New details emerge in weekend shootout

An armed woman sent customers and employees fleeing from a McDonald’s restaurant off Orange Blossom Trail before a shootout and six-hour standoff with deputies that stretched into Sunday morning, according to the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office.

No one was injured during the gunfire exchange, the agency said.

The woman was identified Monday as 30-year-old Shandricka Warren. She was booked into the Orange County Jail on one charge of burglary in a structure with a firearm, though more charges are expected, the Sheriff ’s Office said.

The three deputies involved were placed on paid administrative leave as the shooting is investigated, the agency said.

Deputies responded to the McDonald’s around 10:35 p.m. Saturday after getting an armed robbery call about a woman who fired a handgun inside the restaurant and made threatening statements, OCSO said.

The employees who fled the business told deputies Warren entered the McDonald’s and started “acting erratically,” according to an affidavit for an arrest warrant, which states it was written as authorities negotiated with Warren during the standoff.

Warren walked behind the counter and into the kitchen area, where a manager told her she could not be there and needed to leave, the affidavit said. But Warren refused and, while behind the counter, pulled out a handgun with a drum magazine attached, according to the report.

“Shandricka ... leveled the firearm, possibly pointing it at an unknown customer,” the affidavit said. “This caused the employees to be in fear for their lives and flee the business.”

The employees and customers were able to escape unharmed. Warren started firing rounds inside the McDonald’s, which deputies could hear when they arrived at the restaurant, the affidavit said.

Warren then shot at them from inside the restaurant and deputies returned fire, the Sheriff ’s Office said.

“Shandricka is currently barricading herself inside the business and this warrant is being sought to take [her] into custody,” Detective David Belardes wrote in the affidavit seeking a warrant.

Authorities tried to negotiate a peaceful surrender with Warren and she came out of the restaurant around 4:45 a.m., according to the agency.

OCSO said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting and turn over its findings to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office for review before the agency conducts its own internal investigation.