Clifford Owen Long, 37, was indicted by a Brevard County grand jury for the 2025 shooting death of 2-year-old Bles’syn Lightner and the attempted murders of her grandparents in South Melbourne.

The vice mayor of Coral Springs was killed in what police described as a “domestic violence incident,” according to the department.

Some neighbors are sickened to hear human remains were found in suitcases in an abandoned area where dead bodies have been found before.

Days after a man was found dead at an apartment complex, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced that an arrest has finally been made.

News 6 has obtained newly released body-camera footage showing what exactly happened after a guest was killed on Epic Universe’s Stardust Racers rollercoaster last year.

Port Orange police scoured a property on Thursday in search of evidence related to a case from over 10 years ago, the department confirmed to News 6.

We have a new look at the gunfire that came from a house as police took cover in the middle of a deadly standoff. Three hours later Monday, after officers returned fire, police said the barricaded woman inside the house alone was dead.

A man has been taken into custody after an alleged tire theft left a Mascotte woman dead last week, according to city officials.

A crash in Ormond Beach on Thursday afternoon left a 25-year-old dead, according to the police department.

A man was arrested after a fatal stabbing at a home near Daytona Beach on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

Ocala Police have closed SW 3rd Street from S Pine Ave. to SW 7th Ave for a death investigation.

After a small child was killed by a hit-and-run driver this week, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced that the suspect has finally been caught.

Anne Mae Demegillo, 20, is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and is being held without bond, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

A Jacksonville man was arrested this week, well over a year after his 5-week-old daughter was brought to the hospital with fatal injuries, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

A Central Florida grandmother is demanding justice after deputies say a teenager intentionally ran over and killed her 17-year-old grandson in Orlando last November.

A 17-year-old boy has been accused of first-degree murder after another teen was killed back in November, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Flagler County deputies said a friend who received messages that the woman had secretly given birth called for a welfare check.

A Marion County mother was put behind bars this week after her 3-year-old daughter was beaten to death last month, according to the sheriff’s office.

A man died after being found riddled with gunshot wounds at a Leesburg apartment complex early Wednesday morning, according to the police department.

Investigators said that a good Samaritan recovered the man from the water, though he still ultimately died from his injuries.

A man was killed by a steamroller in Lake County on Monday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Police are investigating after a man and woman were found dead in the backyard of a Belleview home on Friday, according to the department.

A 74-year-old man died after someone ran over him over along the course of a half-marathon.

A man was fatally struck while walking into the road on Monday evening, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner on a Carnival Cruise ship last fall has sparked a new child custody fight involving the Titusville teen’s stepsiblings, newly filed court records show.

County Road 304 in Flagler County was temporarily shut down on Saturday evening while officials conducted a death investigation involving a freight train, according to a news release.

A pedestrian was struck and killed during a crash involving a 79-year-old driver over the weekend, according to the Ormond Beach Police Department.

A 2‑year‑old died Saturday night after Sanford police found the toddler unresponsive in a retention pond near the Windchase Apartments, according to police.

A husband and wife from Orlando were reportedly killed in a plane crash out of East Texas on Wednesday night.

Police in Palm Bay are awaiting confirmation from the medical examiner after human remains were discovered in a wooded area, a development investigators say could be connected to a missing person who has not been seen alive for about a year.

Police said that the missing person case led them to two places, though it's unclear at this time how it all ties together.

For the first time through the lens of police body cameras, we’re seeing the teenager accused of killing her mother and her mother’s young boyfriend.

A “significant development” has popped up in a decades-old Central Florida cold case.

A man who shot and killed his ex-wife and her 4-year-old daughter in Ocala was tracked by law enforcement to Georgia, where he then took his own life in a traffic stop, according to police Chief Mike Balken.

Troopers said the driver was unable to see the young boy playing in the driveway as she was backing out.

A family member is searching for answers after her father and aunt were found dead in an Apopka general store.

Over two months after the body of 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found stuffed under a bed on a Carnival cruise ship, her stepbrother has reportedly found himself in court.

An elderly woman's body was found in a field on Thursday afternoon, leading investigators to determine what caused her death, according to the Winter Haven Police Department.

Investigators are looking into the circumstances behind a 3-month-old infant's death, according to the Cocoa Police Department.

It has been two weeks since mental health counselor Rebecca White was stabbed to death at her Orlando office. The attack has left therapists across Central Florida shaken, raising concerns about safety and sparking deeper conversations about who supports mental health professionals during times of crisis.

Nearly three months after a Titusville teen was found dead on a cruise ship, records obtained by News 6 indicate the case remains under investigation.

Two women who owned dogs that Volusia deputies say killed an 8-year-old boy in DeLand had a hearing today as they prepare for trial.

A 92-year-old woman was killed after a crash with an Orlando police cruiser earlier this month, according to local attorney Ben Crump.

More people who knew Rebecca White, the licensed mental health counselor who was stabbed to death inside her Orange County office, are speaking out about her compassion and dedication to helping others.

The family of a mental-health counselor who was stabbed to death in Orange County is questioning whether there was proper security in the building where the stabbing took place.

A group counseling patient was stabbed 10 times while trying to save his counselor during a fatal attack at an Orlando office building Monday night.

After a Leesburg man was arrested in 2021 for fatally attacking his coworker with a metal bat, he now faces life behind bars for his crimes, according to court records obtained by News 6.

Florida has plenty of alligators, though state officials have revealed just how many times they've attack people in the state.

Police say 64-year-old Harold Harper was gardening in the front yard of his home on Wednesday afternoon when he was shot and killed.

Months after an alligator mauled a woman to death at Lake Kissimmee State Park, investigators have released a report detailing what exactly happened.

