{"id":166477,"date":"2026-02-24T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166477\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:43:10","slug":"live-orange-county-sheriff-john-mina-suspect-shot-after-not-following-deputy-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166477\/","title":{"rendered":"Live | Orange County Sheriff John Mina: Suspect shot after not following deputy orders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s office responded to a Walmart on East Colonial Drive regarding reports of a man attempting to steal from the store. When deputies arrived, the man \u2013 later identified as Jason Anthony Beal, 48 \u2013 was walking out of the store wearing a ski mask and pushing a shopping cart full of merchandise, Sheriff John Mina said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deputy gave the man numerous commands to stop. The man did not comply with those commands,&#8221; the sheriff said. The deputy fired his taser, which didn&#8217;t have any effect and, &#8220;shortly after that, the deputy could be heard saying, \u2018Don\u2019t reach, don&#8217;t reach,&#8217; three times and then our deputy fires his service weapons at the suspect, striking him several times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0February 23, 2026 6:15pm EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s office responded to a Walmart on East Colonial Drive regarding reports of a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-166477","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\/166477","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=166477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}