{"id":165120,"date":"2026-02-22T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:26:09","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-man-was-fatally-shot-during-a-sidewalk-dispute-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165120\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after man was fatally shot during a sidewalk dispute in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orlando Police Department arrested a man on a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm following a fatal shooting early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to the 1900 block of North Orange Avenue at approximately 2:31 a.m. regarding a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers arrived, they located 33-year-old Julien Emmanuel Cruz suffering from a gunshot wound. Cruz was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation found that Cruz and the suspect, 37-year-old Jean Gabriel Borja Gil De La Madr, were involved in a verbal and physical altercation on the sidewalk before the shooting. During the dispute, the suspect retrieved a firearm from his vehicle and shot Cruz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the shooting, the suspect fled the scene in his vehicle. Patrol units later located the vehicle in the 200 block of East New Hampshire Avenue and arrested Madr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay tuned for further updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Police Department arrested a man on a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[78652,78653,139,141,140,8416],"class_list":["post-165120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-jean-gabriel-borja-gil-de-la-madr","tag-julien-emmanuel-cruz","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165120","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=165120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}