A police force in Monroe County, Florida, shot down a retired federal agent who was armed with a rifle and who was intoxicated.
The incident was recorded when the local police received several calls from neighbors regarding a drunk, armed and suicidal man in a house in Monroe County.. The subject, hours later, was identified as an off-duty federal agent.
It was known that Lane Morgan Caviness, 48, was found armed on the balcony of a housethe Monroe Police asked him to lower the weapon and the man, following yelling that he was intoxicated and prepared to face the police, entered the house and came out with a rifle.
After pointing the gun at the officers, they fired back. They tried to perform first aid, but Morgan Caviness was already without vital signsreported the newspaper The Washington Post.
Monroe Police said in a statement that “although this appears to be a police suicide situation,” state law enforcement officials will conduct an independent investigation of the shooting.
This is not the first time that Monroe police officers have been involved in unusual events.. In March of this year, three female employees of the department faced various charges of assault following their partners or former partners blamed them for having been assaulted during heated arguments, which ended in physical attacks.
In one of the cases, a person was injured when one of the detained police officers tried to rip a chain from his neck.; in another case, a woman stated that she was injured following being pushed down three steps, and in a third case, a man stated that in the middle of a brawl with his ex-partner, the woman bit him.
The latest woman arrested is an agent who works as a police officer in a school. Another works as a civil employee in the offices, and the third is a prison guard. Although one of the cases has already been dismissed, the three women are being investigated separately by the Internal Affairs Section.
“We do not comment on cases that the Internal Affairs Section investigates until they are resolved, for legal reasons,” added Monroe police spokesman Adam Lindhardt.
(With information from Europe Press)
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