Emergency radio traffic: Police & firefighters ambushed in FL after house set on fire
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At 10:15 a.m. on November 22, 2014, the Leon County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Tallahassee Police Department and the Tallahassee Fire Department responded to a house fire at 3722 Caracus Court. As the deputies arrived on scene first, the suspect launched an armed ambush attack. Onedeputy was immediately shot and killed. The other deputy engaged the suspect and was shot also.
The suspect took the fallen deputy’s firearm and began walking North on Caracus Court actively shooting at the first responders as they arrived on the scene.
Responders from the Tallahassee Fire Department were also shot at by the suspect as they arrived to fight the fire. Tallahassee Police Officers responded to the area and engaged the suspect, shooting him and killing him.
Karl Etters, Tallahasse Democrat:
In a light rain amid wafting smoke from a house fire in northwest Tallahassee on Saturday, emergency responders tried to piece together the events that led to the shooting death of a Leon County Sheriff’s Office deputy.
LCSO officials say the deputy was ambushed and killed by a gunman while responding to the fire at 3722 Caracus Court in the Plantation Woods neighborhood around 10:15 a.m. A second deputy was shot and injured before the man was shot and killed by Tallahassee Police Department officers who provided assistance.
The name of the slain deputy was not released Saturday. More details about the shooter and the incident are expected at a press conference at noon Sunday.
