Video shows fatal OIS of fleeing Fla. driver at traffic stop
By: David Ovalle & Charles Rabin, Miami Herald
MIAMI — The death of his sister makes no sense to Alfonso Wright. All he knows about it is from a cellphone video he’s seen. And the video shows a Florida Highway Patrol officer firing into his sister’s white BMW from the passenger side as the car moves slowly on a roadway near the entrance to the Golden Glades Park & Ride.
The officer, identified by FHP as Ronald Melendez-Bonilla, appears to fire twice. In the video, a muzzle flashes once before he stumbles as he’s walking backwards and Latasha Walton is refusing to stop the car. And it appears to flash again just before the trooper falls to the ground after tripping over a median and a dip in the roadway.
The bullets were fatal blows and ended the life of Walton, 32, a mother of two. Beside her in the car when she was killed Tuesday night was her boyfriend of three years, Wright said. He said he spoke with his sister’s boyfriend earlier Wednesday and that he’s traumatized.
