Lakeland Florida Mass Shooting Leaves 10 Injured, 2 Critical

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(Lakeland, FL) -- At least ten people are wounded after a mass shooting in Lakeland Monday afternoon.

Lakeland police chief Sammy Taylor tells reporters that they got several calls of shots fired on Iowa Avenue near Plum Street around 3:45 . They arrived and found three victims on scene. Seven others had gotten rides to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, a couple of miles away. Two of the victims are in critical condition. Taylor says one is in surgery and another is about to go into surgery.

Taylor says all victims are men in their 20s and early 30s.

Surveillance video shows a dark-blue Nissan 4 door car drove by and four windows rolled down. Taylor says it appears there were four shooters in the car, firing at both sides of the street.

Taylor says he's not prepared to say whether drugs were involved, although officers found marijuana at the scene. The chief says police are on alert for some kind of "retaliatory attack." Taylor says he's been in Lakeland 34 years and this is something I've never seen happen here "ever."

Taylor says a rifle was discovered in one of the cars used to drive shooting victims to the hospital.

The chief says there's no reason for the public to be concerned. He believes the victims were targeted.

It could have been worse. A school bus let students off nearby just a minute before the shooting but Taylor says they had dispersed before the gunfire started.

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