Posted on 09/28/2006 1:39:03 PM PDT by RDTF
Police were searching for a man who shot two Polk County sheriff's deputies and a police dog following a traffic stop Thursday, authorities said.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said one of the deputies died.
The deputies were taken to a hospital after the noontime shooting in north Lakeland, Judd said. The condition of the other deputy was not immediately known.
The shooter was first approached in a traffic stop, but he then fled into a wooded area, Judd said. Shots were fired, and the two deputies and a police dog were hit, he said.
The shooting occurred near Kathleen High School, which was locked down, Wood said. A woman at the school who would identify herself only as Mrs. Platt said students were locked in their classrooms and were safe.
Television video footage showed armed police with shields searching a wooded area with traffic backed up on nearby Interstate 4, which runs through the city about 35 miles east of Tampa.
A law enforcement helicopter flew over the area, and armed officers were seen surrounding a ramshackle building.
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You are absurd.
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