Im matt austin. Right now were hearing from members of the family at the center of all this. It all started when the bodies were found last night inside a home on indian street, Merritt Island south of state road 520. Amanda castro has been getting answers about this all day. She joins us now live. So i know youve just spoken with family members. What did they tell you about this terrible situation . Well, matt, the family says the father was an excellent father to his 13yearold daughter. We just saw them. They left this home not too long ago, taking some belongings out of the house with them. His sister tells us that he worked hard and long hours and thinks that could have played a role that led up to his death. Investigators found the bodies of 42yearold and his 13yearold daughter inside the home sunday night. They stopped by for a wellbeing check after family members say they didnt hear from them for days. Detectives say that they found the bodies inside the home and suicide. They havent said how the young girl died. The family says the girl just celebrated her 13th birthday on valentines day. The sister tells us the man worked long hours in the food industry, sometimes six days a week and thinks that could have led up to his death. Whats happened inside right now, i cannot say anything because i dont know. I dont know why he do like that. The Sheriffs Office is waiting to get autopsy results before ruling how the young girl died. That could take a week or longer to get those. Amanda castro live for us. Thank you. Some breaking news in Orange County now where weve learned the teen accused of running down a deputy last week is now in jail. The 15yearold turned himself in this afternoon. We first told you about this through a push alert on our news 6 mobile app this afternoon. The Sheriffs Office tells news 1 15 this afternoon. News 6 reporter Jennifer Ortega has been following this in our newsroom and joins us live. What did the sheriff have to say about this . The sheriff says ortiz turned himself in at his mothers house and had no comments to say when they took him into custody. Theyre still trying to figure out why ere hes been since friday. Investigators say ortiz turned himself in on the 800 block of high street at his mothers house. They say he cooperated when being taken into custody but a much different story last friday when detectives say ortiz deliberately ran over sergeant marcy pierce after trying to serve him a warrant. She was rushed to the hospital in Critical Condition and now recovering at home. The sheriff says hes glad they were able to get ortiz off the streets. Im very grateful that, for two reasons, one that my Deputy Sheriff is going to be okay. Two that this young man turned himself in and we did not have force to bring him into custody. Now, sergeant pierce made this video over the weekend and in it she says she was very sore, her foot is fractured and she has stitches in her head but shes at home recovering. Again, deputies located actually located the car that was used to hit the deputy. Ortiz faces a laundry list of charges, including grand theft, aggravated battery and attempted murder of a Law Enforcement officer. Hes being held at the juvenile detention center. Jennifer ortega reporting live, thank you. More breaking news. This time on the zika virus. In the last couple of hours, weve learned a new case of the virus happened in Orange County. Its the second reported case in the county, the fourth in central florida. There are now 28 reported zika cases across 10 counties statewide. So far, all cases are travel related and none involve pregnant women. You can find more on zika including travel notices, symptoms and treatment on our website. Just head to clickorlando. Com, for baby willow. The newborn was abandoned in an apartment complex parking lot one week ago. Orlando police returned to a retention pond today. Sky 6 flu over the search area near the willow bend apartments earlier today. Crews spent the weekend draining that pond. So far, they have not found any traces of the baby. Her mom, susan richardson, is charged with aggravated child neglect and is in the Orange County jail. The Sheriffs Office is teaming up with a private company to enhance security. Sheriff Jerry Demings kicked off the campaign today. News 6 reporter Troy Campbell is azalea park. He joins us now live. The county is spending a lot of money on this, right . Yeah, this isnt cheap. Also a very unique idea. Were told the money of this Law Enforcement trust fund is equipment. But starting today, its these neighborhood, private Armed Security guards, now patrolling, hoping to cut down on crime but the sheriff says this is all just a test run, only lasting a few months but costing well into the six figures. Comparing them to security guards in gated communities, wearing these uniforms, armed with a handgun. Increasing patrols to keep an extra eye in both the azalea park and Holden Heights neighborhoods. If you go into highend communities where homes sit behind gates, the first thing you often see when you get to those communities are private security officers. Back in october, the Orange County Commission Approved the use of 150,000 from a Law Enforcement trust fund. Money collected from criminal fines. Sheriff Jerry Demings says the azalea neighborhood isnt riddled with crime but chose the area because of its residents taking a proactive stand to work alongside Law Enforcement. Neighborhoods like this may the Police Resources with private security. Were using the forfeiture funds to be able to do that. The same company the county uses at the courthouse and other administration offices, even though