FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – Broward County Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra is hearing more testimonies Tuesday as a former police officer fights charges stemming from a shootout that claimed the life of an UPS driver, with the cop claiming protection under the state’s “stand your ground law.”
Four Miami-Dade Police officers are charged with manslaughter in the death of UPS driver Frank Ordonez and bystander Richard Cutshaw following the 2019 shootout, which began as a cross-county pursuit between several officers and a pair of suspected jewelry store robbers who stole a UPS truck and had Ordonez on board.
“This is a split-second decision that had to be made, no time to make a command as such, and unfortunately, multiple civilian vehicles were used as cover,” said a Miami-Dade deputy Bryan Young, who was on officer at the time of the shooting…