Pictures: Police officers shot in Kissimmee
Kissimmee Police Sgt. Matt Koski scrubs blood off the road where two officers were shot Friday night. “I just don’t want to see this every time I drive by,” Koski said
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A picture of a smiling Officer Matthew Baxter sits among other items outside the Kissimmee Police Department were a growing memorial is building for Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel)
(Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)A woman places flowers down at the memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
A man holding a bouquet of flowers looks at the memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
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Fallen Officer Matthew Baxter’s car is parked outside the Kissimmee Police Department were there is a growing memorial for both Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel)
(Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)Fallen Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard’s cars are parked outside the Kissimmee Police Department were there is a growing memorial for both on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Fallen Officer Matthew Baxter’s car is parked outside the Kissimmee Police Department were there is a growing memorial for both Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Deanna Hobby prayers at a makeshift memorial while John Robson and Ron Kolin keep watch. The spot is where two Kissimmee police officers were shot Friday night. (Krista Torralva / Orlando Sentinel)
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Community members of have began making a makeshift memorial where Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard were allegedly shot late Friday night. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Ron Kolin, 64, and John Robson, 56, residents of the neighborhood where Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard were allegedly shot late Friday night, stand guard of the small but growing memorial on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Ron Kolin, 64, and John Robson, 56, residents of the neighborhood where Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard were allegedly shot late Friday night, stand guard of the small but growing memorial on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Members of the community look over the memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
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Flags at the Kissimmee Police Department fly at half staff over the memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
A woman places flowers down at the memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Fallen Officer Matthew Baxter’s car is parked outside the Kissimmee Police Department were there is a growing memorial for both Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
Fallen Officer Matthew Baxter’s car is parked outside the Kissimmee Police Department were there is a growing memorial for both Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
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People outside the Kissimmee Police Department pay their respects at growing memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
A crowd gathers outside the Kissimmee Police Department were a memorial for Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard is slowly getting larger on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
A picture of a smiling Officer Matthew Baxter sits among other items outside the Kissimmee Police Department were a growing memorial is building for Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
A wreath placed outside the Kissimmee Police Department for fallen Officer Matthew Baxter; it sits among other items where a growing memorial is building for Baxter and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard on Saturday August 19, 2017. According to officials, the Kissimmee officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m on Friday Night. Moments later dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. (Aileen Perilla/ Orlando Sentinel) (Aileen Perilla / Orlando Sentinel)
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Wanda Rentas, Vice Mayor of Kissimmee places an arrangement of flowers Saturday, August 19, 2017 at a makeshift memorial in front of the Kissimmee Police department. in Florida. A Marine veteran has been arrested in the shooting death on Friday of a Kissimmee Police officer, and there is “not much hope a second officer he’s accused of shooting will survive, Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell,left, said this morning during a press conference Saturday, August 19, 2017. On Friday Officer Matthew Baxter was killed and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard was shot and is in grave condition, O’Dell said. The uniformed officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m. Five minutes later, dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. O’Dell said it looked like they were surprised by the gunfire.(Red Huber/Staff Photographer) (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)
After placing flowers at a makeshift memorial Saturday, August 19, 2017 Miguel Velez, of Poinciana,Florida say’s a prayer for the officer that was killed and the other in grave condition. A Marine veteran has been arrested in the shooting death on Friday of a Kissimmee Police officer, and there is “not much hope a second officer he’s accused of shooting will survive, Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell,left, said this morning during a press conference Saturday, August 19, 2017. On Friday Officer Matthew Baxter was killed and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard was shot and is in grave condition, O’Dell said. The uniformed officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m. Five minutes later, dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. O’Dell said it looked like they were surprised by the gunfire.(Red Huber/Staff Photographer) (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)
Carmen Carrasquillo of Kissimmee pays her respects of the fallen officer at a makeshift memorial at the Kissimmee Police Department . “It breaks my heart, watched these officers in the community with children and family.”, said Carrasquillo Saturday, August 19, 2017. A Marine veteran has been arrested in the shooting death on Friday of a Kissimmee Police officer, and there is “not much hope a second officer he’s accused of shooting will survive, Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell,left, said this morning during a press conference Saturday, August 19, 2017. On Friday Officer Matthew Baxter was killed and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard was shot and is in grave condition, O’Dell said. The uniformed officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m. Five minutes later, dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. O’Dell said it looked like they were surprised by the gunfire.(Red Huber/Staff Photographer) (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)
Carmen Carrasquillo of Kissimmee pays her respects of the fallen officer at a makeshift memorial at the Kissimmee Police Department . “It breaks my heart, watched these officers in the community with children and family.”, said Carrasquillo Saturday, August 19, 2017. A Marine veteran has been arrested in the shooting death on Friday of a Kissimmee Police officer, and there is “not much hope a second officer he’s accused of shooting will survive, Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell,left, said this morning during a press conference Saturday, August 19, 2017. On Friday Officer Matthew Baxter was killed and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard was shot and is in grave condition, O’Dell said. The uniformed officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m. Five minutes later, dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. O’Dell said it looked like they were surprised by the gunfire.(Red Huber/Staff Photographer) (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)
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A Marine veteran has been arrested in the shooting death on Friday of a Kissimmee Police officer, and there is “not much hope a second officer he’s accused of shooting will survive, Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell,left,said this morning during a press conference Saturday, August 19, 2017. On Friday Officer Matthew Baxter was killed and Sgt. Richard Sam Howard was shot and is in grave condition, O’Dell said. The uniformed officers were investigating three suspicious people in the area of Palmway and Cypress streets about 9:30 p.m. Five minutes later, dispatchers received the first call reporting the officers had been shot. The officers did not have time to return fire. O’Dell said it looked like they were surprised by the gunfire.(Red Huber/Staff Photographer) (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)