{"id":165073,"date":"2026-02-22T22:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:36:07","slug":"orlando-police-arrest-suspect-for-fatal-north-orange-avenue-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165073\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Police Arrest Suspect for Fatal North Orange Avenue Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando police arrested a suspect for a fatal North Orange Avenue shooting.<\/p>\n

On February 22, 2026 at approximately 2:31am, Orlando Police Department officers responded to the 1900 block of North Orange Avenue in reference to a shooting.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival, officers located an adult male suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim, later identified as Julien Emmanuel Cruz, was transported to a local hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Suspect \u2013 1<\/p>\n

The OPD investigation revealed that the victim and suspect were involved in a verbal and physical altercation on the sidewalk prior to the shooting. During the dispute, the suspect retrieved a firearm from his vehicle and shot the victim, according to local law enforcement.<\/p>\n

OPD said the suspect fled the scene in his vehicle, which was later located by patrol units at the 200 block of East New Hampshire Avenue.<\/p>\n

Jean Gabriel Borja Gil De La Madr was later arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder with a Firearm.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Police Department said this marks the third homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n

This remains an active investigation, according to local law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando police arrested a suspect for a fatal North Orange Avenue shooting. On February 22, 2026 at approximately…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3721,4050,78652,78653,1933,1049,139,141,140,8416,132,215],"class_list":["post-165073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-firearm","tag-gunshot","tag-jean-gabriel-borja-gil-de-la-madr","tag-julien-emmanuel-cruz","tag-murder","tag-opd","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-department","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165073","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=165073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}