{"id":417875,"date":"2026-10-03T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417875\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:38:08","slug":"teen-arrested-for-shooting-victim-in-orlando-after-physical-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417875\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Arrested for Shooting Victim in Orlando after Physical Altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teen was arrested for a shooting a victim in Orlando after a physical altercation.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Police Department arrested 17-year-old Justin Flores Herrera in connection with the shooting that occurred at 2742 E. Colonial Drive.<\/p>\n

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According to OPD, the victim in this case was working in the area when he was approached by Herrera, who began yelling at him while displaying a firearm. The victim attempted to get away from Herrera, who continued to approach him and attempted to punch him, leading to a physical altercation.<\/p>\n

During the altercation, Herrera fired three shots, striking the victim, before fleeing the scene. The victim was transported to a local hospital in stable condition, according to OPD.<\/p>\n

Through the course of the local law enforcement investigation, detectives developed multiple leads that identified Herrera as a suspect. Herrera later provided detectives with information about the location of the firearm believed to have been used during this shooting. That firearm was recovered.<\/p>\n

According to the Orlando Police Department, Justin Herrera was charged with Attempted First-Degree Murder, Aggravated Assault with a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm by a Minor.<\/p>\n

ALSO: Orlando Police Chief Holding Community Meetings in City Districts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen was arrested for a shooting a victim in Orlando after a physical altercation. The Orlando Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[286,16525,1049,139,141,140,8416,132,215],"class_list":["post-417875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-arrested","tag-colonial-drive","tag-opd","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-department","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417875","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=417875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}