The Orlando Police Department recently announced another 18-year-old was arrested for a 2023 woman’s murder at the Jernigan Gardens Apartments.
Recently, 18-year-old Christian Amari Childs was apprehended by the Orlando Police Department’s Fugitive Investigative Unit in Osceola County.
On September 22, 2023 at approximately 2:34pm, Orlando Police responded to 1440 Mercy Drive in reference to a large group of people fighting with shots fired in the courtyard at Jernigan Gardens Apartments. According to OPD, three individuals on scene were struck by gunfire and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. A fourth gunshot victim succumbed to her injuries.
The victim, Macayla Queen Patterson, was transported to the hospital and declared deceased by medical staff.
On September 22, 2023, 23-year-old Delray Shundale Duncan Junior was arrested for Attempted Homicide and First Degree Felony Murder in connection to this shooting. 18-year-old Gary Lee Williams III was apprehended by the OPD Fugitive Investigative Unit and charged with First Degree Murder with a Firearm.
According to OPD, Childs is charged with three counts of Attempted First Degree Murder with a Firearm, Shooting at, within or into a Building, Discharging a Firearm on Residential Property and Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony.
