ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Sheriff’s investigators kept busy early Friday at two separate crime scenes involving shootings in Orange County.
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In east Orlando, deputies responded to Downey Hill Street off Dean Road just before 11 p.m. Thursday.
At the scene, they said a man told them he was in a car when he was shot by someone whom he didn’t know.
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said that the victim was taken to a hospital but that his injuries were not life-threatening.
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Shortly after midnight, deputies were dispatched to a neighborhood in northwest Orange County for a shooting reported along Lake Andrea Circle near Mount Dora.
At that location, deputies found a man, in his 50s, who had been shot.
Investigators told Channel 9 that they took a suspect into custody near where the shooting happened.
The victim also received treatment at a hospital and is expected to recover.
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OCSO did not release details about possible motives for either shooting incident.
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