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On January 23, 2019, at around 12:30 pm, five women four employees and a customer were shot and killed at the
Zephen Allen Xaver, age 21Florida Bank Shooting: Victims Are Identified as Details of 5 Killings Emerge
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SunTrust Bank
SunTrust Banks, Inc. was an American bank holding company with SunTrust Bank as its largest subsidiary and assets of US$199 billion as of March 31, 2018. The bank's most direct corporate parent was established in 1891 in Atlanta, where it was ...
in Sebring, Florida. After being named a suspect, 21-year-old Zephen Xaver turned himself in to police. He has pleaded not guilty to five murders. On March 14, 2023, he pled guilty in the shooting.
Shooting
At around 12:30 pm, a witness says he saw a man pacing back and forth inside the bank with five people lying side by side on the floor. Shots were later heard, and a man phoned the police at 12:36 pm ET, and told responders that he had shot five people. SWAT arrived, trying to negotiate to get the barricaded suspect to leave the bank. When those negotiations failed, members of the SWAT team entered the bank by ramming an armored vehicle through its glass front doors. The suspect eventually surrendered. The lone survivor of the shooting was a bank employee who had been in the bank's break room just before the gunman walked in. The employee escaped out the back door when gunshots first rang out; after getting outside, he called911
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Victims
Five women were discovered by police, shot execution style in their heads and backs. They were identified as: * Debra Cook, age 54, employee * Marisol Lopez, 55, employee * Jessica Montague, 31, employee * Cynthia Watson, 65, customer * Ana Piñon-Williams, 37, employeePerpetrator
Zephen Allen Xaver, age 21Florida Bank Shooting: Victims Are Identified as Details of 5 Killings Emerge/ref> was identified as the perpetrator after surrendering to officers. He was identified as a former Florida Department of Corrections correctional officer trainee, with the Avon Park Correctional Institution near the Avon Park Air Force Range but resigned on January 9, 2019. Xaver was charged with five counts of capital murder is being held by police without bond. He was appointed a public defender as he had no income or assets. On February 22, he entered a plea of not guilty in the case against him. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty. On March 14, 2023, he pled guilty in the shooting.
See also
* List of mass shootings in the United States in 2019References
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