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BOB, WHY DID THE SUSPECT GO BACK FOR THE GUN? BOB: THAT IS A VERY GOOD QUESTION. THE FAMILY TOLD INVESTIGATORS THE STEPSON HAD BEEN ACTING STRANGELY FOR THE LAST MONTH AND HE TURNED HOSTILE LAST NIGHT AFTER THE MOM COMPLAINED ABOUT BURN FOOD. INVESTIGATORS WERE CLEAR FROM THE APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED; BUT WORD OF THE MURDER IS SURPRISING TO MANY PEOPLE HERE. P>> IT'S PRETTY CRAZY. YOU DON'T REALLY HEAR ABOUT THAT STUFF HAPPENING HERE OFTEN. BOB: THIS HAPPENED AT THE WISPER PALMS APARTMENTS ON SOUTH ALAFAYA TRAIL BETWEEN WATERFORD LAKES AND AVALON PARK. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE KILLER IS 20-YEAR-OLD TE’QUANN SKEETE, SHOWN HERE IN A PREVIOUS MUG SHOT. THE VICTIM, HIS STEPFATHER, 36-YEAR-OLD MARCUS ROSA. IN THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATORS SAY SKEETE WAS COOKING SOMETHING ON THE STOVE MONDAY AFTERNOON, BUT IT WAS BURNING. SKEETE'S MOTHER TOLD DETECTIVES "TE'QUANN WAS NICELY ASKED TO TURN ON THE VENT FAN TO HELP WITH THE SMOKE." THEN, THEY SAY, SKEETE GOT HOSTILE AND AGGRESSIVE, SLAPPED HIS STEPFATHER BEFORE GOING UPSTAIRS AND GETTING A GUN. WITNESSES TOLD INVESTIGATORS ROSA WAS ABLE TO GET THE GUN FROM SKEETE, AND SEVERAL HOURS PASSED, BUT THEN SKEETE ALLEGEDLY CONFRONTED ROSA AGAIN AND PULLED OUT A SECOND GUN, SHOOTING HIS STEPFATHER 5 TIMES AND KILLING HIM. SOME HERE SAID THEY NEVER KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. >> I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING. I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL SOMEONE CALLED ME. BOB: SKEETE STAYED AT THE APARTMENT AND DEPUTIES SAY HE CLAIMED HIS STEPFATHER HAD A GUN, TOO, AND THAT "MARCUS DID NOT RESPECT HIM AND WOULD ALWAYS TAMPER WITH HIS FOOD." FAMILY MEMBERS TOLD THE INVESTIGATORS SKEETE HAD SHOWN HATRED FOR HIS STEPFATHER AND HAD BEEN ACTING STRANGELY SINCE HE CAME BACK TO ORLANDO AFTER SPENDING TIME IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. DEPUTIES SAY DURING THE ARREST HE ALSO COMPLAINED OF ANXIETY, SO HE WAS TAKEN TO A. HE WILL BE BROUGHT TO JAIL ONCE RELEASED FROM TREATMENT

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