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71. Deputy shoots and kills DeLeon Springs man after rifle pointed at him while trying to serve warrant
A DeLeon Springs man was shot and kiled by a deputy after refusing to put down a rifle while a warrant was being served at his residence as shown in the ocator map.
DELEON SPRINGS -- A Volusia County Sheriff's deputy who was part of a team serving a search warrant early this morning, shot and killed a man on June 29, who armed himself with a rifle and refused orders to put down the weapon.
The shooting occurred at 5:44 a.m., inside a home on State Road 11 in DeLeon Springs. It comes in at No. 71 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the top 100 local stories of 2012.
"The Sheriff's Office's SWAT Team along with patrol deputies and investigators had gathered at the house Thursday morning to execute a court-ordered search warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation," agency spokesman Gary Davidson said. "The SWAT Team had made entry into the residence and was in the process of going through the house room-by-room when a SWAT deputy was confronted by a man later identified as 29-year-old Ross Lambert who armed himself with a rifle."
Davidson said the deputy "took defensive action by opening fire after Lambert refused orders to put down the firearm."
The shooting occurred in a second-floor bedroom. Lambert was pronounced dead at the scene.
This is the first fatal shooting involving a Volusia County deputy in nearly six years. The deputy was placed on administrative duty while the case was investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and was returned to active duty with FDLE concluding he followed proper protocol.
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71. Deputy shoots and kills DeLeon Springs man after rifle pointed at him while trying to serve warrant
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