{"id":390987,"date":"2026-09-05T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390987\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:08:10","slug":"investigation-reveals-orlando-police-disciplined-officer-involved-in-crash-that-killed-92-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390987\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation reveals Orlando police disciplined officer involved in crash that killed 92-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigation reveals Orlando police disciplined officer involved in crash that killed 92-year-old<\/p>\n

\"Justin<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

WESH 2 Investigates has learned Orlando police disciplined the officer involved in a crash that killed a 92-year-old great-grandmother back in January. <\/p>\n

Traffic-camera video first seen on WESH 2 News shows Officer Andrew McKuhen’s marked SUV slamming into the Jeep carrying Milagros Ortiz home from her weekly bingo game. The video showed the vehicle’s emergency equipment wasn’t working properly. <\/p>\n

The internal affairs investigation found McKuhen violated the department’s safe driving of police vehicles policy. The department decided to suspend him for 80 hours, but records obtained by WESH 2 Investigates show he opted to give up 80 hours of personal leave. <\/p>\n

McKuhen told the investigator that he was attempting to stop a vehicle that made an illegal U-turn. <\/p>\n

The discipline memo states, “McKuhen created a risk to public safety while attempting to investigate a minor traffic violation.” <\/p>\n

The investigator also considered Ortiz’s death and the impact on the reputation of the Orlando Police Department as aggravating factors. <\/p>\n

The State Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute McKuhen. <\/p>\n

Attorney Ben Crump has filed a $92 million wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of the Ortiz family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigation reveals Orlando police disciplined officer involved in crash that killed 92-year-old ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 WESH 2 Investigates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63518,1776,11853,2339,12115,667,7441,125364,62316,1224,140176,139,141,140,1120,156314,732,918],"class_list":["post-390987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-92-year-old","tag-crash","tag-department","tag-hour","tag-investigates","tag-investigation","tag-investigator","tag-mckuhen","tag-milagros-ortiz","tag-officer","tag-officer-andrew-mckuhen","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police","tag-traffic-camera-video","tag-vehicle","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390987","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=390987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}