Francis Manuel Ortega, a 25-year-old Hispanic male, tragically lost his life on August 11, 2005, in Pine Lake, Georgia. Officer Ortega was serving as a part-time police officer for the Pine Lake Police Department and a full-time officer with the Georgia Department of Human Resources Police. On the day of his death, Officer Ortega and his partner conducted a routine traffic stop in front of the Pine Lake Post Office on Rockbridge Road SW. After obtaining paperwork from the driver, they returned t
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