{"id":262977,"date":"2026-05-08T03:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:36:19","slug":"florida-man-shot-friend-while-mishandling-gun-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262977\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man shot friend while &#8216;mishandling&#8217; gun, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man is facing a manslaughter charge after shooting and killing his friend, the Osceola County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The shooting happened Wednesday night at a home on Chatham Circle in Kissimmee, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wofl-carlos-moises-garcia.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Deputies said 22-year-old Carlos Moises Garcia was &#8220;mishandling&#8221; a loaded gun when it fired, shooting his friend, later identified as 21-year-old Orlando Jose Canizales. Canizaleswas rushed to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Garcia was arrested and booked into jail on one count of manslaughter with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No other details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The Osceola County Sheriff&#8217;s Office issued a news release about the incident on May 7, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/osceola-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Osceola County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man is facing a manslaughter charge after shooting and killing his friend,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,115,139,141,140,1976,628],"class_list":["post-262977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-osceola-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262977","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=262977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}