Traffic has been blocked in Ocala after a homicide investigation broke out on Wednesday, according to the police department.

A dead body was reported at a Walt Disney World property on Friday night, just one day after New Year’s, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

A crash in Cocoa left a woman dead and a driver hospitalized early Friday afternoon, according to the police department.

Drivers have been asked to avoid an area of Clermont after a body was discovered on New Year's Day, according to the police department.

For several families in Orange County, the Christmas holiday was marked not by celebration, but by devastating loss.

A 17-year-old was fatally shot during what might have been an attempted robbery, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

A 13-year-old girl was fatally shot in Orange County on Thursday afternoon, leading to the arrest of a teen suspect, according to the sheriff’s office.

A crash along Interstate 95 on Thursday left a 52-year-old woman dead, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A woman was killed earlier this week in what appears to be an unprovoked attack at a Barnes & Noble store, according to police.

A 17-year-old was shot to death near a condominium complex in Orange County on Wednesday afternoon, according to the sheriff’s office.

A five-car crash in Clermont on Tuesday evening killed a Groveland woman and left three others injured, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Over 100 pages of texts and emails were released last week as part of an ongoing child custody dispute linked to the mysterious death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival Cruise ship.

A 32-year-old motorcyclist was killed when a mini-bike pulled out in front of him in Deltona, and for the first time in Central Florida, authorities are considering criminal charges in such a case.

A new search for any trace of a young mother missing since two days before Christmas two years ago.

Police say a woman was found dead inside a freezer at a Dollar Tree store in Miami.

Family and friends of 21-year-old Taj Palmer say they are outraged and heartbroken. His mother says she wants answers and to know who is responsible for her son’s death.

Investigators announced that the death investigation is closed, with a newly released report detailing what exactly happened on the ride.

Universal Orlando removed a reference to “pre-existing conditions” in a report about a roller coaster rider’s death after a Florida government agency intervened, a News 6 investigation has uncovered.

A bill bringing a special day of observation for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk just passed its first hurdle in the Florida Legislature on Tuesday.

An 86-year-old Indialantic man struck and killed an elderly pedestrian while driving along State Road A1A on Thursday evening, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The city of Orlando is seeking to foreclose on a home where prosecutors said David Tronnes strangled and beat his wife to death in 2018 while arguing about a major home renovation project, court records obtained by News 6 show.

Meredith Rose Walker was last seen on May 30 near Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando. Her remains were later found in Virginia.

Police are searching for answers after they said a man was fatally shot during a reported break-in over the weekend.

Hundreds of people filled the Grove Church on Thursday evening to honor the life of 18-year-old Brevard County resident Anna Kepner, whose death aboard a cruise ship earlier this month remains under federal investigation.

It might sound crazy, but this tree is reportedly linked to one of Florida's most demented serial killers.

Police said they were tipped off to the shooting near Bristol Drive on Sunday night, with surveillance footage showing a "slim male" near the scene.

The teenage stepbrother of Anna Kepner "is a suspect” in the 18-year-old’s death on a cruise ship, according to new court documents.

Over a week after an 18-year-old Titusville student was found dead aboard a Carnival cruise ship, new court documents show that one of her step-siblings may be investigated.

After a missing English woman failed to fly back home last month, investigators said they've caught the prime suspect.

Three days after the execution of a search warrant at a tattoo shop resulted in an officer-involved shooting, video obtained by News 6 shows the moment Orlando police officers started shooting when a man opened the back door of the shop.

A week after a teenager died on a cruise, authorities still aren’t saying how Anna Kepner died.

Standing beside flowers and candles at a memorial on Hiawassee Meadow Drive, where the 20-year-old motorcyclist lost his life, neighbors say they’re devastated and are urging drivers to slow down and pay attention so tragedies like this don’t happen again.

Authorities in Miami are investigating the death of a passenger traveling on a Carnival cruise ship that returned to the city Saturday.

One person died after an Orange County home caught fire on Friday, according to the Winter Garden Fire Department.

After an 8-year-old boy was killed by dogs in a DeLand neighborhood earlier this year, his family is now taking the local homeowners’ association to court.

A person who shot and killed a driver in Marion County has been released from police custody.

After a man and a woman were found dead over the weekend at a DeLand home, police have now declared the incident was a murder-suicide.

Police say a man and woman were found dead inside a home in DeLand.

After a Kentucky man who fatally stabbed a 6-year-old was released from prison early and moved to Central Florida, the state’s attorney general is now pushing for changes to the state’s “insanity defense.”

An elderly man on an electric bicycle was killed during a crash on Thursday night in Brevard County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A University of North Florida professor, who was terminated for telling students he would “shoot them,” says his words were misinterpreted and that he wants his job back.

A head-on crash in Sumter County on Thursday morning left one man dead, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

According to investigators, the case stems all the way back to February 1971, when a woman’s body was discovered by a couple of hitchhikers under the Lake Panasoffkee Bridge.

According to investigators, the case stems all the way back to February 1971, when a woman’s body was discovered by a couple of hitchhikers under the Lake Panasoffkee Bridge.

A body was found inside a car that was on fire in St. Cloud, according to police.

A man wanted in a murder case out of Riviera Beach earlier this year was finally caught in Sanford, according to law enforcement.

Nearly 20 years after a brutal sex attack on a 65-year-old woman in Tavares, detectives have announced they may have finally found the culprit.

A crash along State Road 417 on Monday evening left one dead and two others critically injured, according to the Orlando Fire Department.

A dead body was reported near Disney World on Tuesday evening, according to data from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

A woman was found dead at a home in Daytona Beach last week, and four dogs may be to blame, according to the police department.