And he began to increase his speed, and she knew at that point she needed to get off the hood. Michelle investigators say the fall knocked her out. The probation officer hit the emergency button on the deputy s radio to get help. You are not on his side. No, i am not on his side. Michelle why . If you are a criminal, then there are places for you to be. Michelle emotions in the neighorhood ran deep and very mixed. You feel very strongly about this. I do. It makes no sense for today s youth to be doing the crime that they are doing. Laws need to be tougher on them. I don t think they got rubber bumpers, and jumping in front of cars and thinking they are not going to get hit when these kids don t care about their own life, so what makes you think they are going to care about your life to stop . Michelle ortiz is only 15 years old but he has quite a rap sheet, aggravated assault on a Law Enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding the armed burglary. Now he is facing charges of jim sheriff Jerry Demings held a News Conference almost immediately after Sergeant Pearce was struck. He spoke about her work ethic and personality. While her injuries were called serious, Sergeant Pearce was dismissed from the hospital and sent home, where she is now recovering. Wesh 2 s greg fox talked with her husband, and joins us live at the Sheriff S Office. So greg how is she doing . ,greg she is doing remarkably well considering what she has been through. I talked to her for a good time on the phone with Sergeant Paul smalley, her husband. He is also the president of the local union that represents a deputies in the Orange CountySheriff S Office. While she is recovering, she has said she wants to be at work monday morning. That may not happen, but she is on the road to recovery. Jerry demings she has a very jovial personality, but still she understands that she was in greg sheriff Jerry Demings was clearly relieved minutes after learning that one of his sergeants, run down by a teen suspect, would pull through. She dismounted from the vehicle and received significant head injury as well as apparently injuries to her hand , her foot, and her back. Greg Sergeant Marcy Pearce has been featured in several wesh 2 news reports, including here two years ago at a blood drive in honor of fallen deputy scott fine. And here leading an antibully campaign. She s been with the office for 22 years. Sheriff demings says she s lucky to be alive after her runin with 15yearold Jancarlos Ortiz. Jerry demings this was a bold action that this young man took and that s really the sad part of this. 15yearsold and already been in trouble with the law and again today taking the action that he him accountable. Greg accountable, given the teen s arrests, that leave the sheriff unsatisfied with the juvenile justice system. Jerry demings sometimes i m disappointed in the system and being able to keep violent offenders off the street regardless of their age and this , is one of those times. We ll work through all of that , i m not sure a love the details why he was not in custody at this point, but we ll work through that. Greg right now it s unclear if deputies track down ortiz, if he ll be brought here to the Sheriff S Office or straight to juvenile detention for the weekend. As for marcy pearce, even if she comes back to work it quickly, it won t be for long. She is scheduled to retire in october. Jim she will be sore tomorrow. Wesh 2 will be monitoring the latest on the search for the teen driver throughout the night. You can catch uptotheminute information online, at wesh. Com. We re following some breaking a ninth Circuit Court judge has just ruled that the city may not be following the law when it comes to determining if you re due a red light camera ticket. Right now the cameras are run by a private company, which makes the initial determination if you ve broken the law, and then sends the videos to the city for processing. The Circuit Court ruled that letting the private company decide if there has been an infraction is against the law. Wesh 2 is still working through the ruling, to find out what this means. The city does not agree with the decision and are evaluating options regarding an appeal. Angela late breaking tonight on the zika front, a case has now been diagnosed in Orange County. This is florida s 26th case and the third here in Central Florida. Osceola and brevard counties each have one zika case apiece. The Florida Department of health says all cases are travelrelated, and do not involve pregnant women. Right now the search continues for a newborn missing in Orange County. On tuesday, police searched the apartments on silver star road. Police think a woman gave birth in the lot and got rid of the baby. The following days the search area expanded beyond the complex. And today, dive teams focused on a retention pond a few blocks away on dardanelle road. Chopper 2 was over the pond just before noon. You can see that a team took part in the search but so far, wesh 2 s Gail Paschall Brown she joins us live with more. Gail . Greg Orange CountySheriff S OfficeRecovery Team was out here for hours. Now they have packed up. The next step is to get permission to train the retention pond. Gail there was big black bag , but once divers got their hands on it, it had nothing to do with the search of baby willow. Sheriff out to search the pond, which is not far from the willow bend apartment complex on silver star road in orlando. At times, divers stopped, checked, but all they brought up was