{"id":366181,"date":"2026-08-08T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366181\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:22:52","slug":"teen-arrested-in-deadly-shooting-of-4-year-old-boy-at-orlando-apartment-complex-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366181\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested in deadly shooting of 4-year-old boy at Orlando apartment complex, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arrest \"Arrest <\/p>\n

ORLANDO, Fla. – An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the deadly shooting of a 4-year-old boy<\/a> at an Orlando apartment complex in July, according to the police department.<\/p>\n

The suspect, identified as Brandon Sir Nevaeh McCloud, was taken into custody on Wednesday by the Orlando Police Fugitive Task Force.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

On July 17, police officers responded to the Stella West Apartments near Silver Star Road after reports of a shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they found a child with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

The boy was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital as a trauma alert, but he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

During the investigation, police said investigators determined that McCloud was handling a gun “in a careless manner” at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n

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McCloud faces a charge of manslaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police have not released any additional details about the case, but said the investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Source: This story was written with information released by the Orlando Police Department and from previous FOX 35 reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Orlando News<\/a>Orange County News<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the deadly shooting of a 4-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364984,"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-366181","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\/366181","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=366181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}