Sarasota, mass shooting
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Police: 7 dead in separate parts of Florida likely linked
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UPDATE — 2/12/2026 at 11:50 a.m.: The victims of the shooting in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida, have been identified. Olga Greinert, 49, Florita Stolyar, 66, Anatoly Ioffe, 61, and Yaroslav Blyudoy,
While the sheriff's office could not confirm the number of victims, officials said, "all persons are accounted for" and there were no survivors.
Firefighters in Sarasota County saved someone on the 17th floor of a construction site by using a tower crane to get them down.
The other person killed was a family friend, according to a cousin. The man who killed them all shot himself to death, police say.
A shooting that left four victims and the suspect dead in a Sarasota gated community was linked to a separate homicide in Florida, authorities said.
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