A barricaded man attacked a K-9 and was shot by BSO deputies in a home in Pompano Beach on Tuesday, Sheriff Gregory Tony said.
Someone called the Sheriff’s Office just after 1:30 p.m. to report a “suspicious incident” in the 2300 block of Bay Drive, spokesperson Miranda Grossman said in a statement late Tuesday night. She did not provide further information about what the incident was.
Deputies “made contact with an armed individual” once they responded, and “at some point during the response, a deputy-involved shooting occurred.”
Tony told reporters at the scene late Tuesday that the man barricaded himself inside of a vacant home. For hours, deputies tried to negotiate with him to get him to leave as he made threats toward them.
Deputies sent a drone inside the home, which Tony said allowed them to find the man inside one of the rooms and see that he had a gun. Deputies heard gunshots after he apparently shot at the drone.
A second drone was then sent into the home, and Tony said it appeared the man also shot himself at some point. Eventually they sent in a K-9, and the man attacked the dog. Deputies then entered the home, and the shooting unfolded.
“The dog ended up coming in contact with him, and he started attacking the dog. He struck the dog with the drone,” Tony said.
SWAT deputies shot at the man, killing him, Tony told reporters.
The man’s name was not released late Tuesday. WPLG-Ch. 10 reported that the man had a criminal history and previous felony convictions.
It is at least the 13th shooting involving South Florida law enforcement officers since the start of the year. Most recently, a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed a man in Cooper City last month after the man shot himself during a fight with his mother and “attacked” one of the deputies who approached him.
Earlier in August, a man who was suspected in multiple robberies and a recent shooting that left someone in critical condition died after a shooting with a Hollywood Police officer.
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