Deputy and his alleged killer slain
A sheriff’s deputy was killed in Brandon, the third law enforcement officer shot in the state in 10 days.
Hillsborough County sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Harrison was shot in his car shortly after leaving the drunken-driving checkpoint he was manning.
The suspected gunman barricaded himself in a nearby house and was fatally shot by SWAT team officers.
Investigators were looking into whether Harrison’s shooting was racially motivated, Sheriff David Gee said. Harrison was black, and Michael Allen Phillips, the white man believed to have shot him, made a reference to a neo-Nazi group before he was killed, Gee said.
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