Police Fatally Shoot Suspect in Deputy Death
From Times Wire Reports
A man suspected of killing a sheriff’s deputy was shot to death in the woods by police near Lakeland after an all-night manhunt.
SWAT members did not see the man until they were beside him because he had dug himself in beneath a fallen oak tree, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Hundreds of officers had used night-vision scopes, tracking dogs, helicopters and door-to-door searches to locate the man. He was found just 100 yards from where Deputy Vernon Matthew Williams was killed Thursday.
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