Deputies arrest second man in connection to fatal shooting outside Kissimmee lounge last year

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man wanted for his role in a deadly shooting in the parking lot of a local nightclub.

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Friday, deputies arrested 29-year-old Joshua Franceschi at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in Kissimmee on an arrest warrant.

According to his arrest affidavit, Kissimmee Police Department received a tip from Crimeline about a man being transported to the hospital under the alias “Juan Rivera,” but it was Franceschi.

Franceschi was arrested for Premeditated Murder and Battery from a shooting incident on November 14, 2023, at 3262 Oxford Drive in Kissimmee.

Read: One person arrested, second suspect sought in fatal shooting outside Kissimmee lounge

Investigators said Franceschi acted in the death of Joshua Daniel Mitchell, who was found in a parking lot with a single gunshot wound.

According to investigators the night of the incident, investigators said Christopher Garrett and Franceschi coordinated the attack on Mitchell.

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