Florida Treatment Plant Security Guard Shoots Colleague

Often the target of vandalism and theft, some water and wastewater treatment plants employ robust security measures. In Florida this month, those measures seem to have backfired.

“Authorities say a Florida security guard shot another security guard after a dispute at a water treatment plant,” reported the Los Angeles Times.

According to the report, the shooting took place on a Sunday morning in early December outside of the Hollywood Water Treatment Plant. While police were questioning the shooter, no charges were filed immediately.

“Police received the call just after 7 a.m. Sunday morning and arrived on scene to find a male security guard lying on the ground with a gunshot wound, said Officer Christian Lata, a spokesperson for the Hollywood Police Department,” the Sun-Sentinel reported. “Officers found another security guard close by and arrested him, Lata said. Both men were armed.”

The gunshot victim was taken to a local hospital and the severity of his injuries was not clear at first. Both security guards were privately hired, not employees of the city.

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