Injuries. Expected to end the shift and go to their families and not be in the situation. Reporter and this still is an active scene on eyewitness 5 i will share what the share had to say about answering Domestic Violence calls like this one and just what type of charges the suspects in the case could face. Reporting live in mims, melanie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Is starting to sound like a broken record. Day after day after day, the homeless continue to line county offices and Daytona Beach disrupting business. It is now been 41 days since the homeless camp reached crisis levels and Shannon Butler once again spent the day talking with leaders about how they will deal with it. The new a solution may be just to move them to another block . Reporter what the county decided today is they have a plan to keep the Administration Building open. This as after yesterdays plan to close it. Absolutely nothing to fix the homeless issue. Ted smith is 80 years old. He has been homeless for j
That people say they are happy. And that would just be a temporary fix. They are looking for more permanent solutions. But that will not happen today. The county property appraiser in the meantime has his Office Closed today and he said friday one of the workers in his office was accosted by a homeless he said it does not has not shut down the office indefinitely. We got our hands on the report from the worker was that she was coming in a backdoor with a badge when she opened her purse she said out of the corner of her eye, she saw 2 men maybe one of them approaching her. There was no incident and she even said on that report that she did not want to buy one but she fell pressured to do so. You can see the politics at play here but also at play is a human emotion. People showing up at this office to do business. Saying they could not believe what they saw. Property appraiser said he he does not feel safe. I think they are idiots. Did they look like they can hurt anybody . We have peopl
Community center walking 10 minutes to get here. Workers pushing crips with babies in a rush to evacuate Maitland Police a around 10 am someone at the Jewish Academy reportedly got a call from a man claiming a bomb was on the campus and he wanted to hurt as many children as possible. The person described the callers voice as sounding robotic like he may have been using a device to disguise his voice and at this point detectives do not have any other Investment Information about the quality the bomb sniffing dog from Seminole County Sheriffs Office is being brought in to sweep the buildings and make sure there are not any explosive devices and until it happens, those buildings are staying evacuated. I spoke with a dad who says he found out from our wftv website that his daughters a school was being evacuated because he had not gotten the text alert from the school yet. It was pretty scary. Did not get the text message until we were almost here already. Reporter and all of the parents we
Busess were here to take 46 people that needed to help the most. They can stay at this shelter for 90 days. But many of them chose not to. Very much just a first step to i think an ultimate solution. Reporter the Homeless People are staying put because they want more services for the longterm, leaving here does not prove that point. But in the shortterm will use this this against them. To say we offered you help, those 46 beds and you didnt take it. We are live tonight in Volusia County, shannon butler, channel 9, Eyewitness News. Orlando police have released body camera and security video of one of their officers opening fire on a teen who was initially stopped for not wearing a seat belt. From officer Jonathan Mills white car head towards him when he opened fire. Police say 17yearold trevon was behind the wheel of this stolen car, he was shot, but not seriously hurt. And is now under arrest. Officer mills is on paid leave while fdle investigates. New at 5 00, we are asking why a pris
Officer, fleeing, and grand theft of the vehicle. Officer mills is on paid leave while fdle investigates the shooting. The orlando officers did not know the vehicle was stolen until afterwards. Which is why traffic stops can be so dangerous, the officers dont know whether theres a warrant out for the driver or breaking some other law at the time of the stop. You can take another look at the body camera video right on your mart stone smartphone on wftv. Com. And dramatic new video is coming from the florida highway patrol, it shows how one trooper was hit by a car last year. The trooper walking back to his patrol car, in West Palm Beach in october. Watch, its not clear in the video, but the suv hit the car that was pulled over, right there, it also hit the trooper. You can later see him standing up. Right there. And then calling for help. Its now been three days since a volusia inmate cut off his gps monitor and ran away from a Work Release Program with his girlfriend and her 3yearold c