A South Florida judge has cleared a police officer of wrongdoing in the 2019 shooting death of a UPS driver taken hostage during a robbery.

A Florida police union leader blasted prosecutors for bringing a criminal case against four officers over a 2019 shootout with two robbers that left a UPS driver and a passerby dead.

Frank Ordonez liked to fish and to play basketball and video games, his brother said. When the hijacking unfolded, Ordonez was covering the route for a driver who had called out, his brother said. The suspects stole the UPS truck Ordonez was driving, took him hostage and sped away, Coral Gables police said. The chase came to a tragic end when the UPS truck met stopped traffic at an intersection. Whether the UPS driver or the slain bystander was hit by police fire is part of the investigation, the FBI’s Piro said.