On the night of November 23, 2025, officers in Orlando responded shortly after 10 p.m. to reports of gunfire in the Washington Shores neighborhood and found a man with an apparent gunshot wound in the 3400 block of Columbia Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene and later identified by the Orlando Police Department as 42-year-old Brian Blackshear, a Black / African American man from Orlando.

Police cordoned off a residence and a stretch of the street while crime-scene teams processed the area. Investigators focused part of their attention on an SUV parked at the house; a tow truck was seen removing a vehicle from the property as detectives worked. The medical examiner removed Blackshear’s body after the initial investigation steps, and authorities are treating the case as a homicide.

As of November 24, 2025, police had not released a motive, named a suspect, or announced any arrests and described the investigation as active. Friends, family, and others have added tributes to online gun-violence memorial pages. If anyone has information about the shooting on Columbia Street that night, please contact Orlando police or submit a tip through their channels.