By Arelis R. Hernández, Orlando Sentinel
2:20 p.m. EDT, June 17, 2013
Citing his "grave concern" about an increase in officer-involved shootings, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Jeff Ashton has asked a grand jury to review the shooting death of a 19-year-old man killed by Orlando Police narcotics officers earlier this year.
Karvas Jabbar Gamble Jr. was shot in the stomach after drug-enforcement officers said they saw him reach for a gun inside a home on Arlington Street where they were conducting an investigation in January. Cordaryl Wilson, 25, also suffered a gunshot wound.
After the Florida Department of Law Enforcement concluded the Gamble shooting investigation but Ashton said in a letter to Chief Paul Rooney that more interviews were needed and he will "personally" review all deadly force cases resulting in a death within the circuit.
"The recent increase in deadly force encounters occurring within the Central Florida area is of grave concern to this office as well as the community we jointly serve," Ashton said in the letter.