Two British holidaymakers have been shot dead while on holiday in Florida.
James Cooper, 25, from Warwick and James Kouzaris, 24, from Northampton, were found by police in Sarasota, on the south-western coast, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with their murder.
The two men were discovered by officers who were called to a street in the north of the city at around 3am.
Both men were pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds, a Sarasota Police spokesman said.
One was found lying on the ground outside a government-assisted housing block. The second was lying just 50ft away on the other side of the road.
They had been staying on the upmarket island city of Longboat Key, about 12 miles from the less affluent area where they were killed. They had been due to spend three weeks in Sarasota.
Captain Paul Sutton of Sarasota police said there was no known association between the suspect and the victims. The area where they were found is known to be largely residential and not frequented by tourists.
“We are still investigating why they would have been in this area,” he said. “It is very unusual to find tourists or visitors in this area. It is a residential neighbourhood with no shops and no bars. We do not know what brought them here at 3am.”