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VERY LATEST FROM THE ORANGE COUNTY COURTHOUSE. >> AS FAR AS VAMARI BEING LABELED A SENSELESS KILLER, THAT IS NOT HIM. DAVE: DELORES BOSTIC SAYS SHE HASN’T BEEN ABLE TO EAT OR SLEEP SINCE JAMES BACON WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON A WINTER GARDEN STREET EARLY THURSDAY MORNING AND THE MANHUNT FOR HER 13-YEAR-OLD STARTED. MS. BOSTIC: THEY CHARGED HIM WITH FIRST-DEGREE PREMEDITATED MURDER. IT WAS NOTHING PREMEDITATED. HAPPEN THAT WAY. CLASS A CUSTODY ORDER FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. DAVE: BOSTIC SPOKE OUT JUST AFTER A JUDGE ORDERED HER 13-YEAR-OLD HELD FOR 30 DAYS TO GIVE STATE PROSECUTORS TIME TO REVIEW THE CASE. MS. BOSTIC: I’M NOT MAKING MY SON TO BE A SAINT. HE HAD HIS ISSUES, TOO. DAVE: A WOMAN WHO DESCRIBED HERSELF AS THE AUNT OF THE 13-YEAR-OLD BY BLOOD AND THE AUNT TO THE VICTIM BECAUSE THEY’VE KNOWN ONE ANOTHER SO LONG SAYS SHE WISHES SOMEONE WOULD HAVE COME TO HER. MS. BOSTIC: IF I’D HAVE TALKED TO JAMES, HE’LL LISTEN TO ME. I TOLD VAMARI, IF HE’D COME TO ME, I WOULD HAVE GONE TO JAMES, AND EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. DAVE: WITHOUT OFFERING DETAILS, POLICE SAID SOMETHING HAD BEEN FESTERING BETWEEN 25-YEAR-OLD JAMES BACON AND 13-YEAR-OLD BOSTIC. ONCE BOSTIC WAS LABELED AS THE ONE WHO KILLED BACON, BOSTIC’S AUNT ARRANGED HIS SURRENDER. MS. BOSTIC: I BROUGHT HIM TO TURN HIMSELF IN, BECAUSE OF THE DANGER. HE MIGHT GET KILLED. DAVE: BACON’S MOTHER AND BOSTIC’S ARE BOTH SYMPATHETIC TO THE OTHER. >> I’M PRAYING FOR THE YOUNG MAN AND HIS FAMILY AS WELL. NOT ONLY DID I LOSE MY SON, THE OTHER CHILD’S MOTHER IS SUFFERING AS WELL. DAVE: ONE LOST HER CHILD FOREVER. THE OTHER FACES AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE. IN ORANGE COUN

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A 13-year-old accused of fatally shooting a man in Winter Garden overnight has turned himself in, officials said. Authorities said they received a report early Thursday morning that someone was shot. Officials said James Anthony Bacon, 25, was walking north on S. West Crown Point Road when he encountered 13-year-old Vamari D. Bostic. Officials said Bostic shot Bacon in the torso and fled the scene.Officers tried to preform CPR on Bacon before emergency medical services arrived and took him to the hospital.Officials were not able to revive Bacon.Bostic faces a charge of first-degree. Before he turned himself in, police said Bostic should be considered armed and dangerous. According to officials, the Bacon and Bostic have been involved in some type of a dispute for weeks."He was a good kid, he made a couple mistakes in his life, we all do. He was a great father, he was a great son to me, I just don't want anyone to say anything bad about my son," Tysha Brunson, Bacon's mother, said.Brunson arrived to the scene where her son was shot just before Bostic turned himself in."I'm not angry. I've forgiven the young man who did this, he was only 13 himself, he's a child. I was raised to not have hate in my heart for no one. I'm just going to keep him and his family in my prayers," Brunson said.Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Detective David Clarke, of the Winter Garden Police Department at 407-656-3636.