#Officials seek motive in massacre of best friends at Florida lake, offer 30K reward

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Keven Springfield, Brandon Rollins, Damion Tillman
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A $30,000 reward is being offered in the massacre of three best friends on a fishing trip at a Florida lake — as officials said Monday they’re still looking for a motive in the case.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said authorities “still don’t know why the murder occurred” as he announced the whopping sum offered for information that leads to an arrest in the puzzling case.

“This does not look like a drug deal gone bad,” Grady said at a press conference, adding that the slayings also don’t appear to be a “domestic event.”

“We don’t know the reason at this stage in the investigation,” he told reporters.

Investigators are probing several theories in the murders of Damion Tillman, 23, Brandon Rollins, 27 and Keven Springfield, 30, who were found slain Friday night at Lake Streety in Frostproof, about 70 miles south of Orlando.

The men were discovered by Cyril Rollins, the father of Brandon, who managed to call for help just before he died.

At this point, officials believe there may be more than one killer on the loose, Grady said.

The sheriff said it’s possible the men, who were driving in two vehicles, were killed in a road rage incident after they stopped to discuss their night fishing strategy, angering other motorists.

Another theory being explored is that the assailants followed and shot Tillman — who arrived at the lake first — and that the other two men were killed in an effort to get rid of witnesses, Grady said.

“We just don’t know,” he told reporters.

Grady hopes the joint reward — being offered by his department, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Sheriff’s association — will lead to the arrest of “these horrific criminals.”

“They’ve killed three people,” he said. “They have nothing to lose at this point.”