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Interesting that this happened during a live broadcast.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216439,00.html

September 29, 2006 11.23 am
Lakeland, Fla.

Of course it is a thankless job to try and call a sheriff on a cell phone when that sheriff is organizing a 500-officer manhunt for a suspect who killed a sheriff's deputy.

He's never gonna answer, or he will be far too busy to talk, so someone might think, why bother? Why not just wait, and the information will come out on the wires? But someone at a desk in New York called and called and called, and got through to Sheriff Judd. He was on the air talking to our anchor when shots broke out yards away from him — and he could tell what had happened, that he thought they got their suspect, that hundreds of shots had been fired, and that he thought the suspect was dead.

Other articles I'd read said they had searched the areas heavily for 24 hours, with men and dogs. The brush was so thick the officers were walking shoulder to shoulder, and were almost literally on top of the guy when they spotted him. When he pointed a pistol instead of sticking his hands up, they unloaded on him.

Kevin

flintknapper wrote:I think the article says he was hit 68 times not 98, but that works too.

Yup, typo. I corrected it. I had it correct in the subject line.

http://www.wjla.com/headlines/0906/365477.html

Florida: one deputy wounded, another killed along with his K9 partner. Manhunt ensues for the suspect who fled into the thick underbrush. Fox News manages to get the sheriff on his cell phone, for a brief interview which is interrupted by "hundreds of gunshots" and "I think we got him!" (per the sheriff).

Autopsy says that 68 of the 110 rounds fired hit the critter who was crawled up beneath a tree, and who pointed the dead deputy's pistol at the officers who had him surrounded.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he was not concerned by the number of shots fired.

"I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that's all the ammunition they had," Judd said. "We were not going to take any chance of him shooting back."

Aight, den. Sounds reasonable to me. So long as the entrance wound, exit wound, and hole in the floor don't line up...

Kevin