ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man who fatally shot an Orange County middle school student as a teen was sentenced Monday to 29 years in prison, court records show.
Manuel Rosado was arrested back in 2019, when he was 16 years old, in the shooting death of 14-year-old Antony Lorenzo Reid, a student at Memorial Middle School.
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Deputies said Reid was found on April 20, 2019, near J R Street and Star Bright Drive in Orange County and transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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According to investigators, the victim had planned to sell an illegal firearm to Rosado but when the two met up, the suspect “decided he was not going to pay, and he shot and killed Reid in the process of robbing him.”
Both Rosado and Reid were armed, deputies said.
Rosado was sentenced after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
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