{"id":378074,"date":"2026-08-22T04:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378074\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:08:27","slug":"winter-garden-police-investigating-deadly-shooting-after-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378074\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Garden police investigating deadly shooting after card game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a385c3vr68ubwkj8.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigating deadly shooting in Winter Garden after card game\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a385c3vr68ubwkj8.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigating deadly shooting in Winter Garden after card game\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WINTER GARDEN, Fla. &#8211; Authorities are investigating the deadly shooting of a man who was found shot outside a Winter Garden home Wednesday evening. Police said the shooting took place after a card game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Evidence is being collected at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say the shooting happened around 11:25 p.m., Aug. 19 at 778 Bethune Avenue in Winter Garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have identified the victim as 49-year-old Shariff Simmons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winter Garden Police are investigating a man&#8217;s death on Aug. 19, 2026.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Simmons was found on the ground outside the home and pronounced dead on scene. Police say that Simmons had been playing a card game before the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police are still interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by the Winter Garden Police Department. This story was reported from Orlando. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/central-florida-news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Florida News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/winter-garden\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Garden<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER GARDEN, Fla. &#8211; Authorities are investigating the deadly shooting of a man who was found shot outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3834,630,47,115,1335,139,141,140,628,25863],"class_list":["post-378074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us","tag-winter-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378074","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=378074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}