Vigil Held For UPS Driver Frank Ordonez, Killed Two Years Ago In Miramar During Police Shootout

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MIRAMAR (CBSMiami) – A radical of radical laid flowers and candles, and released balloons into the sky, for Frank Ordonez.

On December 15th, 2019, Ordonez, a UPS driver, was taken hostage by 2 men, Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, who stole his motortruck aft robbing a Coral Gables jewelry store. They led constabulary connected a high-speed two-county chase.

It came to an extremity erstwhile the UPS motortruck encountered stopped postulation astatine an intersection astatine Miramar Parkway conscionable westbound of Flamingo Road.

Police got retired of their vehicles and approached the motortruck with their weapons drawn, utilizing bystanders’ vehicles arsenic cover.

Seconds later, a barrage of gunshots rang out. A full of 20 officers, from the antithetic agencies, fired into the carjacked UPS truck. More than 3 twelve rounds were fired.

Ordonez, Alexander, Hill, and a bystander, Richard Cutshaw, were killed.

Two years later, Ordonez’s household is inactive mourning the nonaccomplishment of their loved one.

“We miss him truthful overmuch and contiguous it’s highly hard for america to cognize helium is not present anymore,” said Ordonez’s sister Genevie Merino.

Ordonez’s sister said not a time goes by that she does not retrieve her brother.

“It’s truthful achy not having your member and his companionship,” said Genevie.

Ordonez near down 2 daughters.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement continues to analyse the shooting, truthful acold nary officers person faced immoderate charges.

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“We inquire for justness for him and his girls and his household due to the fact that we miss him a lot,” said Merino.