\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe family of 92-year-old Milagros Ortiz, who was killed in a crash involving an Orlando police cruiser, is speaking out about the incident during a news conference with their attorney, Ben Crump, to address questions surrounding responsibility for her death. Crump is holding a news conference at noon in Orlando on Thursday. >> Watch the full news conference in the video player above.Surveillance video obtained by WESH 2 Investigates shows the crash, which occurred in the early morning hours of January 18. Officer Andrew McKuhen had been stopped at a red light at Hoffner Avenue and Semoran Boulevard. The video shows the marked police SUV\u2019s lights turning on but then going dark moments before the collision. The state attorney\u2019s office decided not to charge McKuhen with vehicular homicide. A prosecutor\u2019s memo revealed that the police vehicle had a documented history of issues with its lights and sirens. An attorney for McKuhen told investigators that the officer was attempting to stop a vehicle that had made an illegal U-turn. Orlando police stated that an internal affairs investigation into the incident is still pending. Ortiz\u2019s daughter, Judy Santiago, shared the family\u2019s pain and called for accountability. \u201cThey are here to protect and serve us, not saying that he did it maliciously, but still, there has to be accountability,\u201d Santiago said. \u201cThe Ortiz family is broken. Our hearts are broken. They have not been able to mend yet,\u201d she added.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The family of 92-year-old Milagros Ortiz, who was killed in a crash involving an Orlando police cruiser, is speaking out about the incident during a news conference with their attorney, Ben Crump, to address questions surrounding responsibility for her death. <\/p>\n
Crump is holding a news conference at noon in Orlando on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Surveillance video obtained by WESH 2 Investigates shows the crash, which occurred in the early morning hours of January 18. <\/p>\n
Officer Andrew McKuhen had been stopped at a red light at Hoffner Avenue and Semoran Boulevard. <\/p>\n
The video shows the marked police SUV\u2019s lights turning on but then going dark moments before the collision. <\/p>\n
The state attorney\u2019s office decided not to charge McKuhen with vehicular homicide. <\/p>\n
A prosecutor\u2019s memo revealed that the police vehicle had a documented history of issues with its lights and sirens. <\/p>\n
An attorney for McKuhen told investigators that the officer was attempting to stop a vehicle that had made an illegal U-turn. <\/p>\n
Orlando police stated that an internal affairs investigation into the incident is still pending. <\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s daughter, Judy Santiago, shared the family\u2019s pain and called for accountability. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are here to protect and serve us, not saying that he did it maliciously, but still, there has to be accountability,\u201d Santiago said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ortiz family is broken. Our hearts are broken. They have not been able to mend yet,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of 92-year-old Milagros Ortiz, who was killed in a crash involving an Orlando police cruiser, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6275,2335,1089,2337,658,137909,125364,62316,14399,139,141,140,62317,125797,11878,51673,727,6809],"class_list":["post-334648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-attorney","tag-ben-crump","tag-family","tag-fatal-crash","tag-incident","tag-judy-santiago","tag-mckuhen","tag-milagros-ortiz","tag-news-conference","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-cruiser","tag-police-vehicle","tag-prosecutor","tag-red-light","tag-siren","tag-surveillance-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}