BULLETIN: A Leon County sheriff’s deputy has been shot and killed in what authorities are calling an “ambush.”
Early reports suggest the following circumstances:
- A house in northwest Tallahassee, the state capital, was set ablaze.
- The deputy was a first-responder and was shot and killed at the scene of the fire by the person who set the fire.
- The person who shot the deputy took the deputy’s gun and fired shots with it in the neighborhood, striking another deputy.
- Other law-enforcement personnel at the scene shot and killed the suspect.
Video of remarks by Sheriff’s Department at scene: