\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA police raid on an Orlando tattoo shop ended in gunfire Friday afternoon, leaving one man dead and several suspects detained, authorities said.Orlando police say a SWAT team was serving a search warrant at the business on Edgewater Drive near Lee Road when the standoff escalated. According to investigators, officers were targeting \u201cmultiple suspects\u201d believed to have extensive criminal histories.Video captured from nearby shows officers firing toward the shop as the confrontation reached its peak.Michael Kennedy, who owns Southern Style BBQ next door, said he heard gunfire as police moved in.\u201cI was in the back getting ready to serve a customer, and then I happened to come around the corner and the first thing I see is a robot dog coming out of the van,\u201d Kennedy said.Police say one suspect armed with an AK-47 rifle ran back inside the shop and barricaded himself with several others. When the standoff ended, one person was killed. Residents and nearby workers say the man was a tattoo artist who worked inside the shop, but WESH 2 is withholding his identity until it is confirmed by family or investigators.\u201cHe always smiled,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cHe came and bought food. He was a pleasant kid \u2014 just busy and doing what he loved to do.\u201dJabriel Aponte, who works a few doors down, said he had spoken with the man just hours before the shooting. The artist had recently begun two tattoos for him, including one featuring a Bible verse.\u201cIt\u2019s Spanish. It says, \u2018If God is with me, who is against me?\u2019 It\u2019s Romans 8:31, I believe,\u201d Aponte said.Aponte said he hit the ground when gunshots rang out and later learned the artist had died.\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d he said.Orlando police say multiple suspects were detained during the operation but have not specified how many. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now investigating the police shooting, which is standard protocol.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A police raid on an Orlando tattoo shop ended in gunfire Friday afternoon, leaving one man dead and several suspects detained, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Orlando police say a SWAT team was serving a search warrant at the business on Edgewater Drive near Lee Road when the standoff escalated. According to investigators, officers were targeting \u201cmultiple suspects\u201d believed to have extensive criminal histories.<\/p>\n
Video captured from nearby shows officers firing toward the shop as the confrontation reached its peak.<\/p>\n
Michael Kennedy, who owns Southern Style BBQ next door, said he heard gunfire as police moved in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in the back getting ready to serve a customer, and then I happened to come around the corner and the first thing I see is a robot dog coming out of the van,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
Police say one suspect armed with an AK-47 rifle ran back inside the shop and barricaded himself with several others. When the standoff ended, one person was killed. Residents and nearby workers say the man was a tattoo artist who worked inside the shop, but WESH 2 is withholding his identity until it is confirmed by family or investigators.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe always smiled,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cHe came and bought food. He was a pleasant kid \u2014 just busy and doing what he loved to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jabriel Aponte, who works a few doors down, said he had spoken with the man just hours before the shooting. The artist had recently begun two tattoos for him, including one featuring a Bible verse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s Spanish. It says, \u2018If God is with me, who is against me?\u2019 It\u2019s Romans 8:31, I believe,\u201d Aponte said.<\/p>\n
Aponte said he hit the ground when gunshots rang out and later learned the artist had died.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Orlando police say multiple suspects were detained during the operation but have not specified how many. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now investigating the police shooting, which is standard protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police raid on an Orlando tattoo shop ended in gunfire Friday afternoon, leaving one man dead and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14050,30572,7441,31165,12163,2391,31162,30959,139,141,140,1120,30956,31164,8530,11282,31163,1045],"class_list":["post-48334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-edgewater-drive","tag-investigator","tag-jabriel-aponte","tag-lee-road","tag-man","tag-michael-kennedy","tag-multiple-suspect","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police","tag-orlando-tattoo-shop","tag-police-raid","tag-shop","tag-standoff","tag-tattoo-artist","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48334","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=48334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}