Convicted murderer with gun is shot by Orlando police outside gas station dies, agency says

Brian Bell and Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel on Jan 4, 2025

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ORLANDO, Fla. — An armed man previously convicted of murder and shot by Orlando police Friday outside an Orange County gas station has died, according to a news release from the Orlando Police Department.

The agency identified the man Saturday afternoon as Marvin Martin, 63, in an emailed news release. The release said he died of unknown complications. Right after the shooting he was taken to a hospital and reported in stable condition.

Orlando police officers and Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the BP gas station in the 400 block of South John Young Parkway after reports around 2:20 p.m. of a man with a gun, OPD Chief Eric Smith said during a Friday afternoon news conference.

Smith said during the news conference that officers confronted the man on the sidewalk outside the gas station and he refused verbal commands to drop the gun — after which an OPD officer shot him. He faced charges including resisting without violence, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and unlawful exhibition of a firearm.

He described the incident as a scary situation.

“There’s a lot of people at the busy business of BP, so you got to make a judgment call, you got to act, you give the multiple commands to drop the gun,” Smith said. “People are at risk. You have to take action.”

Smith did not release the suspect’s name right after the incident but did say the man, now identified as Martin, served 20 years in prison for second-degree murder and was released in 2023. He said the officer who shot him was not injured and will be placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the shooting by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement — standard practice in a police shooting.

Martin’s motives were unknown but the chief said he’d been seen walking along and near South John Young Parkway brandishing the gun.