OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A 29-year-old man has been arrested after three men were found shot to death outside a home in the Indian Point subdivision near Kissimmee on Saturday afternoon, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to 296 Indian Point Circle around 12:14 p.m. and discovered the victims lying in front of the residence, adding all three suffered from gunshot wounds.
During a news conference on Sunday, Osceola County Sheriff Christopher Blackmon said the victims were tourists who were stuck at their rental property due to car trouble. Originally a group of four, one of them had left the day before, and two of the remaining three were brothers, he said.
Those two were identified as Robert Lewis Kraft, 70, of Holland, Michigan, and his brother Douglas Joseph Kraft, 68, of Columbus, Ohio, whom Blackmon said was the twin of the fourth person who had left earlier. The third victim was identified as James John Puchan, 69, of Columbus, Ohio.
Deputies said Ahmad Jihad Bojeh was quickly located and ran to his home nextdoor to the rental property, where he was then arrested. Two weapons were found inside of the home and work remains underway to determine which if either of them were used in the shooting, according to the sheriff.
Bojeh was booked into the Osceola County jail and will face three counts of first-degree murder, investigators said.
“As of right now, we have nothing. Just looks like a random- but again, the investigation, you know, it’s ongoing. It’s fresh, it’s new. We’re just a little bit over 24 hours into it, so we’re trying to gather the facts,” Blackmon said. “(...) I can tell you he was a threat to the neighborhood all the time. We had a lot of calls for service on this person in that area, so he was a known person, a frequent flier to the sheriff’s office.”
Bojeh in 2021 was arrested and accused of shooting at a person and random cars in a Kissimmee gas station’s parking lot, but court records show he was later “acquitted by reason of insanity.”
The investigation remains active.
At his first appearance in court Sunday, probable cause was found to hold Bojeh on no bond pursuant to the murder charges he faces. Bojeh was appointed a public defender and did not speak at any point.
Watch Blackmon’s news conference in the video player below or by clicking here.
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