Deputy, Seeking Suspects, Dies in Fall From Copter
United Press International
ORLANDO, Fla. —
A deputy sheriff plucked by helicopter from some brush during a search for suspects in a shooting slipped off the aircraft’s thin landing rails early Wednesday and fell about 40 feet to his death, authorities said. Frank Seaton, 24, landed in the parking lot of a shopping plaza in West Orlando.
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