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Judge Partially Seals Confession in Volusia Deputy Shooting Case

The decision sets the stage for a case tried under broad public disclosure.

Overview

  • Most of Luis Diaz Polanco’s written confession will be released after a Thursday hearing, with parts of 17 pages kept under seal by court order.
  • Prosecutors said they will seek pretrial detention and do not plan to offer a plea, and Diaz Polanco remains jailed without bond.
  • Diaz Polanco has pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.
  • Body-camera video shows gunfire as deputies reached a Deltona home, and Jose Rivera was hit in the leg and in the chest, which his camera deflected into his shoulder.
  • An arrest report says Diaz Polanco called it a horrible day, was off his prescribed medication, and said he would have kept shooting if he had not run out of bullets.