A shooting that left one man dead over the weekend is the fourth homicide in the past seven months in the south Orlando community of Oak Ridge.
On Saturday, May 27, Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the 2000 block of Rivertree Circle in reference to a shooting.
Upon arrival, deputies located a man in his 20s who had been shot.
The man was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
As of Saturday, police had not provided any additional details regarding potential suspects.
The homicide follows several months of similar incidents in the small community of Oak Ridge, which is a suburb of Orlando with an estimated population of over 25,000 residents.
In late April, 38-year-old Manuel DeJesus Guevara-Perez was found suffering from gunshot wounds just a few blocks away from where Saturday’s shooting took place. After the shooting, Guevara-Perez, who had celebrated his 38th birthday just a few weeks before, was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.
In early April, 29-year-old Michele Lynn Mossuto, was found suffering from gunshot wounds in the area of South Orange Blossom Trail and Americana Boulevard. She died from her injuries a short time thereafter and, in the weeks since, police have arrested 25-year-old Kyle Carnley in connection with the shooting.
In January, an Amazon driver was held at gunpoint inside his vehicle while two suspects robbed him at Caden Apartments, which is located at 1953 Americana Boulevard. Both of the suspects in that incident were arrested.
Last month, Darrius Jaques Garrett was sentenced to spend seven years and six months in federal prison in connection with a shooting at a shopping plaza located at 2200 Americana Boulevard in May 2022. Despite sustaining gunshot wounds in his abdomen and torso, the victim in that case survived.
All of the shootings listed above took place within the small community of Oak Ridge, which is just south of the Mall at Millenia and just north of The Florida Mall.