VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Volusia deputies and police shot and killed someone who charged at them with a knife in a home near Daytona Beach on Saturday, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies responded around 9:30 p.m. to a stabbing reported out of the 1400 block of Derbyshire Road, locating two people with multiple stab wounds — a 16-year-old boy and a 39-year-old man — and learning the suspect was still inside the residence, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said on social media.
After calling for the suspect to come out and learning an additional person could be in the house, the deputies teamed up with police to reenter the home and search for more potential victims, the post states.
“As the team moved through the house, the suspect suddenly charged out of a bedroom door, screaming with a large knife raised above his head,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “The suspect was shot multiple times by law enforcement and was pronounced deceased on scene.”
The release states police from Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach and Holly Hill also responded to the incident, adding no deputies or officers were injured.
“It was crazy,” said Michael Scott Ader, who lives near the home. “There had been 15 cop cars out here from Volusia County, Holly Hill, Port Orange — I don’t know if Port Orange — but Daytona, Holly Hill; I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The two stabbing victims were taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment of their injuries and were in stable condition at last check, according to the sheriff’s office.
“Being that it happened this close to home, to where I just moved to a neighborhood that I don’t know — yeah, it’s very concerning,” said Jason Voris.
Ader said he would like to see more deputies patrolling the area as a result of all of this.
“I really don’t feel it’s a bad neighborhood, but I don’t know, It’s disturbing” Ader said. “They kept warning him to ‘Please come out of the house, please come out of the house,’ and he wouldn’t do it.”
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting, the release states. The deputies involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave, following protocol, according to the sheriff’s office.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood will hold a news conference about the shooting at 11 a.m. Monday, July 7.
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