{"id":377412,"date":"2026-08-21T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377412\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:56:12","slug":"man-shot-killed-after-card-game-in-winter-garden-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377412\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot, killed after card game in Winter Garden, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man shot, killed after card game in Winter Garden, police say<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/793f47c8-6ef6-41d4-b0de-fb642812c23f_1774634837.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Madilyn Destefano\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/3e4c9bdc-6fa0-4a74-ba2e-56d664b2b9af\" aria-label=\"Gail Paschall-Brown profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3e4c9bdc-6fa0-4a74-ba2e-56d664b2b9af_1739564484.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Gail Paschall-Brown\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>WINTER GARDEN, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man was shot and killed after playing a card game in Winter Garden, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The shooting occurred just before midnight on Aug. 19 on Bethune Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Upon arrival, officers with the Winter Garden Police Department located Shariff Simmons, 49, on the ground outside the residence. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police said before the shooting, Simmons and other occupants of the residence were playing a card game.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;Mr. Simmons was inside the residence playing cards with friends, who have all been very cooperative with us, and he stepped outside to take a phone call, at which time the shooting occurred,\u201d said Winter Garden police Captain Mike Mason. &#8220;We&#8217;re following up on every possible motive, possible lead, but we&#8217;re not prepared to release that information at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">All witnesses are being interviewed and evidence is being collected from the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&#8220;It did appear to be very targeted towards Mr. Simmons so, we don&#8217;t believe there to be a danger to the rest of the community,&#8221; Mason added.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">WGPD said the investigation is still active.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the police department or Crimeline.<\/p>\n<p>Crimeline<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">Crimeline\u2019s mission is to increase the safety of the Central Florida community by assisting law enforcement agencies in removing undesirable individuals from the community, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeline.org\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">&gt;&gt; Call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">&gt;&gt; Leave a tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"13\">Tips that lead to the felony arrest of suspects and\/or the recovery of stolen property and drugs may be eligible for cash rewards of up to $1,000. All tips eligible for a reward are paid to tipsters using an anonymous process.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"14\">Central Florida Crimeline began in July 1977, originally named Crimewatch, modeled after the first Crime Stoppers program founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man shot, killed after card game in Winter Garden, police say WINTER GARDEN, Fla. \u2014 A man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[151871,20460,44737,55904,151873,89135,2391,17649,139,141,140,151874,132,6551,725,151872,215,147471,25863],"class_list":["post-377412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-card-game","tag-cash-reward","tag-central-florida-community","tag-crimeline","tag-crimeline-crimeline","tag-fields","tag-man","tag-mission","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-other-occupant","tag-police","tag-residence","tag-scene","tag-shariff-simmons","tag-shooting","tag-tip-online","tag-winter-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377412","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=377412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}