KISSIMMEE, Fla. — An Osceola County sheriff's deputy fatally shot a woman outside a restaurant and bar in Kissimmee's Old Town district late Saturday night after she allegedly pointed a handgun at a man and refused repeated commands to drop the weapon, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is investigating the shooting.
Source: Osceola County Sheriff's Office statement, via Eye in the Sky News
The shooting happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, 2026, outside Sun on the Beach, a restaurant and bar at 5770 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee, Osceola County, Florida. The Sheriff's Office confirmed the deputy-involved shooting to WESH 2 News the same night. The woman's name and age have not been released.
Source: WESH 2 News — Deputy-involved shooting in Old Town, sheriff's office says
An argument that started inside moved out to the street
According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies were called to the bar for a disturbance and, when they arrived, found an altercation between a man and a woman that had reportedly started inside the establishment. Authorities say the woman had drawn a handgun and was following directly behind the man with the weapon pointed at his back, and that she kept following him outside while displaying the firearm.
Deputies issued multiple commands for the woman to drop the weapon, but she refused to comply, according to the Sheriff's Office. When the man turned to face the woman, she pointed the handgun at him, and a deputy fired over concerns of imminent serious bodily harm, the agency said. This account is the Sheriff's Office version of events; the FDLE investigation has not yet reported its own findings.
The woman was struck by a single gunshot, the Sheriff's Office said. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. No deputies and no one else at the scene was injured.
The deputy, and what the Sheriff's Office has — and has not — said
The deputy who fired is a seven-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office and has been placed on paid administrative leave, the agency said. Paid leave while an officer-involved shooting is reviewed is standard practice in Florida and is not, by itself, a finding of wrongdoing or of justified force. The Sheriff's Office statement, issued in the early hours after the shooting, ended with: “Nothing further at this time.”
Officials have not released the woman's identity, her age, or what started the argument inside the bar. They have also not said whether the man she was following was injured in any way before the shooting — the Sheriff's Office says he was not hurt in the incident — or whether surveillance or body-camera video of the encounter will be released.
What is solid
- A deputy shot the woman once outside Sun on the Beach in Kissimmee shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, and she died at a local hospital — Osceola County Sheriff's Office statement, confirmed to WESH 2 News.
- The FDLE is investigating the shooting, and the deputy, a seven-year veteran, is on paid administrative leave.
- No deputies or other people were injured, according to the Sheriff's Office.
What is only claimed
- Why the deputy fired rests, so far, entirely on the Sheriff's Office account: that the woman pointed a handgun at the man after refusing commands to drop it. No independent witness account or video has been published yet, and the FDLE has not issued findings.
Why an outside agency is investigating
In Florida, the FDLE routinely investigates shootings involving local officers at the agency's request, so that the review is done by investigators who do not work for the department involved. FDLE agents typically interview witnesses, collect video and examine the deputy's account against the physical evidence. Their findings are then sent to the local State Attorney, who decides whether the shooting was justified under Florida law or whether the case should go to a grand jury or to trial. That process usually takes weeks to months, and the woman's identity is normally released once her family has been notified.
The corner where it happened
West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway is U.S. Highway 192, the main tourist corridor through Kissimmee, lined with restaurants, bars, motels and gift shops serving visitors to the Orlando-area theme parks a short drive away. Sun on the Beach sits in Old Town, the long-running open-air shopping and entertainment district on that corridor, which draws crowds on weekend nights. Saturday-night disturbances in the district are a recurring call for deputies, but fatal deputy-involved shootings there are rare.
What happens next
The FDLE investigation is now the central track: its agents will establish whether the sequence described by the Sheriff's Office — the drawn handgun, the refused commands and the turn toward the man — matches video and witness evidence. The Sheriff's Office is expected to release the woman's name after family notification, and any decision on the deputy's actions will follow the State Attorney's review of the FDLE file. Awaaz Punjab will update this story when the FDLE or the Sheriff's Office releases those findings.