3 Charged in ‘Massacre’ of 3 Friends During Florida Fishing Trip

Days after three friends who went for a nighttime fishing trip were found shot to death in rural Florida, the authorities said on Wednesday that they had arrested and charged three people responsible for the “massacre.”

Grady Judd, the sheriff of Polk County, Fla., said that Tony Wiggins, 26, shot and killed the three friends after he ran into one of them, Damion Tillman, in a Dollar General store.

Mr. Wiggins then told his brother to drive him and his girlfriend to a dirt road near a lake, where he had heard that Mr. Tillman planned to meet a friend, Keven Springfield, to fish, the sheriff said.

There, Mr. Wiggins punched Mr. Springfield and accused him of selling the engine from his truck, Sheriff Judd said.