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Oakland Park Deputy-Involved Shooting Leaves 35-Year-Old Dead

State investigators are reviewing the shooting.

Overview

  • Broward deputies responded just after 7 a.m. to reports of a disturbance near Northeast 35th Court and Fifth Avenue.
  • Investigators say the man was waving a machete on a sidewalk before a confrontation along the 300 block of Northeast 33rd Street.
  • At least one deputy fired a weapon, striking the 35-year-old, who was taken to a hospital and later died.
  • 7Skyforce footage showed a machete on the sidewalk with an evidence marker at the scene.
  • FDLE opened an investigation and the involved deputies are on administrative assignment, as a witness and the man’s mother offered conflicting accounts of the encounter.