Orlando
CRIME & SAFETY
Family mourns Orlando man killed in hit-and-run: 'I just want him back'
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Highway Patrol officials are still looking for the hit-and-run driver that killed an Orlando man walking on the sidewalk. The family of Jonnier Agosto Cortes is mourning his loss. He was killed in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, he was walking on the sidewalk on Curry Ford Road near Colton Avenue when a driver lost control of their vehicle and hit him.
Principal accused of hitting, choking student
The principal of a private Christian school has been arrested, accused of putting a student in a chokehold and beating him. Dontay "Donnie" Prophet, 33, the principal at Destiny Leadership Academy, was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment of a child after the incident that unfolded the day prior on the school's campus, the arrest affidavit said.
The Orlando CSI training program taught 30 people about bone excavation
The Orlando Police Department's Crime Scene Investigation Unit held a training for 30 people last week. The training focused on the process and skills to properly excavate human bones from the ground.
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