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Suspect Dies in Shootout

A sheriff's sergeant in the Florida Panhandle says the search for a Missouri couple suspected in a series of robberies and abductions in Alabama and Georgia ended in a shootout that killed the man and wounded the woman.  Santa Rosa County Sheriff's officials say there was a shootout early Friday morning between the suspects and law enforcement officers that left Blake Fitzgerald dead and Brittany Nicole Harper injured.  Authorities say they learned the suspected were heading into Santa Rosa County and joined the search, which ended on a road.  Authorities have linked Fitzgerald and Harper to a series of crimes in Alabama and Georgia.