LAKE WALES, Fla. – Sheriff’s deputies in Polk County shot and killed a man they say charged at them with a knife after wandering into a Lake Wales home Friday.
Sheriff Grady Judd said the man, who was not identified, wandered into the garage of the home on Masterpiece Road with a knife and asked for a gun. Witnesses believed he was on drugs.
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When deputies arrived, they told the man to put the knife down before shooting and killing him.
Judd said the suspect, who was a 43-year-old man from the Gainesville area, “asked to be shot... so we obliged.”
Judd said neighbors believed he was the same man who walked into a home while the residents were home on Thursday night, stole food from a refrigerator, and then jumped on the backyard trampoline.
No deputies were hurt.
