ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Police in Orlando have arrested a person in connection with the death of a four-year-old child at an Orlando apartment complex last month.<\/p>\n
Brandon McCloud, 18, was arrested Wednesday. <\/p>\n
McCloud is facing a charge of manslaughter for the July 17 shooting at Stella West Apartments on Bent Willow Circle, off Silver Star Road. That\u2019s where a four-year-old child was found shot. She was taken to an area hospital, where she died.<\/p>\n
[WATCH: Juvenile dead after shooting reported at Orlando apartment complex]<\/p>\n
Police say McCloud was handling a gun in a \u201ccareless manner,\u201d which led to the shooting. <\/p>\n
The shooting was concerning for residents worried about safety amid a lack of answers. Orlando police called the case \u201ccomplex\u201d and said they were working around the clock to conduct a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n
OPD said the investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n
Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n
More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Police in Orlando have arrested a person in connection with the death of a four-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[265,1335,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-363588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363588","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=363588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}