{"id":425299,"date":"2026-10-12T04:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425299\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T04:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:55:18","slug":"brevard-county-sheriffs-deputy-wrong-way-driver-killed-in-i-95-crash-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425299\/","title":{"rendered":"Brevard County sheriff\u2019s deputy, wrong-way driver killed in I-95 crash \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sheriff\u2019s deputy was killed in the line of duty after a wrong-way crash late Saturday on Interstate 95, according to the Brevard County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Kevin Morris, 55, was a homicide agent, hired as a deputy in February 2021 and served with the agency for five years. He previously was with the Palm Bay Police Department.<\/p>\n

Morris and an unidentified driver died after crashing head-on into each other as Morris was on duty heading toward a deputy-involved shooting incident in Mims, said Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis morning our agency, our community, the family of Kevin are absolutely devastated,\u201d Ivey said at a Sunday morning press conference<\/a>. \u201cKevin was probably one of the nicest people you\u2019ll ever meet in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report, the unidentified driver, driving a 2021 Nissan Sentra, was traveling southbound around 11:03 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-95 south of State Road 46.<\/p>\n

A witness reported that the Sentra made a U-turn on the interstate and began traveling the wrong way at approximately mile marker 223.<\/p>\n

Lt. Channing Taylor, Brevard County FHP station district commander, stressed the importance of wrong-way calls at the press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose calls are taken very seriously,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWe have our wrong-way detectors on the ramps, which FDOT and their vendors monitor. This is not a case where somebody went up the ramp the wrong way and got confused.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morris, driving a Brevard County Sheriff\u2019s Office patrol car, was traveling northbound on I-95 in the area of mile marker 221 in the inside lane when the Sentra came into his direct path. As a result, the Sentra collided with the front of the deputy\u2019s patrol car, causing both vehicles to become engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

Both the unidentified driver and Morris were pronounced deceased on scene.<\/p>\n

The report said the medical examiner\u2019s office will contact FHP once they have identified the Sentra driver and the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sheriff\u2019s deputy was killed in the line of duty after a wrong-way crash late Saturday on Interstate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[315,28,114,266,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-425299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-brevard-county","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425299","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=425299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}