SUNDAY 5 P.M. : The Osceola County Sheriff's Office announced Sunday morning it had made an arrest in Saturday's deadly shooting in the Bay Lakes Estates area east of St. Cloud.
Joshua Michael Alan Miller, who turned 29 on Wednesday, was arrested and charged with felony murder with a firearm and burglary of a conveyance by battery with a firearm.
The post, nor a press release issued late Sunday afternoon, did not note where the arrest took place, but a site that logs flight plans show that the Sheriff's helicopter was circling over the area of Nolte Road and Michigan and Indiana Avenues.
According to the Sheriff's Office, the Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit responded to the home on Bronco Drive Saturday around 1 p.m. after a 911 call was received regarding a victim who was shot in the driveway. The victim, Joseph Beck, 29, later died at the hospital from the injury.
Miller reportedly fled the scene and from law enforcement. By late Saturday, the Sheriff's Office said it had obtained an arrest warrant for Miller for the deadly shooting.
SATURDAY: Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives continue to seek a person of interest who may have been involved in a deadly Saturday shooting in the Bay Lakes Estates area east of St. Cloud.
During the early afternoon, deputies said they were called to a home on Bronco Drive just off Old Melbourne Highway in reference to a shooting. Witnesses noticed a police presence in the area just after 2 p.m., with paramedics and the Sheriff's STAR aerial unit in the area. Deputies said a man was shot during a gathering. The victim was transported to a local hospital and died from his injuries. Sheriff Marcos Lopez called the shooting an isolated incident.
Law enforcement is searching for Joshua Michael Alan Miller, 29, in connection to the incident. Social media posts related to the incident noted the suspect is known to frequent and could be in Suburban Estates, near Holopaw.
"If you come in contact with the above listed person of interest, please use caution and contact the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office immediately," a Sheriff's Office release noted Saturday night.
Miller has an extensive arrest record, with arrests for assault, escaping police, drug possession, burglary and grand theft going back to 2014, and served two and a half years in prison through 2018 on the burglary charge. He was in the Osceola County Jail as recently as March 7, 2024, per Department of Corrections records.