armed, the security guards are not able to make an arrest. The Community Patrols are set to expire in a few months with sheriff demings saying hopefully the partnership can be expanded to other areas in the county. Our ultimate goal is to reduce crime and the fire of crime and victimization during the process and make the residents here feel safer as a community. And were also asking the Sheriffs Office who would be liable if a citizen filed a complaint against one of these private security guards, similar to if a citizen filed a complaint against a sheriffs deputy because of an interaction they had. Hear what they had to say about the increased patrols. Live in azalea park, Troy Campbell, news 6. Thank you. For answers in what they say was a hitandrun crash. It left a man dead and a driver facing several charges. This was the scene here along o. B. T. And americana boulevard early this morning. Were told the man crashed into a car driven by brett adams. Troopers say the man took off and adams died at the scene. Two other cars were involved in this. One witness tells news 6 he couldnt believe what he saw. I heard a boom sound and then i said, oh, my god. Thats a horrendous scene. Troopers say the man moved here from guatemala seven years ago and has never once had a drivers license. Hes in jail on 45,000 bond. Well, taking a turn here, how about the warm weather weve been having. Heres a live look outside at Daytona Beach. It is just about as good a beach day as you could ask for in february, i think. But, you know, there are always oh, yeah, chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing them all for us. How soon can we see some storms . I think well see rain in pockets in the afternoon and tonights forecast and the heavier storms are wednesday. So decent showers tonight in spots, rougher stuff wednesday. Theres your quick answer. Radar tonight, a smoke plume looks like its developed in Marion County. There will be pockets of rain that will develop as the evening wears on. Right now, were all good. Visible satellite shows the area in texas cranking up and bringing the cold front swinging our way from across gulf of mexico. Right now, its not there. Temperature reading in Daytona Beach is 73 degrees. Other temperatures for you, 68 in it palm coast and 75 at the cape. The onthetown forecast for orlando, rain chances mentionable tonight at 30 . The later it gets, the better the rain chance becomes. Temperature reading by 11 00, 67. Ill be right back in a few minutes and pinpoint overnight lows and pinpoint the breakout and the arrival of the rain and thank you, tom. You bet. Dont forget, you can get breaking weather alerts and live radar anytime on our free news 6 pinpoint weather app. Just search wkmg in your app store. New developments in the case of a woman accused of hitting a preschooler at a lake county daycare. She pleaded not guilty to charges today. Police say the director of childrens palace daycare center, kimberly read was caught on camera hitting a 4yearold with a stuffed animal. She even picked him up and dropped him on his face. She was not in court but entered the plea through her attorney. She told the court she did not hurt the boy, she was just roughhousing with him. Shes charged with child abuse. The solar bears are looking to beat homelessness and you can help them get results through social media. This saturday is faith and family night at the amway center. News 6 will bring you the game during our broadcast, the solar bears will donate a dollar. Its easy to donate. New details on the uber driver now charged in a deadly shooting spree. Police say he was working when he killed his victims. Unbelievable details. Thats just one of the things were learning about this tragedy. Next at 5 00, well hear from one man who lost two close family members in a matter of minutes. And the fallout continues after jeb bush leaves the president ial race. Why the other floridian candidate says now is the time for his campaign to surge. Youre watching news 6 at 5 00, getting results for central florida. This is i4 and michigan street in orlando. Were pinpointing some areas around town, but for this hour, were pinpointing ponce inlet. For tonight, do expect the clouds to Start Building in as temperatures only cool down into the upper 50s. But there will be a good chance of seeing scattered showers for your tuesday as temperatures warm up to about 77 degrees. It will be a warm day before the rain really starts to roll in tuesday night and as we head in 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, new developments now in the mass shooting that left six people dead and two others hurt. The uber driver charged in the shooting spree appeared before a judge and were also hearing from a man who lost two family members to this tragedy. Ginger gadsden is joining us now with the latest. The tragedy unfolded in michigan saturday night. Police in kalamazoo say jason dalton picked his victims at random. The rampage began at an apartment complex. A 17yearold and his dad were killed there. Four women were then gunned down at a Cracker Barrel restaurant. This is video of dalton as he appeared in court. The judge denied bond for him today. Hes charged with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Dalton had no criminal history. And uber says he passed a in the meantime, some family members of the victims are also coming forward. One man had close ties to two of the victims. One was his wife. Another, his sister. He says while the shootings hit him hard, hes doing his best to look forward. I cant do anything about it now. Theres nothing i can do to change it. So, you know, i just have