SPRING HILL and BRADENTON -- Two more shootings involving law enforcement are under investigation.
In Hernando County, sheriff Al Nienhuis says 61-year-old James Collins barricaded himself inside a home on Embassy Avenue in Spring Hill in a domestic incident. Negotiations went on for 12 hours before Nienhuis says Collins came out and pointed a rifle at deputies around 1 a.m. Wednesday. "I'm not going back to prison, you're not going to take my weapons," is what Neinhuis says the man said. The deputy who fired is on administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates.
Meanwhile, in Bradenton, Manatee Sheriff Rick Wells says they answered a call at a home on the 4300 block of 80th Street West, in which a woman reported that her brother was stabbing her boyfriend. A deputy saw three people in the carport. Wells says the suspect raised his hand and turned toward the deputy with a gun in hand, in a shooting stance. The deputy fired several times. Both the suspect and the stabbing victim have been taken to Blake Medical Center in critical condition. The Manatee deputy was not hurt. Wells says they had responded to the home before, and that the brother was apparently angry because the boyfriend wasn't paying rent. Wells describes the scene as "gruesome."
This follows Tampa's police involved shooting Tuesday. Police say 26-year-old Dominique Mulkey raised his gun toward officers who intercepted him after an armed robbery at the Dollar General on North 50th Street. Two officers fired. Mulkey died at a hospital. The officers were unhurt.
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