As Central Florida prepares to ring in the new year, law enforcement and fireworks vendors are urging residents to celebrate safely and avoid dangerous — and illegal — traditions involving firearms.
For several families in Orange County, the Christmas holiday was marked not by celebration, but by devastating loss.
An Orange County deputy shot a man who had just opened fire on them at an apartment complex, according to the sheriff’s office.
A 17-year-old was fatally shot during what might have been an attempted robbery, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
A 13-year-old girl was fatally shot in Orange County on Thursday afternoon, leading to the arrest of a teen suspect, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a murder-suicide that left a woman dead, her daughter critically injured, and the woman’s husband dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound three days before Christmas, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.
The department said the male took out a gun and fired it at a group of people he met with after a “verbal altercation.”
A man in his 30s was taken to the hospital after being shot on Monday afternoon, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
A 24-year-old man was arrested after firing a gun during a road rage confrontation on State Road 408 in Orlando on Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit.
A Marion County jury found a 24-year-old man guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm in the shooting death of 17-year-old Nosiah Santos, according to a news release from the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida.
Leesburg police are investigating after an 18-year-old man died after being found shot inside a vehicle at Berry Park on Sunday afternoon.
An 84-year-old Palm Bay man is accused of shooting one of his relatives in the face after becoming upset over how often the relative visited him, according to police.
The family of an Edgewater police officer who investigators say was fatally shot by a gas station clerk at a Circle K has named the chain in a $20-million wrongful-death lawsuit, according to their legal team.
Edgar, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, faces charges including murder and attempted murder after police say he fired into a crowd of thousands celebrating Halloween.
A bill bringing a special day of observation for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk just passed its first hurdle in the Florida Legislature on Tuesday.
A 19-year-old man was shot and 17-year-old was injured in a shooting while they tried to sell vape pens, according to the Casselberry Police Department.
A hostage situation broke out at a Kissimmee apartment complex on Friday morning, ultimately leading to the suspect being shot and killed by deputies, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
A 31-year-old man man faces homicide charges after police say he fatally shot another man inside a woman’s apartment on Thanksgiving Day.
A Port St. Lucie police officer was injured after being shot while responding to a “disturbance” call on Monday, according to a news release.
The legal team of Ethan Pritchard, the FSU football player who survived being shot in the back of the head earlier this year, will hold a news conference to discuss their lawsuit against the apartment complexes where they say the shooting originated.
A man is recovering after being shot on his own front porch, and deputies say they arrested a 17-year-old who is accused in the shooting.
A man was critically injured Sunday evening when he was shot during an argument outside a home in Seminole County, according to sheriff’s officials.
The locksmith who was was critically injured after being shot while deputies tried to serve an eviction notice at a home near Vero Beach has died, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.
The Florida State University freshman football player who survived being shot in the back of the head has filed a lawsuit against the apartment complexes where he says the shooting originated, court documents show.
Deputies are searching for a group of suspects after an attempted home invasion led to gunfire early Wednesday morning in a Deltona neighborhood, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
Police said they were tipped off to the shooting near Bristol Drive on Sunday night, with surveillance footage showing a "slim male" near the scene.
Three days after the execution of a search warrant at a tattoo shop resulted in an officer-involved shooting, video obtained by News 6 shows the moment Orlando police officers started shooting when a man opened the back door of the shop.
A man is in custody after allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend on Sunday in Brevard County, according to Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
The former Marion County deputy who fatally shot his girlfriend while they were allegedly cleaning guns has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
A party at a DeLand residence turned violent early Sunday when a man was injured after being shot twice following a physical altercation, according to a news release.
A judge is delaying a pre-trial detention hearing for a teenager accused in a deadly shooting of a classmate near Oak Ridge High School.
A University of North Florida professor, who was terminated for telling students he would “shoot them,” says his words were misinterpreted and that he wants his job back.
Nearly one year after a mass shooting during Halloween festivities in downtown Orlando, the families of the two victims who died are pursuing legal action against the city and the operator of Wall Street Plaza.
A Lyft driver arrested in Orange County is accused of shooting a man during an altercation involving a slammed car door, according to the sheriff’s office.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy in Orange County, according to the sheriff’s office
An 8-year-old boy was shot and wounded in Casselberry, and a second victim may be connected to the shooting, police said.
A man who broke into the home of a co-worker, starting a chain of events that led to a deadly shooting by Orange County deputies, has been found not guilty of murder.
Along with Jonterich Smith, who had active warrants, the driver was arrested for violating the state’s “Super Speeder” law, deputies said.
A 17-year-old boy accused of faking an abduction that sparked an Amber Alert last month has been arrested, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
One suspect was arrested, and another is on the run, for the shooting that killed a 15-year-old girl and injured two others in Brevard County earlier this month, according to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
Five years after 21-year-old Salaythis Melvin was shot and killed by an Orange County deputy outside the Florida Mall, his family has reached a $1 million settlement with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
A GoFundMe was set up for a 15-year-old girl killed earlier this week in an “ambush” shooting in Cocoa.
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is once again in a back-and-forth with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, this time over the sentencing of a man who shot at his ex-girlfriend in a drive-thru.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help to identify someone who’s accused of opening fire at a high school homecoming party.
A former FWC employee fired over a social media post involving the Charlie Kirk assassination earlier this month is now suing the agency, according to court records filed on Tuesday.
An 18-year-old Deltona man is accused of shooting at an occupied vehicle at a gas station, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
A vehicle was struck twice in an apparent road-rage shooting on the Florida’s Turnpike on Saturday morning, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
After a string of road rage arrests in Central Florida where drivers were accused of pulling guns on others, Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monique Worrell is urging caution on the roads.
A 17-year-old boy whose disappearance in Marion County on Thursday sparked an Amber Alert has been found safe, according to sheriff’s office.
Osceola County Sheriff Chris Blackmon said Jose Astacio, 30, was arrested by the Miami-Dade County Robbery Intervention Unit in Hialeah on Wednesday.
A Kissimmee man was not injured after being a victim of a road rage shooting on Interstate 95, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Lake County commissioners unanimously approved a memorial dedicated to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was assassinated at a speaking event in Utah earlier this month.
A man was detained over the weekend after a 4-year-old boy was hospitalized in the wake of a local shootout, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The Fruitland Park Police Department is looking for information related to a shooting that injured the driver of a vehicle on Friday evening, according to a news release.
According to the release, the incident began as a domestic argument when the suspect – later identified as 22-year-old Quentin Mosquera – “discharged a firearm, striking the victim one time.”
