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Deputies: 2 brothers killed in Orange County shooting identified

Deputies: 2 brothers killed in Orange County shooting identified
FOR THE LATEST DETAILS, DOWNLOAD THE WESH 2 APP AND TURN ON THE ALERTS FOR BREAKING UPDATES. A BIZARRE SHOOTING SCENE IN ORLANDO. IT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF TWO BROTHERS. ONE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY AN ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY. SUMMER: THE SHOOTING HAPPENED OVER THE WEEKEND AND WESH 2’S MICHELLE MEREDITH HAS THE NEW DETAILS JUST RELEASED BY THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE. MICHELLE: ON SATURDAY, CHAOS AT A MOTEL ON ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL. MUCH OF IT CAPTURED ON A CELL PHONE. WHEN IT WAS OVER, 3 PEOPLE HAD BEEN SHOT. TWO OF THEM, DYLAN JIMENEZ AND BRYAN RICHARDSON, WERE DEAD. THEY WERE BROTHERS. ONE WAS SHOT AT THE HANDS OF AN ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY. ACCORDING TO DEPUTIES, IT STARTED JUST OUTSIDE THE HERITAGE HOTEL WHEN THE BROTHERS WERE ARGUING WITH A THIRD MAN. THE ARGUMENT ENDED IN GUNFIRE WHEN THE MAN SHOT ONE BROTHER, JIMENEZ, BUT JIMENEZ ALSO MANAGED TO SQUEEZE OFF A ROUND THAT HIT THE MAN. INVESTIGATORS SAYS AS JIMENEZ LAY BLEEDING IN THE MOTEL PARKING LOT, HIS BROTHER, RICHARDSON, SHOWN ON THE LEFT, WALKED UP TO THE SCENE HOLDING A GUN. IT APPEARS AT THE BEGINNING THE TWO DEPUTIES DON’T NOTICE HE HAD A GUN, THEN A WOMEN SCREAMS OUT. >> HE’S GOT A GUN! MICHELLE: AT THAT POINT, DEPUTIES REACT. ONE DEPUTY LOOKS LIKE SHE’S REACHED TO GRAB RICHARDSON'S GUN. A SECOND DEPUTY, HOWEVER, DRAWS HIS GUN. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE DEPUTY ORDERED RICHARDSON TO DROP HIS GUN AND THEY SAY WHEN HE DIDN’T, THE DEPUTY FIRED. >> CHALLENGED THAT PERSON AND ASK HIM TO DROP THE GUN. HE REFUSED TO COMPLY. AT THAT POINT, ONE OF OUR DEPUTIES DISCHARGED HIS WEAPON, STRIKING THE SUSPECT. MICHELLE: ALL THREE MEN WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. ONLY ONE MAN, THE MAN THE
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Deputies: 2 brothers killed in Orange County shooting identified
A shooting scene in Orlando resulted in the death of two brothers.One was shot and killed by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at a hotel on Orange Blossom Trail, and much of it was captured on cellphone video. RELATED: WESH 2 Investigates: Witnesses recall events leading to deadly Orange County shootingWhen it was over, three people had been shot.Two of them, Dylan Jimenez and Bryan Richardson were dead. They were brothers. One was shot at the hands of an Orange County sheriff's deputy. According to deputies, it started just outside the Heritage Hotel when the brothers were arguing with a third man, who has not been identified. The argument ended in gunfire when the man shot Jimenez, but Jimenez also managed to squeeze off a round that hit the man. As Jimenez lay bleeding in the hotel parking lot, his brother, Richardson walked up to the scene holding a gun, investigators said.It appears in the beginning that the two deputies didn't notice he had a gun, but then a woman screamed out. "He's got a gun," a resident is heard saying in the video. At that point, deputies reacted.One deputy looks like she reached to grab Richardson's gun. A second deputy, however, drew his gun.Investigators say the deputy ordered Richardson to drop his gun, and they say when he didn't, the deputy fired. "They challenged that person, asked him to drop the gun. He refused to comply. One of the deputies discharged his weapon, striking the suspect," Orange County Sheriff's Office Undersheriff Mark Canty said. All three men were taken to the hospital, but only one man, the third man Jimenez was arguing with, survived. The deputy-involved shooting will be investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

A shooting scene in Orlando resulted in the death of two brothers.

One was shot and killed by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at a hotel on Orange Blossom Trail, and much of it was captured on cellphone video.

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RELATED: WESH 2 Investigates: Witnesses recall events leading to deadly Orange County shooting

When it was over, three people had been shot.

Two of them, Dylan Jimenez and Bryan Richardson were dead. They were brothers.

One was shot at the hands of an Orange County sheriff's deputy.

According to deputies, it started just outside the Heritage Hotel when the brothers were arguing with a third man, who has not been identified.

The argument ended in gunfire when the man shot Jimenez, but Jimenez also managed to squeeze off a round that hit the man.

As Jimenez lay bleeding in the hotel parking lot, his brother, Richardson walked up to the scene holding a gun, investigators said.

It appears in the beginning that the two deputies didn't notice he had a gun, but then a woman screamed out.

"He's got a gun," a resident is heard saying in the video.

At that point, deputies reacted.

One deputy looks like she reached to grab Richardson's gun. A second deputy, however, drew his gun.

Investigators say the deputy ordered Richardson to drop his gun, and they say when he didn't, the deputy fired.

"They challenged that person, asked him to drop the gun. He refused to comply. One of the deputies discharged his weapon, striking the suspect," Orange County Sheriff's Office Undersheriff Mark Canty said.

All three men were taken to the hospital, but only one man, the third man Jimenez was arguing with, survived.

The deputy-involved shooting will be investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.