{"id":354318,"date":"2026-07-27T23:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:33:37","slug":"shots-fired-during-recovery-of-missing-girl-in-ocala-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354318\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired during recovery of missing girl in Ocala, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shots fired during recovery of missing girl ‘abducted’ from her Ocala home, deputies say<\/p>\n

\"Dacia\"MadilynOCALA, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

A Florida AMBER Alert has been canceled after a 13-year-old girl last seen in Ocala was found. <\/p>\n

>> The video above is previous coverage.<\/p>\n

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said the girl was “abducted” from her home between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday and was with a 45-year-old suspect in a vehicle heading south. <\/p>\n

The girl was “recovered safely” around 6 p.m., MCSO said. <\/p>\n

But just before that, around 5:20 p.m., deputies located the suspect vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, deputies said.<\/p>\n

The suspect, identified as Jason Castillo, refused to stop and fled from deputies, according to MCSO.<\/p>\n

The vehicle was eventually stopped by deputies and became disabled on U.S. Highway 441 near the intersection with County Road 25A.<\/p>\n

As deputies attempted to apprehend Castillo, shots were fired, MCSO said. <\/p>\n

Castillo was transported to the hospital for treatment. His condition is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n

The girl has been found safe.<\/p>\n

All the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 441 in the area of the incident remain closed. <\/p>\n

MCSO is asking the public to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n

This remains an active investigation.<\/p>\n

>> This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shots fired during recovery of missing girl ‘abducted’ from her Ocala home, deputies say OCALA, Fla. \u2014 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144745,25406,4626,144748,28,144698,30,144737,29,7737,144739,144742,144740,144738,2649,144746,144747,144736,144743,144744,144741],"class_list":["post-354318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-9100th-block","tag-com","tag-company","tag-contact-law-enforcement","tag-florida","tag-florida-amber-alert","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-missing-girl","tag-florida-news","tag-girl","tag-girl-abducted-florida","tag-id2081851720649568585","tag-jason-castillo","tag-juliet-arioso","tag-ocala","tag-pbcountysheriff","tag-red-hyundai-santa-fe","tag-shady-road-villas-community-in-ocala","tag-southwest-27th-avenue","tag-updatedtwitter-aligncenter","tag-usernamepbcountysheriffhttps-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354318","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=354318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}