grass. The mother gave birth to a baby girl sometime monday. They know she was on foot. Detectives found the placenta and after birth in the parking lot of willow bend. The medical examiner says, it appeared to be a later term human placenta. A friend of Susan Richardson s doubts that. How big was she . Ok, imagine me real skinny with this right here. This is how big she was. It wasn m getting ready to have a baby. No, it was like, maybe six months. Gail and that was about three weeks ago . Yeah. Gail Susan Richardson is charged with aggravated child neglect and child desertion. Orlando Police Detectives say, richardson said she did not want the baby and decided to leave it on the front door step of a random residence in the willow bend apartments. The pond, the middle of it, below the surface and on a boat , but so far nothing. A friend says she s not a bad person, Susan Richard just needs help. Richardson and her boyfriend Johnnie Bryant have three children together. They give them to relatives. Johnny has his daughter, all of them are his. Johnny had the older daughter which he takes good care of. Gail investigators want to know with a newborn is as they continue to search for the baby girl. Today marks day four of the search. They are asking for permission to drain a retention pond behind me. Jim today an Orange County judge rules against a local man who tried to withdraw his guilty plea on charges he slashed a women s throat. Douglas reed was arrested back in july. Police say he attacked a 70yearold woman in her home on crane strand drive, just off of north goldenrod. Last month, reed appeared in court, and instead of pleading guilty as part of a deal with the court, stood up and announced he was not guilty. To plead not guilty. He will now spend the rest of his life in prison. Angela the deltona man accused of killing his wife and his step children has dropped his demand for a speedy trial. Luis toledo was back in court this morning. It was the time a judge was supposed to hear his motion, but his team quickly withdrew it. Prosecutors are asking for the Death Penalty, but florida s Death Penalty can t be applied right now because of the recent Supreme Court ruling deeming it unconstitutional. Toledo will be back in court at the end of the month. It s possible a trial date could be set then. And we have new information on another arrest made in connection to a deadly nightclub shooting in orlando earlier this month. Last night Police Arrested 21yearold jose lopez. This is actually his second arrest in the case. Police originally charged him with firing a gun inside the glitz nightclub. Police say both lopez and luis cruz nazario, who was also arrested last night, are involved in the shooting that wounded 10 people and killed 2. Ve seized a stash of guns and drugs. Officers were on carver street last night and noticed a group of suspiciouslooking characters standing around a car. The officers say they as approached the group, all of them started to hurl and hide items under the car. The items wound up being these guns, marijuana, and crack cocaine. No arrests have been announced, but we re told charges are pending. Angela a man accused of breaking into a local church and stealing money appeared before a judge today. He said he had good reason for his actions. Jim wesh 2 s dan billow reports, the money was supposed to go to help homeless people, which is exactly what the accused is. Sir . Dan 59yearold Peter Doroszkiewicz seemed to have a hard time understanding what was happening to him. My hearing s kinda low. Dan investigators say he broke into Divine Mercy Catholic Church at least twice and ended up charged with 16 crimes 10 felonies and six misdemeanors. In court, he seemed to plead for help. Are you able to hire an no. I have no income, i have nothing. I ll appoint the public defender s office to represent you. I live on the streets. Dan detectives say the money stolen had been collected to give to the poor. The Merritt Island church s poor box was forced open with a screwdriver. Pleading his case, doroszkiewicz seemed to say he qualifies for that money. Good luck. The only reason i did it is i needed the money. That s it. All right. Well, you have a right to remain silent. Dan a Church Administrator declined to talk about the burglaries. Detectives say the church s security cameras showed doroszkiewicz stealing the money. The judge solved one of doroszkiewicz s problems by setting a bail he won t be able to pay. Now he can live here at the Brevard County jail. Jim things get nasty in South Carolina. Angela we are less than one day away from the palmetto state primary and republicans are in , an all out sprint for votes. But will ted cruz pull off a surprise victory . Plus, the world says goodbye to one of its finest authors and Pulitzer Prize winners. Jim and spreading quickly. We re watching the fight to put out a massive grass fire, which plains. Angela some sad news to pass along tonight. Harper lee has died. She s the Pulitzer Prize winning author of to kill a mockingbird. She was also the recipient of the medal of honor. To kill a mockingbird, which was published in 1960, is often named as one of the finest american novels ever written. It examines the racial troubles of all the deep south all , through the eyes of a young girl named scout. Harper lee was 89yearsold. Jim Justice Antonin Scalia s body has returned to washington, d. C. Right now, he s lying in repose in the great hall of the Supreme Court. His flagdraped casket was brought into the Court Building