Florida Woman Arrested After Allegedly Shooting and Killing Former State Senator's Son

A Florida woman has been arrested and is facing first-degree felony murder charges after she allegedly fatally shot the son of a former state senator. 

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A Florida woman has been arrested and is facing first-degree felony murder charges after she allegedly fatally shot the son of a former state senator. 

NBC Miami reports that 24-year-old Lakoria Shamece Washington is accused of shooting and killing 23-year-old Jason Campbell, the child of former Democratic Florida Senate member Daphne Campbell. Lakoria was apprehended by U.S. Marshalls on Monday in Port Orange, and will be extradited to Miami-Dade County. The family of the victim said Campbell was fatally shot while he slept in an apartment, which belonged to a woman he was seeing.

The shooting took place on June 1, when Washington allegedly forced herself into the Miami apartment with a gun. When authorities arrived at the scene, Campbell was found dead in the parking lot of the apartment complex with a trail of blood leading back to the apartment. 

“I’m speechless,” said Daphne Campbell. “I’ve been crying, I don’t eat, I can’t sleep. Because my baby went down just innocently. A senseless, senseless, senseless death.”

Surveillance footage showed a woman now identified as Washington entering the apartment building shortly before the shooting took place.

Washington was arrested on Monday following a weeks-long manhunt. Both Campbell’s family and authorities believe Washington was an ex of Jason’s, and that she had supposedly spent the night with him the day before he was shot. The Miami Herald reports the woman who Campbell was seeing hid in a laundry room when the shooting took place. When police discovered her in the apartment, she explained what happened and said she heard the shot that killed Campbell.

In an emotional Facebook post on June 2, Daphne Campbell expressed her grief upon learning she had lost her son. "Carry a child for nine months with difficulties and end up having C-Section and after 23 years, you received bad news someone shots, kills your son. I did not know a mother should bury a child rather a child should bury their parents,” she wrote. “Mommy loves you so so much! Rest in peace and I will see you one day! Baby boy Jason RIP!! You will never [be] forgotten."

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