A widow is suing the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office over a deputy-involved crash that killed her 74-year-old husband, alleging the deputy was driving nearly 100 mph without emergency lights or sirens activated.

Pamela Martin filed the lawsuit after her husband, Michael Keen, a Vietnam veteran and retired commercial truck driver, died in the Feb. 26, 2021, crash while driving to his part-time job as a courtesy driver at a GMC dealership.

"That morning I got my last kiss and my last 'I love you' from him," Martin said.

Deputy speeding to call involving elementary school kids fight

According to the lawsuit, Hillsborough County Sheriffs Deputy Devin Wooden was responding to a fight involving elementary school children on a school bus when he crashed into Keen's pickup truck at an int

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