this morning, and all day, hundreds of people have turned out to bid Justice Scalia farewell. President obama and first Lady Michelle stopped by this afternoon to pay their respects. While the nation remembers Justice Scalia, the candidates for president are turning the a hotbutton issue on the campaign trail. Angela republicans want president obama to reserve the right for the next president. They re taking that message to the voters in South Carolina, who will turn out tomorrow to vote in the primary. Jim wesh 2 s Adrian Whitsett joins us live from the palmetto state with the latest from the campaign trail. Adrian . Adrian guys, the latest is cruz has overtaken donald trump in the most recent nbc News National poll, so trumps lead in the palmetto state is only about five point. It is quickly eroding. Voters i spoke to seem to have their minds made up, and a last minute endorsement here in the state may have severe or great repercussions for one florida candidate. As donald trump slips from a commanding 16 point lead down to just five in the latest nbc newswsjmarist poll here in the palmetto state his supporters , still think victory is at hand. Adrian heading to get more yard signs after his were stolen, robert wickiser says trump s message is clear. He speaks to me and not at me. He s not telling me what he wants to do for me, he s telling me he s going to try to fix stuff. Adrian but others like ted cruz at 23 and marco rubio at 15 , there s still a lot of ground to cover. Amy dempsey the president has to be someone that my governor can work with. Adrian amy dempsey supported cruz until thursday, when South Carolina governor nikki haley endorsed Rubio Amy Dempsey i think in sc after nikki haley gave her support behind rubio it might be him. Adrian jeb bush, who many experts believe needs to come in better than fourth here to remain a viable hopeful is only two points behind his former protege. Campaigning in greenville with his mom barbara, trying to make a last minute rally in the same state that rescued his brother s campaign back in 2000. Evan banville he s got the most experience out of anybody in there. He governed a state. He is a businessman he doesn t , have experience in this field and he s too much of a hothead. Adrian the polls here in South Carolina run from 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. We could be in for a long night. The permit a state has just over 2 million registered republican voters, and they also, the winner will get the majority of the 50 delegates from this estate to the national convention. It is a big one. Life in greenville , Adrian Whitsett, wesh 2 news. Jim these are coming down to the wire. Be sure to follow adrian s reporting on air and online tomorrow. He ll be live with the results of the race, and the final push for votes, up until the last ballot has been cast. You can catch his reports starting tomorrow on wesh 2 news at 6 00. Angela two Tony Mainolfi is joining us. Maybe a tad bit cooler today, tony when the warm it up a bit , except on the coast where the water has a cooling influence on the coast line. No one will be complaining with this forecast. A few clouds, if you have plans for dinner in and around the Central Florida, downtown, you will be in great shape. Temperature setting at 70 degrees right now. The wind is coming off the atlantic at about 15 miles an hour. You can see the marine deck pushing to the east from the south and west. We had it rotating in throughout the day. The breakers the theme for tonight, a little overdone. We cannot see any sprinkles in Brevard County. On the coast, we have readings in the 60 s while inland, it is relatively warm. 71 in leesburg. Hourbyhour in orlando, downtown falling to 60 by 10 00. The coast and 59 at 10 00. If you are having fun, you are going to be in good shape. 9 30, mainly clear, temperature at 60 degrees. Osceola state fair, rodeo day today. A perfect, comfortable nice night. Temperatures falling to 60 by 11 00. Overnight low in kissimmee around 53. Cooler at ocala at 58. There will be some fog as winds will be lighter. We will provide you with an update at 10 00 and 11 00. We have the deep easterly flow, along period swells, we will have to watch that. On sunday, eastsoutheasterly wind, temperatures in the upper 70 s in the interior. Lower 70 s on the immediate coastline. The enchanted 10k, 5 30, 10 00 a. M. At 60. Pictureperfect. But at the Verde Mount Dora 76. Altamonte springs 77. Bunnell, upper 60 s. New smyrna beach at 73. Brevard county, cocoa beach is a 73, palm bay 74. 53, fog burning off, noon, 75. The pollen will get a lot of you this weekend, so make sure you have your medicine ready to go. Let s look at the race on saturday. The power stays qqq. Cloud, sunny, dry, comfortable. Let s look at the updated sevenday forecast. Up and good till next week. We have a few storms coming tuesday and wednesday. Jim coming up, a woman gets more than she bargained for when she opens up a can of green beans. Angela she took pictures before going right to the company and demanding answers. Plus, a nasty wreck does on a d. C. I dont know what im doing. I cant find anything just when i think its just not going to work. This woman that works there comes over and asks can i help you . And he was so happy, to do it amazing right . I never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. Make that go out of their way for me. Right then, right there he was so helpful i know its such a small thing little thing. Simple thing but it made me smile made m