September 2023 News

Attorneys have officially filed a federal lawsuit against Osceola County’s sheriff and two deputies in connection with the 2022 encounter and shooting outside a Target store in Kissimmee in which one person was killed and two others were hurt. Attorneys Mark NeJame and Albert Yonfa...

The attorneys for the young men shot by Osceola County deputies last year are now taking Sheriff Marcos Lopez and those deputies to federal court. In April 2022, deputies were conducting a training exercise near Target on U.S. 192 in Kissimmee when they were called about a theft at the store...

Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez is being accused of establishing a violent policing culture. That’s alleged in a lawsuit just filed against him and two sheriff’s deputies after a deadly encounter at a Target last year. The lawsuit is in response to one particular incident, but in it, Sheriff Lopez is accused of fostering an ...

Lawyers for the family of Jayden Baez filed a civil rights lawsuit against Osceola County Sheriff Marcos López and two deputies accused of excessive force in killing the 20-year-old and injuring two others in a Target parking lot last year while trying to apprehend them for suspected shoplifting. The federal lawsuit claimed the deputies who were practicing “dynamic”...

Surveillance video from the night of an officer-involved shooting at a Target in Kissimmee in April of last year shows what happened before 20-year-old Jayden Baez was shot and killed and three other men with him, Ian Joi, Joseph Lowe, and Michael Gomez were injured. The group is accused of stealing Pokémon cards and a pizza from the store...

The decision of whether to charge Osceola County deputy sheriffs who shot and killed 19-year-old Jayden Baez in a Target store parking lot in Kissimmee will be made by a grand jury, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Andrew Bain told reporters Thursday. The move is part of a new policy announced by Bain in which uses of force by cops...

Suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell confirmed the existence of an investigation into the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office’s handling of several cases, sparked by discrepancies in reports filed after a 2022 shooting that killed a 19-year-old at a Target store parking lot. In remarks published by The Daily Beast on Monday, Worrell said that her investigation was in its final stages...