A 16-year-old boy died after a shooting in Tamarac on New Year’s Eve that also wounded a woman, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies and Tamarac Fire Rescue were called to a home in the 7900 block of of Northwest 71st Avenue shortly after 10 p.m. and found the injured teen, Orlando Wedderburn. A woman who was also at the scene had been grazed by a bullet, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Orlando was taken by helicopter to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, where he died.
The shooter stayed at the scene, claimed self-defense during questioning and was then released, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday afternoon. The Sheriff’s Office has not identified the shooter.
The case will be presented to the State Attorney’s Office to determine whether charges will be filed once detectives finish the investigation.
