Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd explained to reporters why his deputies shot and killed an armed suspect who charged deputies with a pair of garden shears.

The authorities say that Timothy Schulz, 42, of Mulberry, Fla., swam across an alligator-filled lake before a violent ...

Officials said witnesses reported seeing a man swimming in a lake near alligators before police arrived on scene.

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A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack.

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Florida sheriff's deputies opened fire on Timothy Schulz when he went for the weapons inside their patrol vehicle, a sheriff ...

A man who had recently been released from jail was fatally shot by cops after he charged at them with garden shears following ...

Deputies in Florida have fatally shot a man only minutes after he survived an apparent alligator attack in a bizarre series of events. Timothy Schulz, 42, was spotted acting erratically by a ...