On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, 27-year-old Frank Ordonez was delivering packages from his UPS truck on a route in Coral Gables. The time stamp on a ring camera says it’s 4:54 p.m. Thirty minutes before that ring-cam snapshot, two armed men disguised as postal workers ring the bell of a jewelry store and get buzzed in.
This is the story of the UPS driver who became a hostage and ended up dead in the midst of a police shootout.
Season 7 of The Florida Files: UPS Driver Taken Hostage: A Police Shootout Gone Wrong
It’s also about the 70-year-old union rep who was in his 2009 Mercury Grand Marquis stopped at a light on his way home from work. He was caught in the crossfire and shot in the head. It’s about 20 officers, approximately 200 bullets and people in their cars when the police start shooting.
It’s a story with many twists and turns, but most especially it’s about so many people in the wrong place at the wrong time and a shootout of monumental proportions that would take away loved ones and change the lives of those who remained forever.
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