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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Yahoo
Dispute before Osceola ambush killing involved girlfriend's son, police say
An Osceola County man ambushed five people — killing one teenager and injuring another — after they drove to the man's home to have an agreed-upon fistfight with his longtime girlfriend's son, court records show. Orvill Osorio-Ortiz, 42, was arrested May 13 on a charge of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted first-degree murder in the April 11 shooting ambush, which occurred near his residence in St. Cloud on Kellchris Lane. Osorio-Ortiz's girlfriend of 10 years, 48-year-old Jessica Rivera, was arrested May 15 on a charge of tampering with evidence in the case, records show. Police say Rivera, a school food service worker at the time, hid a phone potentially related to the case on the campus of a Winter Garden elementary school. Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez said at a May 14 news conference that the shootings stemmed from an argument among several young adults over a girl and involved insults exchanged over texts. Osorio-Ortiz's arrest warrant, which called the shooting a premeditated ambush, shows the argument centered around Rivera's 18-year-old son, Josiah Lombillo, who lived with his mother and Osorio-Ortiz, and 20-year-old Keniel Gonzalez. The warrant shows Lombillo and Gonzalez arranged to meet and settle their dispute with a fistfight. Lombillo later said he was no longer in the area. Gonzalez still drove to Osorio-Ortiz and Rivera's residence with four of his friends in a red Toyota Corolla. The car was shot at as they drove past the residence. The same car later showed up at UCF Lake Nona Hospital with injured passengers. One of Gonzalez's friends, a 19-year-old, was pronounced dead at the hospital. The sheriff's office identified the victim as Nekko Herrera, but the teenager's online obituary lists him as Neiko Herrera. Another 19-year-old friend was airlifted to a different hospital for emergency surgery and is now stable, Lopez said. Witnesses reported seeing armed individuals emerge from a fence opening at the residence and said that the suspects fired multiple rounds before going back into the home. A witness described one of the individuals, who wielded a handgun, as resembling Osorio-Ortiz, the warrant said. It is not clear if the sheriff's office is searching for other suspects. Cellphone records show Osorio-Ortiz, Rivera and Lombillo moved out of Osceola County after the shooting. The records also show that Osorio-Ortiz was in the area of the shooting at the time it occurred, according to the warrant. One of the people in the car who survived the shooting identified Osorio-Ortiz out of a photo lineup as the handgun-wielding individual who shot at their car from the side of the residence, the warrant said. A group of cartridge casings was found to the side of the home. Rivera was arrested May 15 at Whispering Oak Elementary School, where she worked, and was taken to the Orange County Jail, according to a Monday news release from the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. Orange County Public Schools confirmed she was a food service employee at the school and was arrested after hours. A spokesperson said she will not be returning to the school. Police served Rivera with a search warrant for cellphones on May 13, and she gave them a device they later determined was not her primary phone at the time of the shooting. On May 15, detectives listened to a jail phone call between Osorio-Ortiz and Rivera. Osorio-Ortiz contacted Rivera using a phone number records showed she had previously used, according to her arrest warrant. In that phone call, Rivera advised Osorio-Ortiz that she would get a new number and discard her old phone because it 'was gold to law enforcement,' the warrant shows. When police arrived on campus, Rivera turned around and went back into the school after she saw them. She then went into a bathroom, concealed a phone inside a desk there and when deputies found her, she told them she didn't have her phone with her, the warrant said.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Girlfriend of Osceola teen-killing suspect arrested for evidence tampering
The girlfriend of an Osceola man suspected in a teenager's killing is accused of tampering with evidence in the case. Jessica Rivera, 48, was arrested at Whispering Oak Elementary School in Winter Garden, where she worked, and was taken to the Orange County Jail, according to a Monday news release from the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office says Rivera is the girlfriend of Orvill Joan Osorio-Ortiz, 42, of St. Cloud, who was arrested May 13 in Pasco County on a charge of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Nekko Herrera. Osorio-Ortiz also faces four counts of attempted first-degree murder. The release said only that the sheriff's office had obtained a warrant for her arrest Thursday for tampering with evidence in a capital felony proceeding and that Rivera further tampered with evidence relating to Osorio-Ortiz's homicide case during her arrest. It did not mention what agency arrested her, the date of her arrest or how she tampered with evidence. The sheriff's office did not immediately provide further details when contacted. While the release does not mention her specific role at the school, a Facebook post made by the school in August shows Rivera winning 2024 Support Person of the Year. Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez said at a news conference Wednesday that Osorio-Ortiz ambushed and opened fire with a Glock-style gun on a car containing five young adults April 11 at a planned meeting spot at the mobile home park on Kellchris Lane in St. Cloud. An arrest warrant from a previous incident involving Osorio-Ortiz indicated he lives at the same location. Herrera was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, and another person in the car was airlifted to the hospital for emergency surgery and is now stable, according to Lopez. The young adults had been insulting each other over text messages in an argument over a girl. They eventually decided to meet in-person to settle the dispute. Osorio-Ortiz, who knew some of the young adults, decided to get involved. 'This incident all began with a group of young adults exchanging texts about an argument over a girl,' Lopez said. 'I can't make this stuff up. Arguing over a girl ends in murder.' A witness identified Osorio-Ortiz as the shooter, Lopez said. Deputies recovered multiple shell casings at the scene and discovered other independent evidence that placed Osorio-Ortiz at the location during the time of the shooting, he said, adding that some details cannot be shared because the investigation is still ongoing. At the conference, Lopez said he hoped his deputies would make more arrests in the case — just one day before Rivera's warrant was issued. 'This case is a heartbreaking example of senseless violence, because of that one stupid decision of Mr. Osorio-Ortiz, a 19-year-old is dead…a life that was cut short for no reason,' Lopez said. 'Let this case serve as a reminder of the tragic consequences that can result when anger meets access to a weapon.'
