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Jury selection begins in murder trial of Winter Garden man accused of shooting ATV rider

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Monday, November 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM · 1 min read
Jury selection begins in murder trial of Winter Garden man accused of shooting ATV rider — Clermont Community news

Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the Orange County murder trial of the man accused of fatally shooting an ATV rider outside a Winter Garden apartment complex in February 2025.According to police, when officers arrived at the 1,000-block of Horizon Street, they found Ja’Keem DeShun Williams, 32, dead next to the ATV. Witnesses said Ralph Hensel, 57, walked toward Williams and shouted at him before firing two shots. Surveillance video showed Hensel had walked from the leasing office area with a firearm, moved around a nearby building, and appeared to lie in wait before shooting Williams as he rode past.Investigators said Hensel told witnesses after the shooting, “I killed him.”Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Hensel had previously threatened ATV riders at the complex.“Based on what people have told the family, who live there, he had a tendency to try to intimidate people from riding on their ATVs in the lot that was next to the apartment complex, and people did it on a regula

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