LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A Lake County sheriff’s deputy is on leave after shooting and killing a man early Saturday in the Clermont area.
The sheriff’s office says deputies were responding to a call about a suspicious person standing in the roadway and yelling at passing vehicles in the area of Via Roma Circle, off Lake Louisa Road in the Clermont area.
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The individual then allegedly approached a nearby home. Deputies say they received another call that the person was pounding on another resident’s door.
When deputies arrived, they say the individual, identified as 39-year-old Eric Escobar, refused to show his hands when commanded to do so.
When he finally did, deputies say Escobar showed a handgun. That’s when a deputy fired his weapon.
Escobar was declared dead at the crime scene.
No one else was hurt.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.
