CANE CREEK, Fla. (WFLA) — A person died early Tuesday morning in a “suicide by cop” incident in Brevard County, Sheriff Wayne Ivey stated in a information convention.
Deputies had been known as to Egret Lake Manner in Viera at 2:46 a.m. after a household fled to their neighbor’s house and known as 911.
The household reported a person threatening them with a knife and gun. The suspect instructed deputies it was “sport over” and so they must come inside the house and shoot him, in line with Ivey.
After an hour of making an attempt to get the suspect to give up, he left the house with a gun in his hand. In accordance with the sheriff, he pointed his gun towards deputies, and one fired their very own weapon at him.
The suspect died from his accidents on the hospital. No deputies had been damage within the incident, which Ivey described as “suicide by cop.”
“Whereas my coronary heart goes out to those that are fighting a psychological well being dysfunction, it does not give them the suitable to place out deputies’ lives in danger,” Ivey stated. “Should you level a gun at one in all my deputies, you simply assured your self a visit to the hospital on the very least, extra possible the morgue.”
The deputy concerned within the capturing was positioned on administrative depart and the incident is beneath investigation.
