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State Attorney Andrew Bain announced an update on Thursday related to a deadly shooting by deputies in a Target parking lot.

A grand jury on Wednesday recommended the Osceola County Sheriff's Office to create, update and implement policies regarding tactical vehicle takedowns in the wake of a deadly deputy-involved shooting outside a Target in Kissimmee in 2022, according to a press release from the State Attorney's Office.

Osceola County deputy sheriffs could have avoided killing Jayden Baez in April 2022 if not for their faulty judgment and their department’s poorly crafted policies on the use of appropriate force in response to minor crimes, a grand jury report released Thursday concluded. The report, announced by Orange-Osceola State Attorney Andrew Bain, slams the deputies’ tactics in the minutes leading to ...

Twenty minutes and 47 seconds. That’s how long Osceola County deputies had over the course of the slowly-evolving incident that began with a reported shoplifting at a Kissimmee Target and ended with their killing of 20-year-old Jayden Baez. That amount of time offered many chances to pursue a different outcome. Security guards might have stopped Baez’s companions early on when they observed ...

In his first community forum since his controversial appointment, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Andrew Bain convened law enforcement leaders in Orlando Thursday night to counsel the public on how best to interact with police. The meeting, put together with the assistance of the Florida Economic Consortium, focused on so-called de-escalation practices—essentially, ways for citizens and law ...

This is the chilling moment an Ohio mass murderer approached police telling them he had killed five members of his family, only for police to think he is joking or mentally ill.

The sheriff said he’s already making changes to their policies regarding shooting into cars and using the box technique.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Osceola County Sheriff Marcos López on Wednesday said he will make changes in policy and personnel in his department following a grand jury decision not to charge two deputies over the controversial killing of Jayden Baez in a Target parking lot. One policy change would be to limit the use of “boxing” — officers stationing their vehicles around a suspect’s vehicle to block its ...

There are new developments in a 2022 deputy-involved shooting outside a Target store in Kissimmee that left one man dead and three other men hurt.

State Attorney Andrew Bain provided an update Tuesday on a shooting that happened in April 2022 at a Kissimmee Target.