A chilling video
released Friday of a man accused of killing two Kissimmee Police officers in August shows part of his interaction with one of the victims before the deadly shootings.
A chilling video released Friday of a man accused of killing two Kissimmee Police officers in August shows part of his interaction with one of the victims before the deadly shootings.
Everett Glenn Miller, 46, is accused of shooting Kissimmee Police Sgt. Richard “Sam” Howard and Officer Matthew Baxter in the head the night of Aug. 18. He was arrested shortly afterward at Roscoe’s Bar in Kissimmee.
In a video detectives recovered from his cellphone, Miller is seen chiding Baxter during a confrontation. Baxter was on patrol when he approached three people at the corner of Palmway and Cypress streets and Miller got involved.
“Call your sergeant, please, sir,” Miller told Baxter in the clip. “Hey, call everybody up here. We ‘bout to put this on Facebook Live.”
Baxter stood with his hands crossed in front of his body several feet from Miller, who leaned against a car.
“Please come here,” Baxter said in the video.
“I’m not coming to you. You come to me,” Miller quipped back.
Baxter later called for his sergeant — Howard — and the two were shot in the head, according to detectives. Baxter died that night, and Howard died in the hospital the next day.
Attorneys also released other contents of his cellphone, including pictures, audio and text messages. In one text message from about 11 p.m. the night of the shooting, a woman asked Miller, “Why are you in the police car?”
Other evidence released Friday includes photos of the bloodsoaked pavement from the shooting scene; videos of Miller shooting handguns and a semi-automatic rifle at an indoor gun range and aiming for the heads of his dummies; and jail calls between Miller and his family.
In one of the jail calls from Aug. 27, Miller’s sister complains about alleged misinformation. Miller responds by saying, “The cops were [expletive] wrong.”
He said “the cops in the Kissimmee Police Department kicked my [expletive]” when he was arrested, but that he was being “treated well” in the jail.
Miller also asked his sister to have his mother set up a GoFundMe account to get a lawyer.
“I’m talking to this guy from New York ‘cause I’m not — I’m innocent,” Miller said.
Miller currently has a court-appointed attorney.
Miller, a veteran who spent 21 years in the Marine Corps, had no criminal record in Florida before his arrest.
Records show that he was involuntarily hospitalized under the state’s Baker Act in July after stripping down to his boxers and walking down an Osceola County street carrying a high-powered rifle. However, a judge recently ruled Miller is competent to stand trial.
Miller is being held in the Osceola County Jail. His next court hearing is scheduled for December. He will face the death penalty if he is convicted of first-degree murder.