Active Leads Pursued After Shooting Leaves 2YO Dead, 2 Adults Injured In Melbourne Home

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Police said Bles’syn Lightner died in the shooting, which also injured a 54-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman, both of whom remain hospitalized and are related to the child.

"Investigators have confirmed that the victims were shot inside the residence,” police said in a statement. “While specific details cannot be released at this time due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, the scene has been thoroughly processed, and all available evidence is under review.”

At a news conference, Commander Shawn Eising said detectives are working the case around the clock.

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Active leads pursued after shooting inside Melbourne home leaves 2-year-old dead, 2 adults injured

The Melbourne Police Department says detectives continue to pursue active leads in a shooting that left a 2-year-old dead.

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Clifford Long, 37, was indicted for first-degree murder in the death of Bles'Syn Lightner along with two counts of attempted murder.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, Melbourne police responded around 10:40 p.m. Aug. 29 for a shooting.

When officers arrived, they found a 48-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. The victims were seriously injured but conscious. Cops then found Bles'Syn in a bedroom suffering from a gunshot wound to her forehead. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

There were also four other adults and two other children at home at the time, all of them uninjured. Bles'Syn had just celebrated her birthday four days before her death and lived at the home with her parents, who were at a concert at the time of the shooting, and her grandparents. There were no signs of forced entry at the home and the surviving victims initially denied knowing who shot them.

But in subsequent interviews, the male victim identified the shooter as Long, who is known as "Goof."

The surviving male said he saw Long shooting his granddaughter before he stepped over the girl's body and started firing at him, according to the affidavit.

Long later allegedly admitted to his brother that he killed the girl, saying "They wouldn't come off that money," indicating that the possible motive for the shooting was related to a robbery or drugs. He also allegedly told his brother that he didn't mean to kill Bles'Syn.

About a week after the shooting, Long and his brother allegedly stabbed a homeless man over 30 times and chopped off his finger with a machete over a drug-related dispute.

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