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Brandon Goode, 18, and his British-born girlfriend, Alexandria Hollinghurst, 17

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UPDATE: Teen couple's suicide notes triggered cop to pull over pair who then gunned him down: Senseless or set up?

The young, attractive couple were apparently stopped by the felled Florida officer for suspicious behavior sometime after 4 a.m. Saturday.

This touched off a tragic chain of events in which the Orlando-area police officer is dead and so are the teenage couple.

The unexplained incident appears to be a police killing, followed by a double-suicide, according to police quoted by the New York Daily News.



The question remains, why?

Brandon Goode, 18, and his British-born girlfriend, Alexandria Hollinghurst, 17, were found dead in Windermere, Fla., early Saturday, about a block away from where police officer Robert German was fatally wounded, authorities told the newspaper.

It appears the young couple shot the 31-year-old cop during a suspicious behavior stop sometime before 4 a.m. and then turned the gun on themselves in what Windermere Police Chief David Ogden called a "senseless tragedy."

"Officer German was a good cop," Ogden told the Daily News. "He was one of the finest police officers we've had."

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