Florida Sheriff's Deputy Shot to Death in Patrol Car by Gunman Who Barricaded Himself in House
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A sheriff's deputy at a drunken driving checkpoint was fatally shot in his patrol car Wednesday, and a suspect was killed by a SWAT team after barricading himself at home.
Sgt. Ron Harrison, a nearly 21-year veteran of the Hillsborough County sheriff's office, apparently tried to drive himself to the hospital after he was wounded about 1:30 a.m., Sheriff David Gee said.
A woman driving next to Harrison said he clipped her car as he sped down the road, his lights flashing, then he veered into a tree. Harrison, 55, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"It's unclear if [the shooter] was in a vehicle or if he ambushed [the deputy] from the roadside," Gee said.
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Around the same time, authorities received a call from another woman who said her boyfriend told her he had been in a shooting with a police officer, Gee said. Deputies found the man barricaded in his house, and he repeatedly fired at deputies before he was shot and killed, Gee said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Harrison was the third deputy shot in Florida in the past 10 days and the second to die.