ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A 16-year-old suspect in a pair of drive-by shootings in Orange County last month will be charged as an adult, according to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office.
George Spencer Jr. was arrested Jan. 8 at a home in the 5200 block of Montague Place after being connected to the shootings, which occurred earlier that day outside a home in the 2100 block of San Jose Boulevard, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said on social media.
He faces charges of discharging a firearm on residential property, possession of a firearm by a minor, shooting from a vehicle, shooting at, within or into a building and two counts of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm.
News 6 is naming Spencer due to the circumstances of the case.
Surveillance video from the investigation shows the drive-by shootings; the first happens around 2:40 a.m. while the second doesn’t occur until almost 9 a.m.
During the first video, a Corvette can be seen pausing outside of the home along San Jose Boulevard while the sheriff’s office says its driver fires a rifle at it. The car is driven a short distance away before the driver fires at the home a second time, the video shows. With the exception of headlights, no other people seem to appear on the first video.
Footage from the second shooting shows the driver exit the Corvette and tell a group of children waiting for a bus to “go away” before he, in the middle of the street, raises a rifle and fires more shots at the house, according to the sheriff’s office.
Helicopter and body-camera video from the investigation shows the sheriff’s office closing in on the home along Montague Place later that day. Several people can be seen getting on the ground as law enforcement approaches the home from the front and rear.
A deputy who climbed over a fence to the backyard then shoots at Spencer after seeing the 16-year-old with a gun and giving him commands to no avail, after which Spencer moves into a carport and another deputy at the front of the home fires his service weapon as well, the sheriff’s office said.
Neither Spencer nor any deputies were injured in the shooting, the post states, adding there was no indication the 16-year-old fired a gun. A 24-year-old man was shot in the foot and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to the sheriff’s office.