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UNDERSTAND THAT OFFICER TURNED HIMSELF IN. MICHELLE: HE DID. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL AND BONDED OUT. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, OFFICER ANTHONY WONGSHUE WAS ARRESTED ON A SINGLE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. NOT MUCH BEYOND THAT IS KNOWN. THE NARRATIVE THAT USUALLY HAS DETAILS ABOUT AN ARREST IS BLANK. THE DEADLY SHOOTING HAPPENED IN MAY OF LAST YEAR. OFFICER WONGSHUE WAS ONE OF TWO ORLANDO POLICE OFFICERS WHO RESPONDED TO A SHOPLIFTING CALL AT COLONIAL PLAZA. THE ACCUSED SHOPLIFTERS, TWO WOMEN, HOPPED INTO THIS GOLD VAN. AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING, POLICE SAID THE DRIVER, EVEN WHEN ORDERED MULTIPLE TIMES BY THE OFFICERS, REFUSED TO TAKE HIS HANDS OFF THE GEAR SHIFT. HERE’S WHAT A STORE EMPLOYEE SAID HAPPENED NEXT. >> AND HE QUICKLY TOOK HIS HAND, AND PUT THE CAR IN GEAR, TURNED THE CAR TOWARDS THE OFFICER, AND HIT THE GAS AS HARD AS HE POSSIBLY COULD. HE SPED OUT PRETTY QUICK. THE OFFICER THEN FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS INTO THE DRIVER SIDE WINDOW. MICHELLE: THE DRIVER OF THE VAN, 32-YEAR-OLD JUAN SILVA, WAS ABLE TO DRIVE AWAY FROM THE SCENE, BUT WAS LATER FOUND DEAD IN VAN. THE WOMEN WITH HIM WERE TWO EVENTUALLY CAUGHT. THIS IS BODY CAM RELEASED BY THE STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE LAST YEAR AS PART OF THE INVESTIGATION, THE INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE ORLANDO POLICE OFFICERS SHOULD BE CHARGED. A GRAND JURY MADE THEIR DECISION ABOUT OFFICER ANTHONY WONGSHUE. NOW THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE ISSUED A STATEMENT WHICH SAID IN PART, THEY FOUND THE INDICTMENT TO BE DISTURBING, AND THEY ASK PEOPLE TO GIVE THE OFFICER THE SAME THE SAME COURTESIES, RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS HE HAS GIVEN TO THE COMMUNITY TO WHOM HE HAS SWORN TO PROTECT FOR 16 PLUS YEARS. NO CHARGES WERE FILED AGAINST THE SECO

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