King Shooting Plot Targeted 1 Student, Deputies Say

As theat King High School continues, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies are now saying the teens may have been targeting a single student.

According to sheriff’s office spokeswoman Debbie Carter, the three teenage boys are not cooperating with the investigation. Even so, it is now believed “that the shooting was not to take place at the school, but that one individual that attends King High School was the intended target,” Carter wrote in a media release.

The shooting, she said, was to take place off campus.

The incident unfolded yesterday, Dec. 15, after Hillsborough deputies received information about a possible shooting plot. Acting on the tip, deputies pulled over a 2003 white Hyundai around 2 p.m. yesterday. The car was stopped at 6906 N. 56 St., the release said.

The three teens were detained and two guns were found inside the car. Deputies found a .22 caliber handgun in the back seat and a Rossi .38 handgun under the front passenger’s seat, the release said.

All three were taken into custody.

Arrested were Darius Anthony Fuches, 19, of 9861 Morris Glen in Tampa, and Marquez D-Magio O'Quendo, 18, of  8005 Peach Drive in Temple Terrace. A 15-year-old boy was also arrested and taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center. O'Quendo is a senior at King, the release said.

No further details are available at this time.