{"id":168122,"date":"2026-02-25T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168122\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:28:13","slug":"friends-demand-justice-after-ivanhoe-village-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168122\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Demand Justice After Ivanhoe Village Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Friends of a man murdered in Ivanhoe Village want answers. 33-year-old Julien Emmanuel Cruz was shot and killed outside Savoy Orlando, a nightclub, early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Cruz\u2019s friend Ivy Guera says Cruz was a sweet person. \u201cJust the energy of light and his smile lit up a room like no other.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Investigators say he had gotten into a fight on the sidewalk with the suspect. 37-year-old Jean Borja is charged with second-degree murder with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">According to officers, after shooting Cruz, he drove away and was later located on East New Hampshire Avenue. Ivy says, \u201cWe just want justice for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">People who work in the neighborhood say this is usually a safe area. Joann Marvin says, \u201cIt just breaks my heart that this happened. I\u2019m sad for those families.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Ivy says, \u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve any of that. He didn\u2019t deserve to get his light dimmed the way it did.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772000893_245_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Friends of a man murdered in Ivanhoe Village want answers. 33-year-old Julien Emmanuel Cruz was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[78674,80029,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-168122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-78674","tag-emmanuel-cruz","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168122","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=168122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}