On the afternoon of August 2, 2025, 32-year-old Javore Tyleek Bentley, a male, was shot near the intersection of Norwich Road and South Orange Blossom Trail in unincorporated Orange County outside Orlando. Deputies responded just before 3 p.m., found him wounded near the 4100 block of South Orange Blossom Trail, and rushed him to a hospital in critical condition.
He later died of his injuries, and investigators began piecing together what happened on a summer Saturday that turned abruptly violent. Early statements from authorities offered no motive and no immediate description of a suspect, only the stark confirmation of the victim’s identity: Javore Tyleek Bentley, age 32.
As the investigation moved forward, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced a breakthrough two weeks later. On Saturday, August 16, deputies in Alachua County located and arrested 32-year-old Amber Shinice Dozier on a warrant issued from Orange County. According to local reporting and an account citing sheriff’s officials, investigators observed Dozier attempting to leave Gainesville by bus and took her into custody without incident. Authorities said the warrant was tied directly to the August 2 shooting that claimed the life of Javore Tyleek Bentley, age 32, male.
By Monday, August 18, officials publicly named Dozier as the person arrested in connection with the killing of Javore Tyleek Bentley, age 32, male, and said she faced a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm. At that time, investigators had not released additional details about what led up to the shooting or a possible motive, and there was no indication of any other suspects being sought. Coverage of the case underscored the narrow corridor of facts confirmed by law enforcement: the location, the time of day, the medical emergency that followed, and the arrest that shifted the case from an urgent search to the slow grind of the courts.
In the days after the shooting, community pages memorialized Javore Tyleek Bentley, age 32, noting the date and place of his death while linking back to official updates. Those entries reinforced the timeline and the central facts of the case now carried into the criminal proceedings—an early August afternoon, a gunfire response along South Orange Blossom Trail, the hospital battle that was lost, and the name of the person deputies say pulled the trigger. As of the most recent reports, investigators had not elaborated on motive, leaving the public record focused on the arrest, the charge, and the enduring loss of Javore Tyleek Bentley, age 32, male.
