{"id":47355,"date":"2025-11-15T03:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:08:14","slug":"orlando-police-investigate-officer-involved-shooting-during-swat-raid-near-edgewater-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47355\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Police investigate officer-involved shooting during SWAT raid near Edgewater Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orlando Police Department is actively investigating an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/orlando-roads-closed-due-barricaded-suspect\/J5L3ZCYWS5BBVEOCL7COAEY5WM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:officer-involved shooting that happened on Friday afternoon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">officer-involved shooting that happened on Friday afternoon<\/a>, near Edgewater Drive and Lee Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the incident began when OPD SWAT served a search warrant for multiple suspects at a tattoo shop located at 4864 Edgewater Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OPD said the suspects had criminal histories that included burglary, robbery with a firearm, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, sex offenses, drug offenses, auto theft, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said around 2:04 p.m., during the operation, a suspect armed with an AK-47-style rifle fled the scene, prompting officers to fire at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said approximately 1 hour later, OPD SWAT entered the business, and the suspect, who initially fled back into the tattoo shop, was later found deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officers involved in the shooting were not injured and have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure following such incidents, OPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) will conduct an independent review of the shooting, followed by an investigation by the State Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Police Department is actively investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened on Friday afternoon, near Edgewater Drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30812,30813,30572,4860,1049,30811,139,141,140,8416,5049,30815,30814],"class_list":["post-47355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-criminal-histories","tag-drug-offenses","tag-edgewater-drive","tag-florida-department-of-law-enforcement","tag-opd","tag-opd-swat","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-department","tag-search-warrant","tag-shooting-that-happened","tag-tattoo-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47355","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=47355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}