Boating fatality: Lopez calls for an investigation into FWC for deleted body camera footage

State Rep. Vicki Lopez, whose district encompasses Key Biscayne, called for an independent investigation into the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after body camera footage was deleted involving a Biscayne Bay boating fatality, a newspaper reported Saturday.

FWC investigated the Sept. 4, 2022, boat crash that killed 17-year-old Luciana ‘Lucy’ Fernandez from Miami. Lopez told The Miami Herald the Legislature needs “to learn what exactly happened and why so this never happens again.”

The Herald reported that body camera footage from four officers with the FWC has been deleted. The officers were on the scene of the crash and were either in direct contact with or were near the boat operator, Doral real estate broker George Pino…

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