Florida and opened fire</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The 21-year-old correctional officer trainee, on entering Wednesday inside SunTrust Bank in Sebring on Wednesday afternoon, ;started shooting people</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Officers arrived on scene at 12.36pm after Xaver o 911 ;calmly phoned 911 to report the shooting to police and give himself up</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">A SWAT team entered the bank to negotiate ;and Xaver eventually surrendered</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Video shows him being perp-walked through the parking lot in handcuffs</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Officials confirmed five fatalities at a press conference later in the day</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The victims&#8217; names have not been released pending family notification ;</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Authorities say Xaver was a correctional officer trainee hired by the Avon Park Correctional Institution in Nov, but he resigned on Jan 9 ; ;</span></strong></h6>
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<h6><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Zephen-Xaver.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Zephen Xaver" width="580" height="595"><strong>Zephen Xaver [photo], has been identified as the gunman who allegedly opened fire inside a Florida bank on Wednesday afternoon, killing five people. ; at the time of his arrest, Xaver was wearing a shirt depicting four Grim Reapers on horseback</strong></h6>
<div>Five people are dead after a 21-year-old gunman opened fire inside a Florida bank Wednesday afternoon. ; <br>Officers of te ;Sebring Police Department responded to the SunTrust Bank branch located at 1901 US 27 South around 12.36pm after a suspect, identified as Zephen Xaver, called 911 and reported that he had fired shots inside the bank.<br><iframe src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?o=1&;p=48&;l=ur1&;category=truck&;banner=1478RWP4MP8JHE54KFR2&;f=ifr&;linkID=411898d6315e60c1644ebed71e77f529&;t=konniemomen0a-20&;tracking_id=konniemomen0a-20" width="728" height="90" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe>After a standoff with officers and SWAT agents, Xaver eventually surrendered to authorities. Police later ;posted video showing Xaver being perp-walked in handcuffs through the parking lot to a police vehicle.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SunTrust-Bank-branch-in-Sebring-Fla-1.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="SunTrust Bank branch in Sebring, Fla 1" width="580" height="371">Police<strong> ;responded to the SunTrust Bank branch in Sebring around lunch time after a gunman allegedly called 911 and reported that he had fired shots inside the bank</strong></h6>
<div>Authorities say Xaver was a correctional officer trainee hired by the Avon Park Correctional Institution in November, but he resigned on January 9. Officials with the Florida Department of Corrections said he had &#8216;no discipline&#8217; with the department. ;</div>
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<div>Authorities confirmed during a press conference that at least five people had been &#8216;senselessly murdered&#8217;. ; ;</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">When police rrested 21-year-old Zephen Xaver he was wearing a shirt depicting four Grim Reapers on horseback.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Zephen-Xaver-perp-walk-2.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Zephen Xaver perp walk 2" width="580" height="498"> ;  ;  ; Video showed murder suspect Xaver being perp-walked through the parking lot the Sebring branch of SunTrust Bank after he surrendered on Wednesday</strong></h6>
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<blockquote class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore" cite="https://www.facebook.com/tampabaynews/videos/608982289556793/"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tampabaynews/videos/608982289556793/">SunTrust Bank suspect walked out in handcuffs</a><p></p>
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<p>SUSPECT WALKED OUT | Video shows Zephen Xaver, 21, being walked out in handcuffs following a standoff at a SunTrust Bank in Sebring that left at least five dead. What we know >;>; http://bit.ly/2Duitj7</p>
<p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tampabaynews/">ABC Action News &#8211; WFTS &#8211; Tampa Bay</a> on Wednesday, 23 January 2019</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The identities of the victims have not been released pending notification of next of kin. ;<br>It&#8217;s unclear if those killed consists of bank employees or customers inside the bank during the incident. ;</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/police-activity-outside-SunTrust-Bank-branch-in-Sebring-Fla-1.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="police activity outside SunTrust Bank branch in Sebring, Fla 1" width="580" height="300"> ;  ;  ;  ; The Sebring Police Dept said on Facebook that officers responded to the bank located at 1901 US 27 South around 12.36pm</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/police-activity-outside-SunTrust-Bank-branch-in-Sebring-Fla-3.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="police activity outside SunTrust Bank branch in Sebring, Fla 3" width="580" height="381">Authorities roll out armoured vehicle during the suspect&#8217;s standoff with the SWAT team after he self-reported that he had fired shots inside the bank</strong></h6>
