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Okaloosa County S.O.
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Published: Tue, July 22, 2008 - 7:16 am
Last Updated: Tue, July 22, 2008 - 7:32 am
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Deputy died this morning after the unit’s Special Response Team entered a home on Plymouth Avenue in Fort Walton Beach. The subject inside the house, who had threatened to shoot law enforcement officers, died at the scene.Officers had been dealing with the subject since late Monday afternoon after serving an ex-parte order, a court order for involuntary examination under the Baker Act. The man was taken to the Bridgeway Center, but later transported to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. He left the hospital but was picked up again by law enforcement. He kicked out the window of a patrol car. Deputies took him back to the hospital but he escaped again.
Early Tuesday morning, deputies learned from a citizen that the subject had apparently barricaded himself in the Plymouth Avenue home with a shotgun. The Special Response Team and Crisis Negotiation Unit attempted to talk him out around 6 a.m. After getting no response, the unit entered the house. The subject shot a deputy who later was pronounced dead at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. Deputies returned fire and the subject died at the scene.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is mobilizing all its resources to deal with this tragedy.
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Say a special prayer for our men in uniform. The pay is low, the danger is high and often they receive little respect from the people they deal with. I feel so sorry for this Deputy’s wife and young daughters. This was a senseless tragedy that cost a husband, father and friend his life. My heartfelt condolences to his brothers in uniform and especially to those who were there with him during this stand off it is a day they will never forget. God Speed.