{"id":416417,"date":"2026-10-02T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:38:10","slug":"orange-county-deputies-seek-suspect-after-19-year-old-woman-shot-killed-in-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416417\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County deputies seek suspect after 19-year-old woman shot, killed in apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/myxzzzzt8ifa8irq.jpg\" alt=\"Deputies seek answers after woman, 19, killed at Orlando apartment complex\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/myxzzzzt8ifa8irq.jpg\" alt=\"Deputies seek answers after woman, 19, killed at Orlando apartment complex\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-a3924c54=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; <a class=\"zReHs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County<\/a> deputies are asking for the public&#8217;s help as they investigate the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old woman near Americana Boulevard and South Orange Blossom Trail.<\/p>\n<p>   Detectives searching for answers <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies responded just before 1 a.m. to an apartment unit on Ole Heritage Drive, where they found 19-year-old Shoumana Toutoute suffering from a gunshot wound. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nearly 24 hours after the shooting, investigators said they are still looking for a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has not identified a suspect or released details about who may have fired the shots.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wofl-shoumana-toutoute-shot-and-killed.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives also say nothing uncovered so far indicates that Toutoute or anyone inside the home was intentionally targeted, leaving investigators trying to determine what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p> Public asked to help <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact investigators immediately.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities say even small pieces of information could help identify the person responsible and move the homicide investigation forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/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":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Orange County deputies are asking for the public&#8217;s help as they investigate the fatal shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416418,"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-416417","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\/416417","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=416417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}