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This Saturday, October 17, a gunman opened fire on the mass of people dressed as zombies gathered for the annual ZombiCon in downtown Fort Myers. Expavious Tyrell Taylor was the only fatality, but there were a few others wounded from the shooting. After shots rang out at 11:45 PM, chaos ensued as people fled from the scene.
ZombiCon is an annual zombie-themed charity street fest in its ninth year in and was expected to draw more than 20,000 people. As people continued down the streets, enjoying what ZombiCon had to offer, they heard gunshots and started running, fearing for lifes. Those wounded during the shooting were not hospitalized with any life-threatening injuries. Taylor was the only one to die of his gunshot wounds and he died at

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