What we know:<\/p>\n
Officers responded to South Orange Avenue on July 2 after reports of a gunshot.<\/p>\n
Police said investigators determined a man, later identified as Justice Fletcher, accidentally fired a gun that he had placed in a trash can when he went to retrieve it.<\/p>\n
Fletcher struck a nearby building when the gun discharged, according to police. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Police said officers later located Fletcher in a downtown parking garage, but he fled the scene when they tried to make contact.<\/p>\n
The gun was recovered nearby, according to police. Investigators determined it had been stolen.<\/p>\n
Orlando Police released surveillance video that appears to show Fletcher putting a gun in a trash can before returning moments later to retrieve it. A group of people nearby can be seen running away after he picks up the gun.<\/p>\n
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Orlando police released surveillance they said appears to show Justice Fletcher with a gun in downtown Orlando. (Credit: Orlando Police Department) <\/p>\n
Investigators said they also learned that Fletcher was intoxicated throughout the evening and was seen dropping the gun multiple times around downtown.<\/p>\n
During their investigation, detectives learned that Fletcher had been trespassed from a downtown hotel earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n
SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n Fletcher faces multiple charges <\/p>\n Fletcher was arrested Monday by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department on unrelated charges, according to police.<\/p>\n He faces several charges from the downtown Orlando incident, including aggravated assault with a firearm, shooting into a public building, grand theft, discharging a firearm on public property, using a firearm while under the influence, improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon or firearm, resisting an officer without violence and tampering with evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written with information released by the Orlando Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Orlando News<\/a>Orange County News<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – A man was arrested after he accidentally fired a stolen gun in downtown Orlando and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-330926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330926","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=330926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wofl-justice-fletcher-booking.jpg\")
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