SAFETY HARBOR , 4 Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies shot a 43-year-old Tampa man Thursday who they believed was concerned in a carjacking Wednesday, in accordance with the Clearwater Police Division.
Robert Hubbard was shot after he pointed a handgun at deputies, police stated.
He later died.
The Pinellas County Use of Lethal Drive Investigative Process Drive is investigating the capturing, with Clearwater police taking the lead.
Below the rules specified by the duty pressure’s partnership settlement, the Clearwater and St.
Petersburg police departments divide use-of-force incidents involving Pinellas County deputies , with Clearwater police investigating those who occur north of Ulmerton and Walsingham roads and St.
Petersburg police dealing with those who occur south of that.
Clearwater Deputy Chief Michael Walek addressed the media on the scene.
He stated the occasions started unfolding Wednesday, when Hubbard allegedly stole a automobile at gunpoint in Hillsborough County.
Later that evening, the automobile was recognized in an tried theft within the Trinity space of Pasco County, Walek stated.
He didn't describe the automobile.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace issued an alert concerning the carjacking and described Hubbard as “armed and harmful” and stated he had expressed a need to have a shootout with regulation enforcement, in accordance with Walek.
On Thursday, Pinellas deputies realized the automobile was in Clearwater, however after they arrived on the scene Hubbard fled within the automobile, Walek stated.
Deputies pursued and tried a number of visitors stops, he stated, however Hubbard didn't cease.
Hubbard made his technique to the Security Harbor space, the place deputies tried to make use of cease sticks , a software used to puncture a automobile’s tires , to cease the automobile, Walek stated.
Hubbard ultimately introduced the automobile to a cease close to Phillipe Parkway and Enterprise Highway East.
Hubbard bought out of the automobile, armed with a handgun, and pointed it at deputies, Walek stated. 4 deputies then fired at him.
Walek recognized the 4 deputies as Robert Smith, Daniel Abbott, Anthony Hellstern and Demarcus Flournoy.
Philippe Parkway is closed to visitors north of Enterprise Highway East, Clearwater police stated in a information launch.
The investigation is ongoing, and no different particulars have been launched as of this writing.
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