deaths of two veteran officers that happened in kissimmee, florida. speculation indicating they were surprised by gunfire upon arriving at the scene. so here is the police chief, jeff odell, on increasing difficulties facing law enforcement. it is getting tough. it is getting tough to do the job that we ve all sworn to protect and uphold and maintain liveable neighborhoods, keep people safe and these senseless acts are going on. so joining us now by the phone is ken jacks, a reporter for the osceola news gazette so give us the latest on what we understand about what happened there. well, about 9:30 last night, officer baxter basically did a a suspicious person check and called for back-up and sergeant howard was that back-up and then like you heard from chief odell, this quickly turned
into an ambush. they were may have been some kind of scuffle and ultimately there was the shooting. you had the suspect who is in custody and has been charged with first-degree murder, everett glenn miller. he actually ran about two or three blocks away to a bar where he was he was caught there by sheriff s officers who when we then to detain him, miller actually went for his waistband, where he had a 9 millimeter and a .22-caliber pistol on him. what odell called the heroic acts of three or four sheriffs deputies, they went in, attackled him and apprehended him and he was taken into custody about 11:30 last night. and ken, quickly, what more do we know about why police were called to the scene. again this is an area known for
drug activity. do we know something that was happening or something that h had gone down that had had gone down that brought him there in the first place. you had miller and a couple of others who were standing on a street corner. i have been mining my police contacts, we can t confirm whether there was actually drug activity going on at the time. but that is what baxter originally was responding to. and had howard come in as back-up. all right. ken, keep us posted. we ll let you get back to work. that is ken jackson, reporter with the osceola news gazette. and back to boston with authorities pulling off the dueling rallies in the city. protests against a controversial rally of right wing speakers. they raised concern about potential violence but in the end this was mostly a peaceful day with tens of thousands