This is news 6 at 5 00, getting results. Im lisa bell. Im ginger gadsden. Matt austin is on assignment tonight. At 4 00 we told you the deputy was hit while trying to serve a warrant. Now at 5 00, were Digging Deeper into the suspects criminal history. It was north of colonial, not far from orlandos baldwin park community. Justin warmoth has been getting answers about this all day long. He joins us now live. Youve learned this is not the teens first runin with the law. Right, at only the age of 15, hes been charged with pretty serious crimes, including aggravated assault on a Law Enforcement officer. Hell be facing attempted murder today. Evidence markers show where the Orange County sergeant marcy pierce was thrown after 15yearold ortiz hit her with we cant estimate how fast. What i can tell you is that sergeant pierce said she could hear the engine revving and he began to increase his speed and she knew at that point that she needed to get off the hood and she dismounted from the hoo
News 6 reporter Justin Warmoth has been following the story all day long. Sergeant pierce is in her 22nd year at the Orange County Sheriffs Office. Sheriff Jerry Demings said her husband is also a sergeant with the department. In fact, he told us his wife heard the call her husband heard the call go out that his wife was struck. Sergeant marcy pierce was trying to serve a burglary warrant this morning, something shes done several times for the Sheriffs Office for the last 22 years, but the next thing she knew the suspect she was trying her. She ended up on the hood of the car. He entered the roadway and began to accelerate at a relatively high rate of speed. Just sounded like nascar starting off, tires squealing, not your average, you know, just burn rubber. It sounded like a highspeed chase. Behind the wheel, a 15yearold who has been arrested before for enforcement officer. Neighbors wonder how the juvenile Justice System allowed him to be back on the streets. Its getting to be out of
This is news 6 at 5 00, getting results. Im ginger gadsden in for matt tonight. Lisa im lisa bell. Eric williams appeared in a Seminole County courtroom this afternoon. The attorneys say the gun his niece used to shoot herself with is not his. Troy campbell is live in the courtroom today. You talked with Sanford Police. How are they dealing with this . Reporter williams was being hold without bond. That changing this afternoon. After he appeared in court, now being held on 20,000 bond. With this little girls death, we went to the police chief and asked him how does he intend to keep illegal guns out of the hands of convicts. I think that would frustrate any citizen who that someone who is a convicted felon and has a firearm. Reporter the police chief called the death preventable. If the weapon was secured properly, whether in a case or important part, if it was not in the childs reach, this child would have still been with us today. Reporter the chief says the law limits their ability
Years. Reporter police tell me they will be available tomorrow to answer all of our questions about this case. Tonight the victims family wants to tell the lead detective thank you. She was a fun person to be around. Reporter it has been 8 painful years for the family of Mayola Houser whose murder went unsolved. She did not deserve to die like that. Reporter her cousin audrey told me she found her bound and strangled in her home the day before thanksgiving. Each year we think about her and we asked god to bring justice. Reporter at that time police named Kenneth Ray Reed a suspect. Family members say he was a longtime friend which made this worse. Today is thursday. I saw him to stay in the Community Walking from the wednesday when the 63yearold was picked up during a drug operation armed with dna evidence from the crime scene, leesburg detectives jumped in and arrested him for Second Degree murder. Family members took to facebook expressing gratitude that there mayola can rest in peac
Behind me here, when police say this driver was traveling full speed, 45 Miles Per Hour, plowing into a group of cars here at the intersection of 434 and 436. Now, Family Members want to know how this driver can just walk away, especially without any charges being filed. Its like a slap in the face. It feels like a slap in the face. She says shes not even able to feel anger over todays decision by state Attorney Phil archer. His prosecutors say theres not enough evidence to convict the driver who caused this crash that killed her brother in october in altamonte springs. Two people died. The mans wife was seriously injured. I hate this. And someone gets a traffic fine for it. Its so painful. Prosecutors say the driver admitted she had taken a fall before the crash happened but claims they couldnt get a search warrant for her medical records. Without it, they say, they didnt have a case. They wrote here theres no evidence that the driver operated her vehicle with willful and wanton disre