{"id":246978,"date":"2026-04-26T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246978\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:35:09","slug":"suspect-19-arrested-in-east-13th-street-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246978\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect, 19,\u00a0arrested in East 13th Street shooting\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"851\" height=\"315\" class=\"css-filter size-large bricks-lazy-hidden\" alt=\"Keith Zechariah Simmons\u00a0\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777178109_839_Untitled-design.png\" data-type=\"string\" data- \/>Keith Zechariah Simmons\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-credit\">Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting reported Thursday morning on East 13th Street\u00a0in south Apopka, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theapopkachief.com\/targeted-shooting-leaves-3-injured-1-dead-in-south-apopka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keith Zechariah Simmons, 19, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, sheriff\u2019s officials said in an update released\u00a0Friday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, to the 200 block of East 13th Street after receiving reports of a shooting. When they arrived, they found a man in his 50s who had been shot. The victim was transported to a hospital in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the victim was reported to be in stable condition, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No\u00a0additional\u00a0information was released as of Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation\u00a0remains\u00a0active.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Zechariah Simmons\u00a0 Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office A suspect has been arrested in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-246978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orlando","9":"tag-orlando-headlines","10":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246978","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=246978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}