(CNN) – The 17-year-old suspect in a deadly shooting at a downtown Orlando Halloween party early Friday morning was charged as an adult Monday, prosecutors said.

Jaylen Dwayne Edgar was arrested at the scene, where police body camera video showed a large crowd fleeing the gunfire that killed two people and injured six others.

“Shooting into a huge crowd like this shows a true disregard for life, and the only way is to charge this defendant as an adult because it fits the egregious nature of the crime,” State Attorney Andrew Bain said in a statement. press conference Monday.

Bain said two counts of second-degree murder have been filed against Edgar, with more charges expected. He added that a grand jury could raise those charges to first-degree murder. “The video was clear that he shot someone in the eye at point blank range,” Bain said.

The slain men have been identified as Tyrek Hill, 25, and Timothy Schmidt Jr., 19, the Orlando Police Department told CNN in an email Saturday. The injured victims ranged in age from 18 to 39, police said.

Two were admitted to Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition and listed as stable later Friday morning, hospital spokeswoman Marlei Martinez told CNN. Additionally, a 26-year-old woman was hospitalized after being trampled as bystanders fled. A tenth victim was in stable condition after being taken to a hospital Friday morning, Orlando police said.

It was not immediately clear if Edgar had legal representation for the charges filed against him as an adult.

The shooting was the 27th mass shooting in Florida this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and is among more than 400 nationwide. CNN defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people, excluding the shooter, have been shot.

The suspect opened fire at one location before fleeing with the crowd, Police Chief Eric Smith said, citing video footage. The suspect opened fire again at a second location, and police took him down moments later, according to the chief.

About 100 officers were working a detail in the area, which allowed for a quick response but didn’t seem to deter the shooter, Smith said. “Whatever his mindset was, he was going to shoot no matter what,” Smith said. “He passed several officers. He really didn’t care.”

Authorities are confident the shooter acted alone, Smith said Friday afternoon, adding that the suspect was uncooperative and did not speak to authorities. The suspect was previously arrested on a grand larceny charge in 2023, Smith said.

Police are investigating whether the victims were random or known to the suspect. The video captures the moment police say the suspect walks past a victim and then turns and shoots. “Know him? Did I happen to run into someone who is one of his enemies for whatever reason? That’s all part of the case,” Smith said.

The suspect was being interviewed Friday morning as police looked for a motive, Smith said. “This person here has thrown his life away. For what?” Smith said.

“The broader issue is keeping guns and access to them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, especially our young people,” Bain said Monday.

The attack was another example of gunfire disrupting the ordinary lives of Americans, from parade routes to returning to campus to a night on the town.

The gunfire erupted just blocks from the site of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting on June 12, 2016, when a 29-year-old gunman killed 49 people. At least 53 others were injured, and police shot and killed the shooter at the scene.

Here’s what we know about how Friday’s filming went:

“Everybody started running” as shots rang out

Large crowds gathered for scattered Halloween festivities as shots were fired just after 1 a.m. Friday, surveillance video from the scene shows. Sofia Alcala, who works downtown, told CNN affiliate WKMG that she heard the gunshots before everyone started “freaking out.”

“Everybody started running,” she said. “I saw a group of people, you know, enjoying Halloween … and then shots were fired and everyone scattered. I heard so many girls screaming and crying.”

Within minutes, shots were fired at a second location about a block away. “Shortly after the reported shooting, a shooting suspect was located and taken into custody at Washington and Orange,” Chief Smith said. A gun was recovered at the scene, police said.

Between 50,000 and 100,000 people were in the area celebrating Halloween, which is “one of the busiest nights of the year,” Smith said.

But this year, the measures used in previous years to check people for guns during the downtown Halloween celebration — including checkpoints and gun-sniffing dogs — were not possible because a 2023 state law allows most people to carry a concealed handgun without a permit, a Smith said.

“When the law changed, basically you can drive on a public street as long as you meet certain criteria,” he said.

The change “made it even easier for people to carry guns and bring guns downtown,” Mayor Buddy Dyer said.

Dyer has implemented a state of emergency for businesses in the downtown Orlando entertainment district. Police have announced that a 1am to 5am curfew will be in place until November 8.

“We want a fun and lively downtown, but we’ve experienced lately that eager criminals are willing to come downtown and shoot and kill innocent victims right in front of our police officers,” Dyer said.

Police said they are looking at what resources to add to secure downtown on weekends, which is typically a popular hangout on the Saturday after Halloween, they said.

Some city officials were weighing whether to close off much of downtown, allowing single-point access during weekends and special events, Shan Rose, Orlando’s District 5 commissioner, told WKMG.

“We’ve been working with the businesses and some of the downtown residents to look at options to go to a full and coordinated access point,” Rose said.

“The first thing I did was thank God I’m still here”

One of the two men killed was a student at the University of Central Florida, the Orlando college confirmed to students in an email to CNN on Friday.

Timothy Schmidt Jr. was a college freshman hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps as a businessman, according to a GoFundMe set up in his memory.

“He was an extraordinary person, a loving son, a caring friend, a talented soccer player, an amazing teammate, a kind soul, a hardworking student and an individual with an extremely warm heart and a witty sense of humor.” states GoFundMe.

“Our hearts are filled with pain as we mourn this tragic, senseless violence that also resulted in the injury of at least one other student and may affect many students who were celebrating Halloween and in the vicinity of this incident “, the university said. – the largest in Florida – he said in an email.

Anthony Berry, 20, was grazed by a bullet along his scalp — an injury that could have been worse if it had been located an inch lower, Orlando trauma surgeon said Health, Joseph Ibrahim, at a press conference on Friday.

“After it happened, the first thing I did was thank God I’m still here,” said Berry, who plans to go into nursing. Berry was walking with a friend when the shooting started.