The sheriff's office said the jury voted 9-3 for Eriese Tisdale to be put to death. According to previous reports, Tisdale killed St. Lucie County deputy Sgt. Gary Morales in February of 2013.

FORT PIERCE — For a second time, Eriese Tisdale on Monday was sentenced to death for gunning down St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Morales during a 2013 traffic stop.

Eriese Tisdale, turns to look at his mother Charmaine Tisdale, as the jury is questioned on their 9-3 vote recommending he be put to death for the murder of St. Lucie County Sheriff Sgt. Gary ...

This was Eriese Tisdale's last chance to convince a judge to keep him off death row. Tisdale shot and killed Sgt. Gary Morales after a traffic stop on Feb. 28, 2013.

Convicted felon Eriese Tisdale, 37, listens in on the proceedings during a Spencer hearing with Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, at the St. Lucie County Courthouse in Fort ...

Tuesday’s proceeding, called a Spencer hearing, was the final opportunity for supporters of Eriese Tisdale, 37, and members of Morales' family to try to convince Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman ...

Eriese Tisdale looks toward a panel of prospective jurors in Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman’s courtroom, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, at the St. Lucie County Courthouse.

FORT PIERCE — Eleven years after Eriese Tisdale gunned down St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Morales following a traffic stop, a new jury is being seated to decide whether he should again ...

Eriese Tisdale was sentenced to death for gunning down St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Morales in his patrol car while attempting a traffic stop, but the sentenced was overturned because of ...

St. Lucie County Sheriff Sgt. Gary Morales was shot, killed by Eriese Tisdale during a 2013 traffic stop. There are 276 Florida inmates on death row.

On Monday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Mirman sentenced Eriese Tisdale to death in the 2013 murder of a St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office deputy.

A jury will determine if Eriese Tisdale should again be sentenced to death, or to life in prison without the possibility of parole, for the death of Sgt. Gary Morales in 2013.