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<div>Sebring police and deputies from the ;Highlands County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to the scene and established a perimeter. ;<br>The large police presence was recorded in video from witnesses and local news helicopters.<br>&#8216;After negotiations to try to get the barricaded subject to exit the bank were not successful, the HCSO SWAT team entered the bank and continued the negotiations,&#8217; the Sebring police said. ;<br>&#8216;The suspect eventually surrendered to the HCSO SWAT team.&#8217;<br>A witness on the scene, Stefan Roehrig, told <a class="class" href="https://www.wfla.com/1719447039" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WFLA</a>: &#8216;At first [SWAT] hooked some cables up to it [bank door], tried to rip the doors off. The door handles came right off. Then they just drove the SWAT machine right through the door.&#8217; ;<br>Roehrig, who said police &#8216;slammed [the suspect] pretty good&#8217; before escorting him outside the bank, recorded cellphone video of Xaver being taken into custody. ; ;<br>&#8216;He was young, very young,&#8217; Roehrig said. ;</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Officials confirmed that there were multiple injuries, but it&#8217;s unclear how man people were shot in the incident. ;Police didn&#8217;t release information regarding the conditions of those injured<br>&#8216;We are sorry to learn that we have at least five victims, people who were senselessly murdered as a result of his act in this bank,&#8217; ;Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund said at a press conference Wednesday evening.<br>&#8216;This has been a tragic day for our community. We’ve suffered a significant loss at the hands of a senseless criminal doing a senseless crime.</div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Zephen-Xaver-4.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Zephen Xaver 4" width="580" height="588">Police have not released motives for trainee correctional Officer Zephen Xaver [photo], after he shot and killed five bank inside a local bank on Wednesday afternoon, in Sebring, Fla</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;We ask that you please keep them in your prayers, keep them in your thoughts,&#8217; he said if the victims&#8217; loved ones. ;<br>&#8216;Help Sebring and our community stay strong.&#8217; ;<br>The sheriff&#8217;s office asked co-workers and family members of anyone who was inside the bank during the shooting should gather at the Inn on the Lakes on Gulfview Road. ;<br>Gov Ron DeSantis traveled to Highlands County to attend the police press conference on Wednesday afternoon. ;<br>&#8216;Obviously this is an individual that needs to face very swift and exacting justice,&#8217; he said of Xaver. ;<br>No motive has been revealed. ;</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"> ; ;<img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ron-DeSantis-1.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Ron DeSantis 1" width="580" height="370"> ;  ;  ;  ;  ; ;<strong>&#8220;This is an individual who needs to face very swift and exacting justice,&#8221; s</strong>aid ;<strong>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis [center], speaking alongside Sebring law enforcement at a press conference on Wednesday night ; ;</strong></h6>
<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis was in the region for an infrastructure tour and traveled to Sebring after news of the shooting broke. He said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would assist Sebring police and the Highlands sheriff&#8217;s office in any way possible. &#8220;This is an individual who needs to face very swift and exacting justice,&#8221; DeSantis added.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Karl-Hoglund-left-and-Ron-Desantis-right-1.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Karl Hoglund [left] and Ron Desantis [right] 1" width="580" height="354"> ;  ;  ; ;<strong>&#8220;We are sorry to learn that we have at least five victims, people who were senselessly murdered as a result of his act in this bank,&#8221; ; &#8211; Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund ;standing next to Gov Desantis</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund standing next to Gov Desantis, ; hung his head with sadness during the news conference: &#8220;We ask that you please keep them in your prayers, keep them in your thoughts,&#8221; Chief Hoglund said of the victims&#8217; families. <br>&#8216;Help Sebring and our community stay strong&#8217;</div>
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Correctional officer trainee, 21, fatally shoots at five people inside Florida bank! Zephen Xaver walked into a SunTrust Bank branch, opened fire, before calmly calling 911 to report himself
