Kissimmee Police officers responded to North Brack Street around 3:31 p.m. Tuesday and found an unresponsive person, launching what the department is now calling a suspicious death investigation. No arrests have been made, and investigators have not released the identity of the person found, the cause of death, or whether a weapon was involved.
According to WFTV Channel 9, detectives are still actively working the case, and while the Kissimmee Police Department has indicated the incident appears isolated, authorities have not said whether anyone has been identified as a suspect or taken into custody. The station reports there is no indication of an ongoing threat to the public. Channel 9 says it plans to provide updates as more information becomes available.
Under Florida law, the district medical examiner — not local police — is legally required to determine the official cause and manner of death in cases like this. Florida Statute § 406.11 mandates that district medical examiners investigate and, where necessary, perform autopsies in all unattended deaths or those occurring under suspicious or unusual circumstances, regardless of next-of-kin consent, according to the Florida Senate. That means any conclusions about how the person died will come later, through the medical examiner's office, not from police on scene.
A Street With a Complicated Recent Past
North Brack Street sits in Kissimmee's 34744 ZIP code, within the Robert Bass Addition subdivision near East Columbia Avenue and Orange Blossom Trail, an area of single-family homes largely built between 1940 and the 1980s, per Realtor.com. It is a quiet residential corridor, but not an unfamiliar one to Kissimmee Police or to city residents who have watched it become the backdrop for some of the department's most consequential recent controversies.
In April 2023, Brack Street was the site of an excessive-force incident in which then-Officer Andrew Baseggio unlawfully entered a home without a warrant and struck resident Sean Kastner. Baseggio was indicted in August 2024 and sentenced in October 2025 to nine months in the Osceola County Jail, according to the Osceola News-Gazette. That case triggered a joint investigation by the State Attorney's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into the department, which uncovered what investigators described as a culture of silence within the agency. The fallout included the resignation of former Police Chief Betty Holland and the October 2025 termination of Deputy Chief Wilson Munoz, the outlet reported.
New Leadership, New Oversight
The department has since undergone a leadership overhaul. Charles “Chuck” Broadway was appointed Kissimmee's 35th police chief on April 1, 2025, bringing 29 years of law enforcement experience from stints with the NYPD, FDLE, and Clermont Police, according to the City of Kissimmee. By July 2025, marking his first 100 days in office, Broadway had established a Civilian Police Oversight Board and revised internal affairs review protocols aimed at rebuilding community trust, according to WKMG.
Brack Street also carries older history tied to public safety. Nearby, around Palmway and Cypress streets, Kissimmee Police Officers Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard were fatally shot in August 2017, prompting the city to install new streetlighting at Brack Street and Columbia Avenue as part of a broader neighborhood safety push, WKMG reported at the time.
Third Unexplained Death Case Since June
Tuesday's investigation is the third suspicious death case Kissimmee Police have handled since early summer. In June, Hoodline covered a mysterious death inside a home near Heather Way and Denn John Way. In July, officers investigated a body found behind a retail center, a case Hoodline also reported on at the time. Neither of those earlier cases has been publicly resolved with a confirmed cause of death in the available reporting.
Broader crime data offers some context, though it cannot explain any individual case. Osceola County recorded a violent crime rate of 426 offenses per 100,000 residents in 2022, a significant drop from 2014 levels, with violent crime making up a relatively small share of overall offenses compared to property crime, according to Data USA. The county's population has grown to roughly 427,415 residents, with about 14.2% living below the federal poverty line, per Niche.
For now, the death on Brack Street remains unexplained. Police have not said whether the case is connected to the earlier June or July investigations, and no further details on identity, cause, or circumstances have been released.
