Brevard county sheriffs ambushed
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I will acknowledge that due to only having (1) camera/video we have a very limited perspective. *** Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica! All Local Sales are FREE!*** GunsAmerica reached out to Ivey to find out how the suspect obtained his firearm, but did not immediately receive a response. Potters suffered a gunshot wound to the lower leg, head lacerations, tissue damage, a concussion, and fractured orbital bones and sinuses, Ivey said. He reloads somewhere off-screen, and returns to fire 15 successive rounds at the suspect on the ground. Potters goes down while Thoman tries to shoot at the suspect, but Thoman appears to accidentally drop his magazine from his pistol. The suspect sneaks behind Potters and smashes him in the head with his pistol. The suspect circles around behind the squad car, but Potters doesn’t seem to notice and continues firing in the direction of the suspect’s vehicle. The suspect appears to get hit in the leg, and Potters can be heard yelling that he’s been hit as well. A firefight ensures during which 61 shots are fired. When Thoman asks Potters to get the suspect out of vehicle, the man emerges wielding an AR-pistol and begins firing at both deputies. Another man leans against the suspect’s vehicle. Deputy Brian Potters speaks with the suspect in the back seat of the car while Deputy Tyler Thoman speaks with a woman standing near a squad car. Incident begins at 3:32 SEE ALSO: WATCH: Sheriff’s Deputy Shoots Attacker Who Came After Him with a Knife One deputy sustained multiple injuries, including a gunshot wound to the leg, but both are expected to survive. I am personally sicked that this thug with such a violent criminal history is out of jail where he almost killed two of our deputies.” “Something is wrong with our system, and it’s time that we as citizens say, enough is enough. “He should have been safety locked behind bars where he couldn’t victimize another citizen or innocent bystanders,” he said. Ivey told reporters that the suspect is the perfect example of “what’s wrong with our criminal justice system.” He had been convicted of robbery with a firearm, failing to register as a career felon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, resisting arrest with violence, and possession of controlled substances. The suspect had previously been charged with 40 crimes during the course of his career, including drug trafficking, aggravated assault while discharging a firearm, battery on a law enforcement officer, and attempted first-degree felony murder. SEE ALSO: Graphic Video: Deputy Shoots Concealed Carrier Through a Window Inside His Own Home Thoman is then seen firing multiple rounds, killing Wilder, ‘thus eliminating the threat and saving Deputy Potter’s life,’ Ivey said.The suspect died at the scene after opening fire on two deputies. Ivey said Wilder ‘fired numerous rounds at our deputies’ and ‘used the butt of the rifle to violently and repeatedly strike Deputy Potters in the head, causing significant injuries and lacerations’.
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The suspect then ambushes Potters from behind, beating him with the gun and knocking him to the ground. Wilder runs towards the deputies and they try to take cover behind the sheriff’s car.
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‘I’ve been hit,’ Potters shouts as Wilder starts hopping on one foot, appearing to have been shot too.
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Potters is then seen running away from the gunman as Wilder takes cover behind the car and continues shooting. Ivey suggested Wilder was ‘avoiding arrest as he knew he was facing several minimum mandatory prison sentences in his pending cases’. Wilder was out on bond for two felony drug charges and two active felony warrants when the shooting happened. ‘He (Potters) is immediately and without warning ambushed with a small stock AR-15-styled rifle that is pointed and fired directly at him,’ Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in the video. He was out on bond for two felony drug charges and two active felony warrants when the shooting happened. Paris Wilder (pictured) was a career criminal with 40 previous arrests.