16-year-old boy accused of shooting Sanford cop

16-year-old boy accused of shooting Sanford cop
A police detective said the suspect 'didn't care of the seriousness of the crime.'
By Walter Pacheco, Orlando Sentinel

7:49 a.m. EDT, June 8, 2010
A 16-year-old is at a juvenile detention center in Seminole County after officers arrested him this morning for allegedly shooting a Sanford police officer last week.

Officers arrested the suspect in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orange County at 1 a.m.

Investigators said tips led them to a home on Mercy Drive, where he had been staying with his two sisters.

Detectives said more than a dozen U.S. Marshals, Orlando police and Orange County deputies surrounded the home before arresting the suspect.

The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying the suspect because he is a minor.

He faces charges of attempted murder of a law-enforcement officer in the shooting of Sanford Officer Brandon Worrall. He is being held without bond at the Seminole Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Sanford.

"It's a little disheartening, you know," Sanford police Chief Brian Tooley said at a news conference this morning. "You got 16-year-old kids out there shooting a police officer."
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16 year-old boy accused of shooting Sanford cop