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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Over 4 years after a deadly police-involved taking pictures in Broward County, Miami-Dade Officer Leslie Lee who was once in touch within the taking pictures surrendered to Broward Sheriff’s Office correctional deputies on Saturday after 3 of his colleagues surrendered on Friday.
On Sunday, all over This Week In South Florida, Steadman Stahl, the president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association mentioned Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill — and no longer the 4 Miami-Dade police officers indicted had been to blame for the tragedy on Dec. 5, 2019, close to Miramar Parkway and Flamingo Road, in Miramar.
“They went into a jewelry store in Coral Gables, in Miracle Mile of all places, and went in guns blazing and shot a store employee in the head,” Stahl mentioned. “They then went in a multi-county chase, shooting at police officers.”
Stahl mentioned the Broward State Attorney’s Office persuaded a grand jury to indict Lee, 57, and Officers Richard Santiesteban, Jose Mateo, and Rodolfo Mirabal, who’s going through two counts of manslaughter with a firearm. The different 3 are each and every going through one rely of the similar rate. They had been launched with no need to post bail after their give up.
“Deciding whether to use deadly force is among the most serious and consequential decisions a police officer can make,” Broward State Attorney Harold F. Pryor mentioned in a commentary. “We understand that these decisions are often made during intense and uncertain circumstances.”
After the Regent Jeweler heist, Alexander and Hill, each 41, fled in a U-Haul van and deserted it earlier than they abducted Frank Ordonez, a UPS driving force, all over the carjacking of his UPS truck.
“When they stole the truck, if they weren’t going to do any more harm, they could have taken that driver and pushed him out, and just taken the car,” Stahl mentioned. “They knew what they were going to do. They were going to commit all kinds of savagery,”
Florida Highway Patrol soldiers and police officers with the Miami-Dade, Pembroke Pines, and Miramar departments chased after the armed burglars and their kidnapping sufferer till visitors compelled them to forestall.
Stahl mentioned Mirabal, 39; Santiesteban, 33; Mateo, 32; and Lee did what they had been meant to do.
“Every single officer, each one of them, there is 20 of them, each one is responsible for neutralizing that threat until the gunfire stops — each one of them and that’s what they did,” Stahl mentioned.
The shootout was once in the midst of rush hour. Four died: Ordonez, 27, the abduction and carjacking sufferer; Richard Cutshaw, an blameless bystander on his method house; and the 2 armed burglars.
“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an extensive investigation of the officers involved in the shootings and their circumstances,” Pryor mentioned in a commentary.
The FDLE submitted their findings to the State Attorney’s Office on Sept. 15, 2021.
.”Given the enormity of the gunfire on this incident at an especially busy intersection filled with civilian motorists and pedestrians, we introduced those businesses’ findings to the grand jury,” Pryor mentioned in a commentary.
The grand jury indicted Mirabal for the deaths of Ordonez, a father of 2 ladies, and Cushaw, 70, a union consultant who was once born in Massachusetts.
“There could have been more if those guys would have gotten out of that truck, and here was a Chick-fil-A, a CVS, there was cars around there. You could have had multiple, more hostages,” Stahl mentioned. “These guys were not going to end it. And the family that is upset, I get it. It’s misplaced anger. The devils were the two robbers that had long histories … one had just gotten out of prison after doing 20 years …
“These guys were not going to end peacefully.”
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Local 10 News Reporters Bridgette Matter and Annaliese Garcia, and Assignment Desk Planning Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this file.
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