Orange County

Multiple people apprehended after several agencies respond to Winter Garden home

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Multiple agencies responded to a house in Winter Garden in connection to an armed disturbance and possible shooting in another county.

Deputies flooded the area south of West Colonial Drive on South Park Avenue around 6 p.m.

Six people were arrested following a widespread search that started a county over, in Osceola County.

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The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said their helicopter followed the suspects to Winter Garden after a deputy tried to pull them over.

The car was suspected in connection with a call of shots fired on Desoto Drive in Kissimmee. The chopper followed it as investigators say the suspects threw the gun out of the car while driving 30 miles away before bailing out of it. At least two people were seen in handcuffs.

Skywitness 9 caught deputies searching townhomes near from the RV dealership for the men.

It was not intermediately known how many of the six suspects have been formally arrested and what charges they face.

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