If your willing, please pray for the Lake County, Florida Sheriff's Dept. Friday night two deputies responded to a disturbance where a lady had reportedly hit her neighbor. When officers contacted her, she told them they should check on what was occurring a couple houses down (which was actually her residence).

As the deputies approached, they observed a door kicked in. They entered and immediately received gunfire from multiple weapons. One deputy was shot & dropped inside the residence and the other was hit in the arm, but made it back outside.

Part of the SWAT unit was on-scene within a short time and about four officers attempted entry to retrieve the downed officer. They made it to him, with ballistic shields and learned he was dead....then immediately started receiving gunfire & a lot of it. Another officer was hit multiple times in the abdomen and armpit area, but the others were able to get him and themselves back out of the residence.

Sheriff, SWAT commander, and many more officers arrived on scene and a gunfire exchange occurred. Gas was fired into the residence, but no one came out. Then, more shots were heard and then silence. Another team of officers suited up and entered the residence and found one adult male (head shot, but alive - died later at hospital) and two adult females (dead). All of them were armed with semi-auto rifles and it appeared all had been shooting and ended it with a murder-suicide pact after the gas was fired into the residence.

That SWAT commander is one of my close friends along with one of the officers that made entry to retrieve the downed officer, but had to pull back with his shot colleague. I spoke with my friend that is the SWAT commander last night. He had just left the scene and was headed home when he called me. He just needed someone to talk to that had some LE experience. He was rattled, but he's an Iraqi War vet and I'm hoping he'll be ok along with my other friend (SWAT entry officer.)

He told me it all may have been a setup to get officer to that residence. There were "a lot of guns" inside the residence (friend said more than he and I have)....which would be a lot. And a large stockpile of ammo, along with prepper meals and other similar items, including anti-governement/sovereign citizen type stuff.

The man and woman had adopted two young girls (that were now in their early 20s). To say they were all radicalized might be an understatement.

Please keep these officers and their families...and that entire agency in your prayers.

Thank you.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/03/us/lake-county-florida-deputy-killed-ambush/index.html

Idiots fighting the wrong fight

Prayers for the officers and families

Good riddance to the garbage

These anti government types have serious mental issues,God bless the Officers.

Prayers for the officers and their families.

Easy........

That’s horrible. It did sound like a set up. Your first paragraph, of that woman who directed them to her residence , what happened with her ? If I understand that correctly, that woman needs to be locked up and investigated.

To ambush the very people who would suffer thru a hail of gunfire or worse to save you.
Unimaginable.

God bless the victims and those they leave behind.

Osky

Hard to imagine, but much more likely to occur more often but much better pland and thought out if they try to do door to door like Harris wants. It would get so bad they won't come out of the cities and not without being in large groups. Would.ba a bad time to be in law enforcement


If they were so prepared why didn't they have gas mask would think that would not have been over looked. What's the motive ? Problems with the local government real or precieved. Something like kill dozer or jut some nuts that decided to kill some cops?

What a bad day no one wants to ever get any calls like this. Cops are alway at a disadvantage having to be reactivate in most situations. Hopefully the wounded officer recovers quickly and your friends and others involved can process and deal with it well.

Unreal. Freaks setting up an ambush like that will become more common I'm afraid.
Thoughts are with you SW and your pals.

She was in custody, but I'm not sure what her status is today.

Not sure of motive as of last night. There had been a couple calls to the residence past few years but nothing violent. One was an animal control call. No recent calls to that residence.

I can't go into any details about this....but one of the females got the deceased officer's radio and transmitted over it. Then, she got the officer's cell phone and....... Most radical, evil crap I've ever heard of anyone doing.

Thanks B&B.

Lots of folks are stressing with all that's going on in this country (and the world). It is a hidden danger.

My deputy friends have sure got some recovery to do.

RIP Brothers.... That was always one of the greatest fears as an LEO... especially with one-man cars and only 2 or 3 on the road per shift.

Garry-

I'm afraid this may become more common. I pray that it won't, but it appears the powers that be are willing to fan the flames of societal collapse if it serves their self-centered purposes.

What bothers me is I see no means of stopping the coming maelstorm. It's gone beyond a simple election and a win by either side still results in chaos.

I fear that you may be correct.

Just look at the current situation in the UK.

Godspeed Brothers!

Lock the woman up and throw the key away setting them up.

More info:

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/3...-deputy-killed-2-others-injured-shootout

Whole world has gone mad.