Overview
- Sheriff John Mina said a deputy confronted 48-year-old Jason Anthony Beal outside the East Colonial Drive Walmart, deployed a stun gun that had no effect, then fired after ordering, “Don’t reach” three times.
- Beal, who was wearing a ski mask and pushing a cart of merchandise, was found with knives, treated for non-life-threatening wounds, charged with armed robbery with a deadly weapon and resisting with violence, and booked on $15,000 bond.
- The Orange County deputy was placed on paid administrative leave as FDLE and the sheriff’s office investigate, and the deputy’s name will be released later under agency practice.
- Records show Beal was released on Feb. 3 after prosecutors missed a 33-day deadline to file charges in a prior stabbing case; a similar 2023 case was later dropped under State Attorney Andrew Bain.
- In the earlier Osceola County case, the sheriff’s office released a brief edited body-camera clip and identified Deputy Terrence Blackmon, with FDLE examining the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jairus Eroge Jones.