{"id":376180,"date":"2026-08-20T02:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:54:18","slug":"jury-seated-in-trial-of-suspect-in-deadly-2024-downtown-orlando-halloween-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376180\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury seated in trial of suspect in deadly 2024 downtown Orlando Halloween shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jury seated in trial of suspect in deadly 2024 downtown Orlando Halloween shooting<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787194458_958_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A jury has been seated in the trial of the man accused of killing two people in the 2024 downtown Orlando Halloween shooting. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Jury selection began Monday in Jaylen Edgar&#8217;s trial, which is scheduled to begin Thursday. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Almost two years ago, thousands of people were on Orange Avenue for Halloween when Edgar, who was 17 at the time, allegedly walked up to Tyrek Hill and shot him.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Prosecutors say Edgar then ran several blocks away and killed UCF student Timothy Schmidt, Jr.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Opening statements begin at 9 a.m. Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jury seated in trial of suspect in deadly 2024 downtown Orlando Halloween shooting ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A jury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[151553,56049,25385,217,35750,139,141,140,992,11878,151555,285,988,1284,1934,151554,918,164],"class_list":["post-376180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-downtown-orlando-halloween-shooting","tag-jaylen-edgar","tag-jury","tag-monday","tag-orange-avenue","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-people","tag-prosecutor","tag-several-block","tag-suspect","tag-thousand","tag-thursday","tag-trial","tag-ucf-student-timothy-schmidt","tag-wesh","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376180","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=376180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}