Family Outraged After Cop Escapes Charges For Crash That Killed 92-year-old Grandmother On Her Way Home From Bingo

A Florida family has voiced their outrage aft prosecutors declined to record charges against an Orlando bull pursuing a clang that killed a 92-year-old woman. ​

Milagros “Millie” Ortiz died connected January 19, 2026, a time aft nan conveyance successful which she was being driven location was struck by nan serviceman astatine an intersection.

According to nan Orlando Police Department’s preliminary clang report, which was obtained by People, nan clang unfolded arsenic Ortiz returned pinch a neighbour from a bingo night. That aforesaid study stated that nan constabulary conveyance “was astatine responsibility for nan collision owed to nonaccomplishment to output correct of way.”

In a June 5 news merchandise obtained by Fox 35, nan State Attorney's Office for nan Ninth Judicial Circuit confirmed that it was not going to record charges against nan officer. No charges were ever recommended, according to nan release.​

In a connection fixed to WESH 2, State Attorney Monique Worrell’s agency said nan lawsuit was not referred to nan agency for prosecution and nan section proactively requested nan investigation.

“What we dream nan Ortiz family and this organization cognize - supra each other - is that Ms. Milagros Ortiz was seen. Her life mattered,” nan connection read. “And this reappraisal was conducted successful a mode worthy of her.”

A lawsuit deposition memo seen by nan outlet revealed that nan officer’s lawyer said that his customer had been “attempting to behaviour a postulation extremity connected a conveyance that had made an forbidden U-turn” astatine nan intersection.

The State Attorney's Office for nan Ninth Judicial Circuit told Fox 35 that an investigation wished that nan officer drove astatine little than 20 mph into nan intersection and did not thrust recklessly. The merchandise besides suggested that his emergency lights whitethorn person suffered a “mechanical nonaccomplishment mid-intersection.”​

The State Attorney's Office said it would not beryllium capable to beryllium beyond a reasonable uncertainty that nan serviceman drove recklessly aliases pinch a willful aliases wanton disregard.

The Orlando Police Department confirmed to Fox 35 that it supports nan State Attorney’s decision, but that its ain soul investigation was still underway.

​However, Ortiz’s family told nan outlet that they disagree pinch nan State Attorney’s Office’s determination and that they person hired an lawyer to research different ineligible avenues.​

Evelyn Alicea, Ortiz’s daughter, said that she believes nan clang could person been avoided. She besides questioned why nan officer’s vehicle, which had a documented history of issues, was allowed connected nan roads.

“Why was that car connected nan road?” asked Alicea. “You ne'er would expect thing for illustration this to travel from a constabulary officer.”​

Alicea said that location were aggregate witnesses to nan clang and that their reports do not lucifer nan State Attorney’s Office’s statement.​

“My family will not extremity fighting for nan truth and nan justness that my mother deserves,” Alicea said.​

Speaking to People, Alicea said that it was not different for her mother to travel location late.

On nan nighttime of nan crash, she says that she had been tracking her mom’s location erstwhile she received a telephone from a stranger. ​As nan alien told her astir what had unfolded, she could perceive Ortiz complaining of thorax pains.​

“When I sewage that telephone and to find retired it was a constabulary serviceman that really ran a reddish light, had nary lights and sirens, that's what's really struck nan hardest," Alicea says. “That's why this has been truthful hard. They're expected to service and protect nan community.”​

The family told People that some Alicea and her sister, Judy Santiago, raced to nan hospital, wherever they said pinch their mom earlier she underwent surgery. Ortiz had suffered injuries to her ribs, torso and liver and had fractured aggregate vertebrae.

The Independent has contacted nan Orlando Police Department for comment.