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“I heard Deputy Potters respond verbally to the firearm, which got my attention,” Thoman said. Potters was talking to an adult who was sitting in the back. Brevard County deputies Brian Potters and Tyler Thoman had pulled over a car that had three adults and a 2-month-old baby inside. McAlester, Oklahoma, Police Chief Otto Reed and two police officers from the. ( NewsNation Now) Two Florida deputies credit their training for surviving a violent ambush during a traffic stop in late August. Potters and the shooter wrestled each other to the ground, when Thoman opened fire, killing the shooter. The career criminal and prison escapee had been recaptured on June 16. The attacker hit Potters with the butt of his firearm. DoD police and law enforcement officers who perform policing and criminal. Thoman, Potters and the shooter then circled a Sheriff’s Office vehicle. Example 2: A correctional officer was fatally shot while assisting local law. Potters was hit in the leg, but so was the gunman.

“You always try to make small talk with folks, try to get the their opinion on things and what’s going on right there at that point in time, and it just went south real fast.”īrevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said there were 61 shots fired in the next minute. Daily Mail reports Dashcam footage shows the moment two Florida deputies are ambushed by a gunman wanted on two active felony warrants, prompting a shootout that left the career criminal dead and an officer severely injured. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey posted a video Monday night praising two deputies that were involved in a deadly shootout with a suspect.Ivey said he told both deputies involved that he was. “We all always call routine traffic stops routine, but obviously, that’s not the case,” Potters said on “Dan Abrams Live” on Monday. Potters had just finished telling the shooter that he, too, had kids, when the shooting began.

Bodycam video shows shooting ambush of Colorado deputy Deputy Harry Dalton and Correctional Officer Mark Parker were the first law enforcement officers to confront this individual and both were severely injured. County Sheriff’s deputies who were badly wounded last year in an ambush by a man using a ghost gun have sued the company that sold the parts for the weapon.
