ORLANDO, Fla. — A recently obtained police bulletin indicates that the Orlando Police Department and Orange County Sheriff's Office agencies were aware of a Facebook Live video that appears to show a man who’s now accused of killing two police officers saying that he wanted to "shoot me a cop."
An Orlando police officer discovered the video on social media and reported it to the police department. The agency quickly alerted its officers to the threat on July 14, more than a month before investigators said Everett Miller killed Kissimmee police Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard.
Miller made the Facebook Live while an officer appeared to be behind him while driving.
The bulletin warned officers to approach Miller with care because of the statements he allegedly made in the video.
"If this cop comes out with his gun, I'm going to shoot me a cop." Miller appears to say in the video. "No cop is going get Glen Miller today."
The bulletin said Miller was a retired Marine and had access to different firearms.
The document was written after Miller was involuntarily committed in July for a psychological evaluation under the Baker Act. In that incident, Osceola County deputies said Miller was wearing nothing more than underwear when he brandished an assault rifle.
Orlando police sent the bulletin to the Orange County Sheriff's Office so deputies could investigate the video because Miller lived in unincorporated Orange County.
A Sheriff's Office spokesperson said the agency investigated the OPD tip, but OCSO didn't disclose its investigative steps.
"The OSCO received the bulletin via our Intelligence Unit, conducted follow-up and made appropriate entries based on the level of information in the bulletin and the results of the investigative follow-up," the spokesperson said in a statement.
Typically, police threats are sent to the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange so the information may be disseminated to all law enforcement agencies in a nine-county region.
The next email about the bulletin or Miller wasn't until Aug. 19, the day after the two officers were killed.
It's unknown why the information wasn't immediately sent to CFIX.
It unknown whether the tip could have prevented the officers' deaths, but it might lead to a change in the way threats are handled in the future.
The Kissimmee Police Department and the Osceola County Sheriff's Office weren't notified about the OPD bulletin, but said they had their own bulletin after Miller was involuntarily committed for a psychological evaluation under the Baker Act.
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