Florida regulation enforcement officers shot and killed a person who allegedly threatened to stab his girlfriend earlier than threatening police with the knife.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd mentioned throughout a press convention Tuesday night time that officers responded to a 911 name simply earlier than 8:45 p.m. that night time, after a lady reported that her boyfriend, 55-year-old Angelo Theodore Curcione, tried to stab her with a knife.
Officers from the Auburndale Police Division responded to the scene inside six minutes, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned, however by then, Curcione had already fled.
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd speaks in regards to the officer-involved capturing of a person who threatened officers with a knife Tuesday. (Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace Fb)
Judd mentioned a Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace Okay-9 unit and one other Okay-9 unit from the Auburndale Police Division started looking for the suspect with one other officer.
After about 10 minutes, one of many Okay-9s alerted the officers to a neighborhood entrance and Curcione emerged from the bushes whereas holding a knife in assault mode.
The suspect shouted, “Shoot me! Kill me! Shoot me! Kill me!,” Judd mentioned, including that the suspect was aggressively approaching the 2 officers and deputy.
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A Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace Okay-9 unit and one other Okay-9 unit from the Auburndale Police Division started looking for the suspect with one other officer. (Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace)
The authorities then shot and killed Curcione.
“He obtained precisely what he requested for with a menace of loss of life to 2 cops and my deputy,” Judd mentioned. “The three of them shot. They shot a number of instances, and he was deceased on the scene.”
The sheriff described Curcione as somebody with a violent legal historical past, as he has had 45 legal costs filed towards him since 1986.
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The suspect shouted, “Shoot me! Kill me! Shoot me! Kill me!,” based on Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who added that the suspect was aggressively approaching the 2 officers and deputy. (iStock)
Curcione had been sentenced to time in a New Jersey jail for making an attempt to homicide a regulation enforcement official, and was lately launched, based on Judd.
“It’s profitable when our deputies aren’t injured, when our Auburndale cops aren’t injured, and when the suspect is taken into custody, and he was taken into custody the way in which he needed to be,” Judd mentioned. “He dedicated suicide by cop. When he jumped out of these bushes with that knife in a threatening place, superior on the officers and the deputy and mentioned, ‘shoot me, kill me, shoot me, kill me.’ They complied along with his request.”
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The officer-involved capturing is underneath investigation by the tenth Judicial Circuit Officer Concerned Lethal Incident Activity Power.