TRENTON, Fla. (WTVD) — Two Florida sheriff’s deputies were killed in the line of duty Thursday in an apparent ambush as they dined at a restaurant.
Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz, told ABC News that approximately 3 p.m., two deputies were shot and killed in the Ace China restaurant in downtown Trenton, after a suspect walked up to business and fatally shot both deputies through the window.
When fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter dead outside the business, Schultz said.
Earlier, the sheriff’s office said on Twitter that the department has “suffered a terrible tragedy,” and that residents should stay away from an area of Trenton.
FDLE agents are responding to a shooting scene in Trenton, Gilchrist County. All of our thoughts are with @GCSOFlorida and the many responding agencies at this time.
— FDLE (@fdlepio) April 19, 2018
Trenton is in northern Florida, about 35 miles west of Gainesville.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi released a statement Thursday evening saying the two deputies were “senselessly killed.”
Schultz said the incident remains an active investigation with no apparent motive or indications as to why this tragedy occurred.
The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, in the Florida panhandle, wrote on social media that: “about an hour ago, two deputies with the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office were shot and killed in a suspected ambush. Please keep the families of these deputies, Sheriff Bobby Schultz, and the rest of their law enforcement family in your prayers.”
“… a suspect walked up to business and fatally shot both deputies through the window.”
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Gee Whiz, do you think they were on the take and pissed somebody off?
“….When fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter dead outside the business, Schultz said…..”
Did he die of old age? I can’t believe there’s no word on how the shooter died. If he “fatally shot both deputies through the window” who killed him?
“…killed in the line of duty Thursday in an apparent ambush as they dined at a restaurant…”
And I’m sorry, but stuffing your face in a restaurant is not “in the line of duty”.
I guess they didn’t read their (mis)fortune cookies: “Those who mercilessly kill innocents will themselves be killed.” I’m sure many will keep them in prayer………praying that they go straight to hell.
“Those who mercilessly kill innocents will themselves be killed.”
This
I’m not sure I understand the kill lust in the comment section here.
I’m not sure I understand the kill lust of this foreign Zionist occupation and their army of black booted thugs.
Kelly Thomas, James Boyd, Eric Garner, Miriam Carey, Tamir Rice, and Lavoy Finicum, just for a few off the top of my head.
Are you one of those who worship the oppressor in hopes that you will receive better treatment?
Then you obviously fail to understand the true nature of your enemy (or who they are, for that matter).
You will be ‘illuminated’ when they come for you.
Irrevocably.
When 4 deputies were shot and killed in a coffee shop around here 6 years ago, I pondered the chance that they were on the take and screwed somebody over. The lambasting I received from that question made me glad I wrote it in my pseudoname. Heroes they were, or so I was told!
The shooter got away only to die in jail. Mmm, cop killers never die of old age, wonder why?