LOOKING GOOD FROM DEAN ROAD EAST TOWADS ROUSE. HEADING EAST, SO FAR SO GOOD.
>>> A DEPUTY IN SERIOUS
CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOT
MULTIPLE TIMES.
INVESTIGATORS SAY HE GOT INTO A
SHOOTOUT WITH A MAN FOLLOWING A
FEUD BETWEEN NEIGHBORS.
EZZY CASTRO IS AT HOSPITAL WHERE
THE AT THE PRESENT IS UNDERGOING
SURGERY.
WE STARTER WITH MARK LEHMAN LIVE
AT THE SCENE.
THIS ALL STARTED WITH A CALL
ABOUT FERAL CATS?
>> THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS
THERE WAS A DISPUTE BETWEEN
NEIGHBORS OVER FEEDING THE CATS.
THAT’S WHAT PROMPTED THE CALL
OUT HERE LAST NIGHT.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THE GUNFIRE
STARTED.
>>> SOMETIMES GOING ON
DISTURBANCES IS ONE OF THE MOST
DANGEROUS PART OF OUR TEAM’S
JOB.
>> IT IS A DANGER THAT PRESENTED
ITSELF AS A DEPUTY RESPONDED TO
BREAK UP A FIGHT BETWEEN
NEIGHBORS.
THE SHERIFF SAID ONE OF THOSE
MEN WAS EXTREMELY AGITATED.
>> AT ONE POINT HE GOES BEHIND A
VEHICLE PARKED NEARBY.
>> INVESTIGATORS SAY THE GUNFIRE
STARTED, SEVERAL ROUNDS WERE
FIRED, INCLUDING THE DEPUTY
EMPTYING THE MAGAZINE OF HIS
SIDE ARM.
>> THE NEIGHBOR PULLED OUR
DEPUTY INTO THE DRIVEWAY WHERE
HE COULD HAVE SOME COVER.
>> THE SHERIFF SAID THE DEPUTY
WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES AND
RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL IN
SERIOUS CONDITION.
THE SUSPECT ALSO SHOT HE DIED
FROM HIS INJURIES.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE BULLET
HOLES IN THE TRUCK.
SO FAR, THE NAMES OF BOTH THE
DEPUTY AND THE MAN WHO WAS
KILLED HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED.
WE ARE WORKING TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT THAT AND WORKING TO GET
OTHER QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT
THE SHOOTING AS THE
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.
>> Kristin: OUR TEAM COVERAGE
CONTINUES WITH EZZY CASTRO.
SHE IS LIVE FROM HOLMES REGIONAL
CENTER.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HIS
CONDITION AT THIS POINT.
>> WE ARE TOLD THE DEPUTY WAS IN
SERIOUS BUT IN STABLE CONDITION
WHEN HE FIRST GOT HERE TO THE
HOSPITAL.
THE LAST UPDATE WE GOT, HE WAS
GETTING PREPARED FOR SURGERY
THIS MORNING.
WAYNE IVEY SHOWED UP AFTER THE
SHOOTING.
THE SHERIFF SAID THE DEPUTY WAS
ALERT AND TALKING.
WE LEARNED THE DEPUTY JOINED THE
SHERIFF’S OFFICE LAST YEAR.
HE IS AN ARMY VETERAN.
IT WAS THE SOUND OF HIS RIFLE
THAT LIKELY SAVED HIS LIFE LAST
NIGHT.
>> HIS STATEMENT TO ME WAS -- I
COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF HIS
TACTICAL PREPAREDNESS AND HIS
ABILITY TO WITHSTAND SOMEONE
SHOOTING AT HIM WITH A RIFLE AND
BEING ALBERTO TO BE WHERE HE IS
RIGHT NOW, BEING PREPARED FOR
SURGERY.
>>> TUESDAY NIGHT’S SHOOTING
MARKS THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS A
DEPUTY HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY
WOUNDED IN A SHOOTING.
IN 2015, AGENT JOHN CASEY SMITH
WAS CONDUCTING A PROSTITUTION
INVESTIGATION IN PORT ST. JOHNS
WHEN HE WAS SHOT SEVERAL TIMES.
NO DEPUTY HAS BEEN SHOT SINCE
BARBARA PILL WHEN SHE WAS SHOT
BY A SUSPECT IN 2012.
BACK OUT HERE LIVE, THE
SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS NOT
RELEASED THE NAME OF THE DEPUTY
YET.
WE DO EXPECT ANOTHER UPDATE IN A
COUPLE OF HOURS, AS SOON AS WE
GET THAT INFORMATION, WE’LL PASS
THAT ALONG.
>> Kristin: WE ARE FOLLOWING ALL
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON THIS
DEPUTY INVOLVED SHOOTING.
TO GET UPDATES WHEN ON THE GO,