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Douglas Kraft, 68, and James Puchan, 68, of Columbus and Galena, respectively, were fatally shot Jan. 17 near Kissimmee, Florida, in what families said in a statement was a "random, tragic act." Kraft's brother – Douglas Kraft, 70, of Holland, Michigan – was also killed in the shooting.

Authorities arrested Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, on three counts of murder, Dispatch news partner NBC4/WCMH-TV reported.

The three men were staying in an Airbnb to attend Kissimmee's Mecum Car Show, according to the families' statement. While they were waiting for help after "rental car trouble" and preparing to travel home, they were "being observed from a distance by an unknown individual who was well-known to local law enforcement."

"There were no known interactions between the men and this individual prior to the event; they were then approached and senselessly murdered," the families' statement reads. "This was a random, tragic act."

Deputies were called around noon on Jan. 17 to reports of shots fired in the Indian Point subdivision near Kissimmee, NBC4/WCMH-TV reported. Authorities found the three men dead from gunshot wounds in front of a residence in the 200 block of Indian Point Circle.

Not long after, law enforcement detained Bojeh, who lives nearby. Investigators said deputies reported seeing the suspect flee toward his home, later finding two firearms in Bojeh's residence after obtaining and serving a search warrant, according to NBC4/WCMH-TV.

In May 2021, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office arrested Bojeh for shooting at random into cars at a Wawa gas station in Kissimmee

While Bojeh faced attempted murder and aggravated battery charges, court records show a judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity.

The court ordered Bojeh to undergo mental health treatment, to live at his parents’ home on Indian Point Circle, and he “shall NOT own, possess or have access to firearms or any other illegal weapons."

 
A lovesick American has been sentenced to five years in a brutal Russian penal colony after sailing his yacht to the country with a rifle on board in a doomed 11-month plot to meet a woman he met online.

Charles Wayne Zimmerman, believed to be 58 or 59, was convicted of illegally transporting weapons after Russian customs officials discovered a rifle and ammo on board his boat, the Trude Zena, when he docked in the Black Sea port of Sochi on June 19, 2025, the Moscow Times reported.

The North Carolina man told a Russian court he had sailed across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to meet a woman he had first contacted online.

“He met a girl who lives in Kazan through the internet and decided to travel to Russia to see her on his yacht,” the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory said in a press release Monday.

“Before setting off, he didn’t bother to study the laws of the Russian Federation and assumed that the weapons he kept on his yacht for self-defense should simply always remain on board,” the press release read.

It wasn’t immediately clear when Zimmerman was sentenced, as his arrest and subsequent trial had not been reported in the Russian media before Monday’s announcement.

The name of the penal colony where he will serve out his sentence was not immediately released.

Zimmerman told authorities the gun was for self-defense, and that he had come to Russia to meet a woman he met online.

Video showing the moment of Zimmerman’s arrest last year on board his 35-foot yacht was released by Sochi’s Central District Court.

The video also showed a black hunting rifle in a case and two boxes of Remington rifle-caliber rounds, some of which appeared to be rusty.

He had set sail from Fort Macon, North Carolina, on July 1, 2024, telling loved ones he was heading to New Zealand, before changing course and sailing toward Europe.

“Zimmerman was last heard from on July 23. He had informed a family member that he would be departing in his sailing vessel en route to the Mediterranean Sea,” the US Coast Guard said in a missing person alert issued in September 2024.

The US State Department did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/19/world...ussia-after-sailing-over-to-meet-online-date/
 
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