
A man is in critical condition Monday night after he was shot by deputies in Oakland Park while armed with a knife, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
Multiple people called 911 shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday about a man “behaving erratically” who was waving a knife at people driving by and throwing large rocks at cars near the 500 block of East Oakland Park Boulevard, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Jarcara A. Mansfield, 39, of Fort Lauderdale, was armed with a knife when deputies and SWAT personnel arrived. They talked with him to try to de-escalate as Mansfield continued acting erratically and yelling for deputies to “kill him,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies used multiple “less than lethal weapons,” and Mansfield “charged” toward the deputies while still armed, the Sheriff’s Office said. Two deputies shot at him, and Mansfield was hit multiple times.
The Sheriff’s Office did not provide further information about the less-lethal weapons deputies used.
Oakland Park Fire Rescue took Mansfield to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, where he remained as of Monday evening.
The two deputies who shot their guns are on administrative assignment while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates the shooting, as is standard policy.
The Sheriff’s Office said Mansfield will face one count of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and one count of resisting arrest with violence.
It is at least the fourth shooting so far in 2025 involving law enforcement officers in Broward County. Last week, an off-duty Fort Lauderdale Police officer shot and killed a man at an RV park marina.
On Jan. 19, a Fort Lauderdale officer shot and killed a man who got out of his car at a gas station “with what appeared to be a firearm” after fleeing from an earlier traffic stop, the police department previously said. On Jan. 9, Fort Lauderdale officers shot and killed a man who was throwing “incendiary devices” after receiving a call about a fire.