#Florida officers ambushed full#

Oates took to social media to offer his department's help and prayers soon after word began to spread of the incident. Perez also called for prayers from the community. prayers for our partners and ready to offer any needed support from This is going to ignite a bigger fire within us to protect our citizens, our communities and our neighborhoods in Miami-Dade.'. This isn't going to deter us from doing our jobs. These are the people that are causing havoc into our community and we're not going to stop. These are the people that shoot at the Martin Luther King parade. 'These are the people that are shooting our kids. 'We got lucky tonight that the officers will survive,' he explained. 'Today we had a very scary incident,' Perez acknowledged, saying that police on the scene could smell the gun powder in the air and actually ran toward it. Local 10 News showed video of the two officers being helped into Jackson from the cargo bed of an unmarked black police pickup truck. Perez told reporters that the attacks occurred as the officers were conducting an investigation within the Annie Coleman public housing apartments at 2200 NW 57th St. The incident took place on August 30, during a traffic stop along U.S. Gimenez along with a number of Miami-Dade police officers outside Jackson Memorial Hospital on Monday night after the shootings. FLORIDA: Brevard deputies ambushed during traffic stop video shows SeptemMELBOURNE, Florida Newly released video shows the moment Brevard County Sheriff deputies were ambushed during a traffic stop. Perez was joined by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Tyler Vazquez is the North Brevard Watchdog Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Meanwhile, fellow officers conducted a manhunt on the streets where the attack took place. Ivey used his statement Thursday to decry the criminal justice system that allowed him to be out on bond. Perez declared overnight that the 'ambush-style attack' would only serve to ignite his department into action. 'Officers from multiple agencies responded to assist in the search for the shooters, who remain at large.' The other deputy involved was identified as Tyler Thoman.'A responding officer coming to their aide arrived on scene, placed the wounded detectives into his unmarked police vehicle and transported them to Jackson Ryder Trauma Center in stable condition,' she added.

#Florida officers ambushed full#

He was taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to make a full recovery. In addition to his leg, Potters also suffered a skull fracture from when Wilder assaulted him with the butt of the weapon. The sheriff's office also identified the wounded deputy as Brian Potters. 'Let there be no doubt: This individual got exactly what he deserved.' 'I'm just extremely thankful that our deputies are safe and the suspect is no longer on this planet where he could put someone else's life in peril,' Ivey said. Over the years, Wilder faced charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault, drug offenses, battery of a law enforcement officer, and attempted first-degree felony murder.Īt the time of his death, Wilder had two active arrest warrants and was out on bond for felony drug charges. Ivey described Wilder as a career offender with around 40 arrests on his record. The suspect was later identified as Paris Wilder, 38, of Cocoa, Florida. While the assailant's death is not seen in the frame, it is still marked as 'graphic' on Facebook, and viewer discretion is advised. Meanwhile, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office released the video of the West Melbourne shooting on social media as part of a press conference with Sheriff Wayne Ivey. The Polk County Sheriff's Office later confirmed that a suspect was in custody and that no officers had been hurt. This latest incident echoes a similar one in Lakeland, Florida, recently, where authorities were ambushed and fired upon while responding to reports of an infant being shot. Investigators reported that over 60 bullet casings were found at the scene. The incident also left one of the deputies with a bullet wound in his leg. Around this point, one of the officers is able to fire on the suspect at close range, killing him. Deputies with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office had pulled over a vehicle with three adult passengers and a two-month-old infant.Īfter making some conversation with the two others, the deputies ask the third passenger to exit the vehicle.Īs seen in the video, that passenger quickly exits the vehicle and opens fire on the officers with an automatic firearm, forcing them to quickly take cover.Įventually, it appears that the suspect's weapon jams, forcing him to attack the officers with the butt of his gun. 30 near West Melbourne as a routine traffic stop, according to KABC. From Little Rock, the soldiers were towed in keel boats by a steamship to New Orleans and on to Tampa Bay, Florida. A newly released video shows Florida sheriff's deputies being ambushed last month by a suspect described as a 'violent career criminal.'