ORLANDO, Fla. _ About an hour after investigators say he shot two Kissimmee police officers, Everett Glenn Miller was sitting at a Kissimmee, Fla., bar.
Miller, 45, had been acting suspiciously and would not leave, a manager at Roscoe's Bar & Packaging told Osceola County deputy sheriffs. He matched the description of the man who had pulled the trigger, according to documents.
As six deputies and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper tried to remove him, Miller cursed at them and insisted he "didn't do anything," records show.
"I'm innocent," he yelled. "I didn't do it, I'm a veteran."
But later that night, when a detective adjusted his handcuffs in an interview room at Kissimmee police headquarters, Miller's demeanor had changed.
"Everett began to cry, said he did not want to live and pleaded with me to kill him," Detective Cpl. Charles Hess wrote in an arrest report. Hess told him that nobody at the station was going to kill him and asked why he would say that.
"I have done a bad thing," Miller said.
Miller is accused of shooting and killing Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard "Sam" Howard. The officers will have joint funeral services on Thursday.
Miller, who spent 21 years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps, has no previous criminal record in Florida but had recently been involuntarily hospitalized under the Baker Act, which is used for people having mental health crises and are deemed an imminent danger to themselves or others.
Court records released Monday provide more details about what lead up to the shooting and Miller's arrest, though unanswered questions remain.
At 9:28 p.m., Baxter told dispatch that he was talking to three men near Palmway and Cypress streets, records show. He soon asked for a supervisor's help. About 20 minutes later, Howard told dispatch he was on scene _ the final radio transmission from either of them.
At 9:52 p.m., neighbors called 911 saying they heard three gunshots and saw two officers lying in the street. More officers rushed to the scene and tried to resuscitate Baxter and Howard, records show. Baxter was pronounced dead that night, and Howard was taken off life support the following afternoon.
Miller is being held without bail in the Osceola County Jail.
Gov. Rick Scott on Saturday signed an executive order taking the case away from Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala, who in March said she would not seek the death penalty for anyone. Ocala-based State Attorney Brad King will now oversee the prosecution, along with 26 other cases from Orange and Osceola counties that Scott transferred to him.
