{"id":163893,"date":"2026-02-21T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163893\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:57:22","slug":"deputy-shoots-kills-16-year-old-inside-kissimmee-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163893\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy shoots, kills 16-year-old inside Kissimmee Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Authorities have identified a 16-year-old boy as the person shot and killed by a deputy inside a Walmart in Kissimmee on Thursday night.\u00a0The Osceola County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the shooting occurred around 7:45 p.m. after deputies received reports that three males were attempting to steal merchandise by concealing items under their clothing and leaving the store without paying.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0February 20, 2026 8:24pm EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified a 16-year-old boy as the person shot and killed by a deputy inside a Walmart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-163893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}