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Fla. sheriff’s deputy, suspect dead after Shalimar shooting
A veteran Florida sheriff’s deputy and a suspect have died after a shooting and subsequent standoff at a motel after a procedural step in a domestic violence investigation went awry, police said.
Deputy Bill Myers went to meet 33-year-old suspect Joel Dixon Smith around 8:20 p.m. near the Cotton & Gates law firm in the panhandle town, Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley said at an afternoon news conference. The suspect was meant to turn over his guns as part of a domestic violence injunction, but instead Smith opened fire on the 64-year-old lawman, authorities said.
Myers was shot "multiple times in the back, including a gunshot wound to the rear of his head," officials said.
"He was a sick little coward," an emotional Ashley told reporters as he held back tears.
Obviously this is BLM related. This one seemed to miss USMB...weird
A veteran Florida sheriff’s deputy and a suspect have died after a shooting and subsequent standoff at a motel after a procedural step in a domestic violence investigation went awry, police said.
Deputy Bill Myers went to meet 33-year-old suspect Joel Dixon Smith around 8:20 p.m. near the Cotton & Gates law firm in the panhandle town, Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley said at an afternoon news conference. The suspect was meant to turn over his guns as part of a domestic violence injunction, but instead Smith opened fire on the 64-year-old lawman, authorities said.
Myers was shot "multiple times in the back, including a gunshot wound to the rear of his head," officials said.
"He was a sick little coward," an emotional Ashley told reporters as he held back tears.
Obviously this is BLM related. This one seemed to miss USMB...weird