{"id":396509,"date":"2026-09-11T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:42:10","slug":"17-year-old-accused-of-attempted-murder-in-orlando-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396509\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old accused of attempted murder in Orlando shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

17-year-old accused of attempted murder in Orlando shooting, police say<\/p>\n

\"BrandonORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Orlando police late Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old boy in connection with a shooting that occurred several days earlier along East Colonial Drive. <\/p>\n

The teen will face charges including attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a minor, the Orlando Police Department said in a news release. <\/p>\n

>> WESH 2 is not naming the suspect because of his age<\/p>\n

Officers responded Saturday, Sept. 5, to a reported shooting in the 2700 block of East Colonial Drive. WESH 2 News went to the area that day and observed crime scene tape. <\/p>\n

The victim in this case was working in the area when he was approached by the teen, who began yelling at him while displaying a firearm, the release states. <\/p>\n

As the victim tried to get away from the teen, the suspect continued to approach him and tried to punch him, leading to a physical altercation, police said. <\/p>\n

“During the altercation, (the teen) fired three shots, striking the victim, before fleeing the scene. The victim was transported to a local hospital in stable condition,” the release states. “Through the course of this investigation, detectives developed multiple leads that identified (the teen) as a suspect. (He) later provided detectives with information about the location of the firearm believed to have been used during this shooting. That firearm has since been recovered.” <\/p>\n

>> This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"17-year-old accused of attempted murder in Orlando shooting, police say ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando police late Thursday announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14837,11578,7867,3721,4211,1933,541,139,141,140,1120,75479,132,41934,285,1953,6411,918],"class_list":["post-396509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-boy","tag-detective","tag-east-colonial-drive","tag-firearm","tag-information","tag-murder","tag-news-release","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police","tag-orlando-shooting","tag-police","tag-several-day","tag-suspect","tag-teen","tag-victim","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396509","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=396509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}