to live with it and deal with it. Wow. Another bizarre detail in this mass shooting, investigators believe dalton might have picked up and dropped off passengers between shootings. They think he was looking for even more fares after that final attack. Of course, well continue to keep you updated on this case as it unfolds here on news 6 and on clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6. Thank you, ginger. Candidates are moving on after a busy weekend in the race for the white house. Some are riding high while others are now out of the race. Republicans are dealing with especially. Donald trump picked up a big win. Former Florida Governor jeb bush, hes out. Bushs departure from the race has other g. O. P. Candidates now scrambling to recruit donors who supported his campaign. One candidate who believes hell get a boost, florida senator marco rubio who finished second in saturdays South Carolina primary. He says bushs exit gives him more momentum. I feel very confident about our campaign moving forward in a very unusual year. Were going to continue to move forward and we look forward to continuing to add delegates to our count. As we get into the winner take all states, were going to be in a very strong position. Now so far, bush has not endorsed another president ial candidate floridas primary just more than three weeks away, march 15th. In the meantime, it is on to South Carolina for the two remaining democratic candidates. This saturdays primary comes after Hillary Clinton picked up a win over vermont senator Bernie Sanders in the nevada clinton has a doubledigit lead over sanders in South Carolina. And news 6 is giving you a chance to get in on the fun. Were giving away four tickets to universals mardi gras. If you want to win, its easy to enter. Head to facebook. Com news 6. Youll find the contest on our facebook page. Mardi gras runs on select nights from this saturday to the middle of april. The contest ends friday night at march. Dont know if youve ever been involved in the parade, people are throwing beads and you feel like youre in louisiana. Were you in the parade . I was. Mardi gras is really over. Weve had fat tuesday and Ash Wednesday and yet the hits just keep on coming. Thats the way we roll around here. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells is joining us now. Kind of a warm one out there. Loved it. She liked today better than the weekend. Thats a little crazy to me. Work. I didnt say i liked working. I said the weather this weekend. Radar tonight is good to go. No radar echoes. Weve got an echo in Marion County. Thats a smoke plume. Theres bellevue and ocala. Its not going anywhere. Its a smoke plume, i think, for some fire burning out there in Marion County. Otherwise, its not much to write home about besides that one little smoke plume. Tomorrow, and maybe even later tonight, thats going to change. Heres the visible satellite. You see the system starting to build and bubble up out there from louisiana to texas. Thats where the troublemaker is going to come from in the next 48 hours. Right now, look how warm it is, just about everywhere. I mean, even as far as detroit tonight its 36 degrees. 42 in chicago. Its february were talking about. Its 46 in kansas city. 61 in dallas and 68 in san antonio and here at home, 73 in Daytona Beach. Thats not too shabby. Melbourne, youre at 75. Wind is pushing from the southeast at 17 Miles Per Hour in melbourne. Other temperatures right now, 77 in leesburg. The villages holding at 79. 79 in lakeland. Still 81 in kissimmee. 79 in orlando for the second hour in a row. Weve dropped two degrees off our daytime high. But now, were sort of stuck there. Compared to where we are now versus where we were yesterday, were 3 degrees warmer at this hour than we were sunday afternoon. Clouds and rain forecast, by midnight, this is what radar should look like. This is what it looks like tomorrow morning at 7 a. M. So meteorologist troy bridges will be out here tracking a few Little Pockets of rain. By the afternoon tomorrow, we become a little more unsettled with all the moisture building in. Its not too rough but there will be scattered showers tomorrow afternoon. Come take a look at wednesday, though. Heres wednesday morning, 8 a. M. A line of action from Marion County to the villages. Anytime from 10 to 2 00, we rock and roll. It all pushes into the metro area around 12 or 12 30. The showers could be heavy and twisting and it could be an ugly wednesday with severe weather. Overnight lows tonight, nothing to worry about. In the 50s, low 60s. Calling the low in orlando, 64. Heres tomorrow. Ah, the pretty days are leaving us. The temperature reading tomorrow goes to 75 by noon. The daytime high in the low 80s. The scattered showers take over in the afternoon. Rain chance tomorrow, builds to about 50 . Here you go. 83 tomorrow, rain chance half and half. On wednesday, the scattered showers rock through here by midday. On thursday, friday, saturday, were so much cooler. So i cant say its time to say goodbye to the leather jackets just yet. One more go round of winter before we start the big push to the heat. Ucfs big downtown plans get another boost. Next at 5 00, the company thats committing more than a Million Dollars towards the project. First, though, tragedy in a florida neighborhood. What were learning about the shooting death of a 6yearold boy. And ahead at 5 30, i. R. S. Scammers targeting you. Now that tax season is in full swing, how to avoid getting swindled in tonights schemes and ripoffs remember, news 6 is always on clickorlando. Com, your were excited about february. 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