ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man was shot and killed Thursday morning at a home in Orange County in what the homeowner is now saying was a burglary in process, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The fatal shooting happened on Ponderosa Drive off Hoffner Avenue, near Goldenrod Road.
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said there was an altercation between the homeowner and someone else and a “firearm was discharged.”
Sheriff’s officials later identified the man that was pronounced dead at the scene as 31-year-old Jose Enrique Benavides Montero. Deputies said that Montero was shot by the resident of the home during what the resident claimed was a burglary in progress.
The resident stayed at the scene and has cooperated with the investigation, which is active and ongoing, according to the sheriff’s office.
A neighbor said he heard about five or six gunshots.
BREAKING: Orange County Deputies calling this a death investigation after they say a homeowner and another person got into an altercation on Ponderosa Drive this morning and a firearm was discharged.
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