A man who died after being shot by Davie Police during a medical call at a home just after midnight Friday was not the recipient of the medical call, officials said Saturday. The resident of the home, who the call was about, has since been released from the hospital.
Three officers are now on administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates.
About 12:30 a.m., Davie Police officers responded to a medical call about a resident at a home in the 14500 block of Southwest 24th Street, according to a news release.
When they arrived, they were “confronted” by the unidentified man, “at which time shots were fired and the subject was struck,” the release said. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Children were inside the home at the time but did not witness the shooting, Sgt. Kelvin Urbaez said in an update Saturday. The resident who was the reason police were originally at the home has since been released from the hospital.
It is unclear why the man who was shot was at the home or if he also lived there. Police did not have that information Saturday.
Davie Police Criminal Investigations and Internal Affairs detectives responded to investigate, along with FDLE, the lead agency investigating the shooting.