SPPD Cornelius Whitfield

Man accused of killing 3 family members

FLORIDA- A man is accused of fatally shooting 3 of his family members and injuring another one.

Cornelius Whitfield was arrested on Wednesday for the deaths of his great-grandmother Sallie Hobbs Whitfield, 83, his grandmother Patricia Ann Whitfield Sharpe and his uncle Antonio Maurice Graham, 45.

According to St. Petersburg police, they responded to a call on Tuesday about a woman who had fled the scene and was shot. There was also a 2-year-old boy in the home, but was not harmed.

Police had been searching for Whitfield, who was wanted for first-degree murder and attempted murder charges from a shooting at a local apartment complex earlier this month, reports People.

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