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A man was arrested after allegedly hitting a victim over the head with a beer bottle before kicking him and causing him to bleed on Monday. Lee County deputies received a call for reports of a physical disturbance at the Gulf Gas Station on Palm Beach Boulevard in east Fort Myers. Upon arrival, deputies say they found the victim on the ground bleeding from his head. Detectives were able to identify the attacker as Jose Vargas, 34, who reportedly said

A father and grandmother are among three people who are facing charges after an 11-year-old girl who was somehow shot inside her Miami apartment died from her injuries. The shooting happened around noon on Tuesday inside an apartment at a building in the area of Northwest 2nd Avenue and Northwest 17th Street in Overtown. Officers said the girl, 11-year-old Taliyan Clarke, was hospitalized and later died from her injuries. On Wednesday, Miami Police announced they arrested three people on charges of aggravated

A Georgia man is dead and another man is injured after a crash on Interstate 75 in Alachua County late Tuesday night. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, the Georgia man was traveling northbound on I-75 near mile marker 405 just after 10 p.m. He drove his sedan into the median and hit a guardrail and went back onto the roadway. A pickup truck was also travelling northbound and hit the sedan. The driver of the sedan died, and the

Newly-released video shows the arrest of a quadriplegic Miami-Dade man in an unusual case: He’s accused of hitting an officer with his wheelchair. Bryant Amastha, 32, first told Local 10 News that the police got it all wrong. But the body camera video appears to tell a different story. It happened May 1. Police responded to a dispute between Amastha, also known on YouTube as recording artist El Valien-T, and his mother at their home in southwest Miami-Dade’s Quail Heights area. “I

At least one person was injured in a crash on the Florida’s Turnpike in Miami-Dade Wednesday morning. The crash happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the Turnpike just after the Golden Glades interchange and near Miami Gardens Drive. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded and could be seen evaluating one person who was standing and bleeding. It was not clear who that person was. There is no official word yet on how many cars were involved or how

Photo by: Polk County Sheriffs Office The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said a high-speed pursuit involving a stolen vehicle ended in a crash on State Road 60 near Bonnie Mine Road, east of Mulberry. Deputies said they spotted the dark gray Dodge Ram Pickup near Lake Wales around noon. The truck had been reported stolen earlier that morning from St. Petersburg during an armed carjacking. When the driver noticed the deputy behind him, the sheriff’s office said he sped away

A man has died after being found unresponsive in a Discovery Cove Orlando pool on Monday morning, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Douglas Reid, 51, was taken to Orlando Health Doctor Phillips for a possible drowning and was pronounced deceased at the hospital on Monday evening. The cause and manner of his death is pending an investigation by the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office. Deputies responded to the park just after 10 a.m. and were assisted by Orange

A Vero Beach man died after his pickup truck struck what highway officials said was a roll-off garbage truck Monday afternoon. The crash occurred on County Road 510, or 90th Avenue, just outside southwest Sebastian city limits at 2:20 p.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The 77-year-old driver of the white 2002 Ford Ranger died at the scene of the crash, which was the road just east of the entrance to Sebastian River High School. FHP did not identify him.

Photo by: nbc-2 A man was injured, and a dog died after a fire ignited in the south Fort Myers area. According to South Trail Fire and Rescue, a manufactured home became fully engulfed in flames in the Jamaica Bay community along Dron Court. Two people and the dog were inside the home when the fire started. Fire officials said the man was transported to the hospital. Crews found the dog deceased during fire operations. South Trail Fire and Rescue said

Cape Coral police are investigating a major crash that happened overnight on Diplomat Parkway near Del Prado Boulevard North. Two vehicles were involved, according to reports. A minivan was left with heavy front-end damage. Westbound lanes on Diplomat Parkway are reportedly closed while tow trucks cleared the road of debris. They have since reopened. It appeared to be a head-on crash. NBC2 is working to get more information and find out how everyone involved is doing. This is an active

A Boca Raton woman succumbed to the injuries she sustained nearly a week earlier in a crash that happened when the driver of the other vehicle allegedly ran a red light. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) crash report indicates the woman, Audrey Milk, was riding in an Acura MDX shortly after 5 p.m., last Tuesday. Investigators determined the SUV was heading south on Powerline Road when a BMW 320i coming the other way turned left in front of

Photo by: (MCSO) An image shared by Martin County Fire Rescue on Monday showed the results of a violent collision that left a truck stacked on top of another one. Now, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office has released a picture from another perspective, that of the firefighters and the risks they took to save the people trapped in the two badly damaged vehicles. “When I watched our fire personnel yesterday stabilizing a pickup truck that had crashed on top of another pickup