{"id":339761,"date":"2026-07-14T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:40:08","slug":"off-duty-ocso-deputy-accidentally-shoots-own-child-while-cleaning-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339761\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty OCSO deputy accidentally shoots own child while cleaning gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h973198-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">An Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy was cleaning his gun while off duty Friday, July 10, when he accidentally shot his child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h973198-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Deputies soon arrived to Austin Ritchey&#8217;s Winter Garden residence, where his two children were found with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h973198-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">One of his children had a gunshot wound, and one had injuries from shrapnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h973198-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The children were transported to the hospital to receive care, and are now back home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h973198-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The investigation remains active and ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h973198-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">No other information was shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy was cleaning his gun while off duty Friday, July 10, when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-339761","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\/339761","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=339761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}