Former Punta Gorda Police Officer Lee Coel was sentenced to 10 years probation and to pay restitution after a plea deal was reached to avoid trial and jail time. Coel shot and killed retired librarian ...

Mary Knowlton was 73 years old when she was shot to death by a police officer demonstrating to civilians the perils of his job. The officer, Lee Coel, was playing the “bad guy,” and Knowlton was ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WSVN) — A southwest Florida police chief and officer have both been charged in the death of an elderly woman, who was shot and killed during a police gun safety demonstration back ...

A former Florida police officer who accidentally shot and killed a 73-year-old woman during a demonstration will not serve any jail time as part of a plea agreement. Lee Coel, 31, was working as an ...

Mary Knowlton arrived at the Punta Gorda, Fla., police station Tuesday night to learn how to be a community steward. The 73-year-old was there as a student in the citizen academy, a free, eight-week ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - A Punta Gorda, Florida police officer accidentally shot and killed a retired librarian from Minnesota during a Citizens Academy on Tuesday evening. To stream KARE 11 on your phone, ...

In a few days, a brand-new library will be open to serve an entire community, and it will also have a room that serves as a living legacy for a librarian whose life was taken from her too soon. We ...

A former police officer in Florida who accidentally killed a 73-year-old retired librarian during a training exercise will not spend any time behind bars, leaving the victim’s family “devastated and ...

PUNTA GORDA (FOX 13) - Jurors in Punta Gorda have decided a police chief was not criminally negligent in the shooting death of a retired librarian last August. They acquitted Chief Tom Lewis on ...