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GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of three people in Florida (all times local):
2:45 p.m.
Authorities say a man suspected in the slayings of three people in Florida has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler says 41-year-old Murray Lancaster's body was found Tuesday in a camper trailer by a SWAT team hours after the bodies of his girlfriend, her father and his ex-wife were found.
The sheriff's office said the bodies of Lancaster's girlfriend Valorie Short, her father, Waylin "Buddy" Short, and his ex-wife Erica Green were found early Tuesday.
Lancaster is the nephew of former Clay County Sheriff Scott Lancaster, and son of a county commissioner.
Lancaster had been arrested in March for domestic battery and resisting an officer after he and Buddy Short had a confrontation.
Court records indicate that Valorie Short told police Lancaster got angry because she had refused to give him his keys when he was drunk.
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12:30 p.m.
Florida authorities say the nephew of a former county sheriff is suspected of fatally shooting his girlfriend, her father and his ex-wife and is still at large.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler says 41-year-old Murray Lancaster is suspected of killing his girlfriend Valorie Short, her father, Welland "Buddy" Short, and his ex-wife Erica Green.
Lancaster is the nephew of former Clay County Sheriff Scott Lancaster, and son of a county commissioner.
Beseler says Murray Lancaster was involved in a previous domestic violence arrest. He says Lancaster abducted Valorie Short at gunpoint from the hair salon where she worked.
Police found the bodies of Short and her father at a country club.
Beseler says Lancaster next went to a landfill where his ex-wife worked and fatally shot her.
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12:03 p.m.
Authorities in northeast Florida are searching for a man suspected of fatally shooting two women and one man.
The Clay County Sheriff's Office says the bodies were found in Green Cove Springs on Tuesday morning.
No further identification of the victims was immediately available.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Mary Justino says the suspect is Murray Lancaster, who is believed to have fled the scene and is at large.
Authorities say they plan to update the situation at noon.
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