Man charged in fatal shooting of woman in Kissimmee

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old woman, the Kissimmee Police Department said Monday.

The shooting was reported shortly before 12:30 p.m. Sunday at a home on North Forrest Avenue near West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, police spokeswoman Stacie Miller said.

Police said they found Tyanna Milagros Velasquez in a bedroom of the home with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives identified Nicolas Rincon as a person of interest, Miller said. He was found  with a gun near the home and was taken into custody, she said.

"The serial number on the firearm had been altered," Miller said.

Rincon was booked into the Osceola County Jail on charges of homicide, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number. He is being jailed without bail.

Resident Kenny Martinez said nothing like this has ever happened in the neighborhood.

"Ah, man, it was bad, like something really bad had happened," he said. "Like, never seen it or felt it like this in this area."

Resident Julio Ortiz Castro said he saw Rincon after the shooting and, knowing he was a person of interest, got him to stop.

"I say, 'Hey, you. Stop. Raise your hands. Hit the ground,'" Castro said. "And then all the police came over and grabbed him."

In a community still reeling from the deaths of two Kissimmee police officers, Velasquez's death was another reminder that violence can strike anywhere, Martinez said.

"It's kind of scary to think it could happen to any of us, especially how it happened to those two officers down the road," he said.

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