A member of the Okaloosa County, Florida Sheriff’s Office ‘Special Response Team’, or SRT, has succumbed to injuries after being shot during a response to a domestic violence situation on North Park Boulevard near Fort Walton Beach.
The SRT team had been called out to the residence after the suspect in a domestic violence battery refused to come out of the home earlier this morning.
At some point before one p.m this afternoon., the suspect fired shots out of the residence, striking one of our deputies, who was rushed to the Fort Walton Beach- Destin Hospital, but ultimately could not be saved.
Sheriff Aden and members of the Command Staff are with family members at this time.
The suspect was hit with return fire and suffered a non-life-threatening injury.
We ask for your prayers tonight for our deputy, his family, and all of us at the OCSO as we work to comprehend this tragedy.
