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Georgia Student Identified As One Of Two Victim’s Killed In Miami Beach Spring Break Shootings

<p>One of the men who was killed during spring break in Miami Beach has been identified as <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;georgia&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&percnt;5B&percnt;5D&equals;post&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&percnt;5B&percnt;5D&equals;list&lowbar;posts&amp&semi;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;z2h3so&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MTM4NTQyNTU0Mi4xNjc5NDE3MjE3&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY3OTQxNzIxNS4xLjAuMTY3OTQxNzIxNS4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Georgia<&sol;strong><&sol;a> college student Jordan Idahosa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Idahosa&comma; whose brother Sammy described him as a &&num;8220&semi;warrior&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;scholar&comma;&&num;8221&semi; was a student at South Georgia State College before falling victim to gun violence over the weekend&comma; as reported by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;miami-beach-curfew&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">One Of Two Spring Break Shooting Victims Identified As Georgia College Student<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The 21-year-old was shot dead Friday night on South Beach’s Ocean Drive&comma; the first of two fatal shootings over the weekend in the spring break destination&comma; according to <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;walb&period;com&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;20&sol;south-ga-state-college-student-shot-killed-while-visiting-miami-beach-spring-break&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">WALB<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jordan was a special guy&period; He went from being homeschooled to being a scholar&comma;” Jordan’s brother&comma; Sammy Idahosa&comma; told the news outlet&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He&&num;8217&semi;d added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s millions and millions of memories of me and Jordan&period; We grew up three years apart&comma; and we practically did everything together&period; He’s like my twin brother&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1638153885662564353" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Friend&comma; Brother Describe Spring Break Shooting Victim A &&num;8220&semi;Warrior&&num;8221&semi; and A &&num;8220&semi;Scholar&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>He went on to describe his brother as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;warrior” who &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;still is &lpar;with us&rpar; in spirit&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jordan was the first Idahosa to depart from us&period; It doesn’t feel real&comma;” Sammy said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>A friend of Jordan&&num;8217&semi;s told the outlet about the moment his friend was fatally shot&comma; leaving another person injured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;miami-beach-curfew&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">RELATED&colon; &lpar;VIDEO&rpar; Miami Beach Imposes Curfew After Two Fatal Shootings&comma; Huge Groups Of Rowdy Spring Break Crowds<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My friend had called me to see where I was at&comma; and I turned around for like 10 seconds&period; After that&comma; all you heard was gunshots&period; I really didn’t know who it was&period; I couldn’t see anything&comma;” Javon Johnson told WALB&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1637756066283831298" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Police Call Shooting An Isolated Incident&comma; Another Spring Breaker Shot And Killed In Separate Incident<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Authorities have since called the shooting an isolated incident&comma; and have arrested a person of interest who is reportedly cooperating with investigators&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; another spring breaker was shot to death with a stolen handgun two days later at Ocean Drive and 11th Street&comma; disturbing video of which has circulated on social media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dontavious Polk&comma; 24&comma; has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after he reportedly fled from the crime scene and tossing the gun in doing so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police have called that shooting&comma; a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;targeted and isolated incident&period;” Polk allegedly fired at least nine times before running off&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber denounced the violence&comma; saying &&num;8220&semi;we don&&num;8217&semi;t want spring break in our city&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1637659868843724800" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We don’t ask for spring break in our city&period; We don’t want spring break in our city&period; It’s too rowdy&comma; it brings too much disorder and it’s simply too difficult to police&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>On Sunday&comma; the mayor imposed a curfew and banned the sale of alcohol after a certain hour in an effort to quell the violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is clear that even an unprecedented police presence could not prevent these incidents from occurring&comma;” Gelber said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The volume of people in our city&comma; the unruly nature of too many&comma; and the presence of guns has created a peril that cannot go unchecked&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>This is a developing story&comma; check in with <em><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;em> for more updates as they come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"116600" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;georgia-student-identified-as-one-of-two-in-miami-beach-spring-break-shootings&sol;" data-secure&equals;"40a47892f0"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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