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Police take Naiheem Charlin into custody for his role in a shooting Tuesday in Poinciana. PHOTO/OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE -
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Osceola County Sheriff's deputies block off streets during a police standoff Tuesday in Poinciana. PHOTO/ROCHELLE STIDHAM -
Osceola County Sheriff's deputies block off streets during a police standoff Tuesday in Poinciana. PHOTO/ROCHELLE STIDHAM -
Sheriff Marco Lopez on scene.
Osceola County Sheriff's investigators made an arrest in an incident Tuesday in Poinciana, where a resident said another local man shot at him.
Naiheem Charlin, 25, was arrested and charged with attempted felony murder and discharging a firearm in public. He's being held in the Osceola County Jail on no bond.
The police standoff began at a home on Basingstoke Court off New Castle Road, not far from Koa Elementary, Tuesday around 9 a.m. and went into the afternoon. A neighbor called police and said a neighbor had shot at him.
According to an arrest affadavit obtained by the News-Gazette, the victim went from a walk from his Basingstoke Court home, crossed New Castle, and continued south onto Bassett Drive. He saw a male, later identified as Charlin at the door of a home on that street. The suspect called out, "Who are you? What are you doing?" and when the victim ignored him, he observed the suspect draw a black handgun from his waistband and fire two rounds toward him, which both missed. The victim fled back toward his home, "in fear for his life" according to the report, and in fleeing did not see the suspect anywhere around the Bassett Drive house.
Sheriff's research showed Charlin lives on that block, and the victim later picked him out of a photo lineup.
Late Tuesday, Sheriff Marcos Lopez said on a post at the Sheriff Office's Facebook page that, after saturating the area with SWAT and a K-9 unit and searching the residence and the immediate area, Charlin was apprehended, arrested and jailed. He's scheduled to make his initial appearance in front of a judge Wednesday afternoon.
"Poinciana, we're going to keep you safe, we're going to keep cleaning up the streets," Lopez said on the Facebook "You Call, We Come" post. "We're making sure these wannabe gangsters don't harm our citizens."
Charlin, a 2015 Liberty High graduate and former member of the Chargers football team, had a 2019 felony weapons charge (carrying a concealed weapon without a permit) pled down to misdemeanor resistance without violence and spent 126 days in jail.
