HAINES CITY, Fla. — A Haines City Police Officer is in the hospital after being shot throughout a visitors cease.
“He thought he was going to die last night,” stated Interim Haines City Police Chief Loyd Stewart.
Investigators stated round 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, officer Dwight Rogers pulled over a rushing automobile on the intersection of Highway 27 and Glen Este Blvd.
The driver Luis Feliciano was arrested after he refused to offer the officer his license and registration. The automobile which is registered underneath Feliciano’s girlfriend, Daribel Orozco, had a suspended tag.
Other officers arrived on scene to again up Rogers. Officers on scene contacted the registered proprietor, Daribel Orozco and knowledgeable her of the scenario and gave her permission to come back and retrieve private gadgets from the automobile earlier than it was towed. Orozco arrived with her brother, David Orozco to the scene and have been very combative, demanding to know why Feliciano was being arrested.
“We do see a number of people who are challenging the officers’ actions and doing so in an inappropriate manner,” Stewart stated.
Officers ordered Daribel and David to return to their automobile and go away the scene a number of instances they usually have been met with confrontation and refusal. With Daribel and David resisting orders, they have been positioned underneath arrest.
While officer Rogers tried to arrest David Orozco, he reached for the officer’s gun and managed to drag the trigger via the holster.
“He never was able to get the gun out of the holster. He was able to get his finger into the trigger guard and pull the trigger,” Stewart stated.
Rogers was shot in the precise leg and was flown to the hospital. David Orozco faces a number of expenses together with resisting an officer with violence and tried felony homicide with a weapon.
“We asked the suspect why he was trying to get the officer’s weapon and he said he blacked out and doesn’t remember, but he always wants to protect his family,” Stewart stated.
The police division is getting its holsters changed with a distinct design, to stop one thing like this from occurring once more.
We have been on scene final evening. I gave route to our employees to start investigating a substitute for that, as a result of we have to get that mounted now,” Stewart stated.