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The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after three women were shot and killed Monday night.
Deputies said they responded to a shooting at the Motel 6 on 68th Street Circle East in Bradenton around 9:15 p.m.
When they arrived, they found a 48-year-old woman dead from a gunshot wound.
Witnesses told deputies that 28-year-old Javontee Brice came to the motel and shot his mother for unknown reasons, then fled the area, possibly heading to Georgia, according to the sheriff’s office.
Around 9:40 p.m., deputies said they were called to another shooting in the 900 block of 26th Street Court East in Palmetto.
There, a 29-year-old woman had been shot while sitting inside a parked SUV. Palmetto police officers tried to save the woman’s life, however, she died about an hour later. Witnesses identified Brice as the shooter.
Deputies said they received information that another shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. at 4800 55th Street in Bradenton. Bradenton police officers said they learned that Brice had shot a woman before fleeing the area. The woman later died at a hospital.
Deputies issued a statewide “be on the lookout” for Brice’s vehicle. Multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in tracking Brice to Hamilton County, near the state line.
Manatee County deputies said Brice was shot and killed by Hamilton County deputies after he fired shots at them around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Detectives in Manatee County said they learned that Brice was traveling to Georga with the intent to kill another person.
