The Brief<\/p>\n
Orlando Police were involved in a barricade situation, Friday.<\/p>\n
An officer was involved in a shooting near Edgewater Drive and Lee Road in Orlando. No officers were injured.<\/p>\n
One suspect died in the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n
ORLANDO, Fla. – An hours-long standoff at a shopping center in Orlando has ended, according to the Orlando Police Chief.<\/p>\n
A suspect was found dead inside a building off of Edgewater Drive near Lee Road in Orlando, police said. It’s not clear if the individual was shot and killed by officers or if they shot himself.<\/p>\n
Orlando Police Department Chief Eric Smith said the officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave during the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
FDLE will conduct an independent review of the incident followed by the State Attorney’s office, Smith said.<\/p>\n
Police Chief: Suspect armed with AK-47<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
The Orlando Police Department arrived to serve a search warrant related to drug and weapons charges at a tattoo business. There were multiple suspects connected to the search warrant, the department said.<\/p>\n
When police arrived, police said someone exited the rear of the building with an AK-47 and ran back inside after seeing SWAT officers. Police fired several shots.<\/p>\n
When police went inside, they found one person dead. It’s unclear how that person died. It was not clear if the person died by police gunfire.<\/p>\n
FOX 35 has learned that no officers were hurt.<\/p>\n
FOX 35 cameras captured multiple Orlando police vehicles, police officers, and SWAT members surrounding the shopping center. Glass at a tattoo business appeared to have been shattered, according to SKYFOX video from the scene.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video<\/p>\n
Surveillance video shared with FOX 35 appears to show someone open a rear door at the shopping center and then quickly turnaround, as SWAT team members and officers fired several rounds.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Shortly after 2:30 p.m., the Orlando Police Department said it was working an active situation near Edgewater Drive and Lee Road. It said roads were closed and encouraged people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
At 3:31 p.m., Orlando Police said it was working a barricade situation.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
Police have not released any details on the suspect or whether that person was hurt or not.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this story was sourced from the Orlando Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Orlando Police were involved in a barricade situation, Friday. An officer was involved in a shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30572,30829,139,141,140,1120,1202,8181,23082],"class_list":["post-47426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-edgewater-drive","tag-eric-smith","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police","tag-police-chief","tag-police-officers","tag-shopping-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426","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=47426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}