ORLANDO, Fla. — The attorney for Miya Marcano’s family on Friday continued to criticize the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for its investigation into the 19-year-old’s disappearance and death, calling the sheriff’s defense of the agency’s work “totally insulting.”
“It was shameful to say that no matter what they did or didn’t do, that Miya was dead anyway,” Daryl K. Washington said in a statement Friday. “... This in no way excuses the deputies from doing a job they are paid to do.”
Marcano, a Valencia College student who lived and worked at the Arden Villas apartments near UCF, was reported missing Sept. 24, beginning an eight-day search until she was found dead Saturday. Officials have said that 27-year-old Armando Caballero, who worked maintenance for the Arden Villas complex, is responsible for her killing. Caballero was found dead by suicide days before Marcano’s body was discovered.
