Samaritan kills suspect beating police officer after traffic stop

Passerby shoots, kills motorist assaulting deputy after traffic stop

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A suspect is dead and a deputy is in the hospital after a shooting took place on I-75 near the Corkscrew Road exit, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office. Witnesses who say they saw the whole thing happen told us a deputy tried to pull over a man near the exit. The suspect took off in his vehicle, reaching speeds up to 100 miles per hour. Eventually, the driver got out of his car on an off-ramp and attacked the deputy. That's when witnesses say a third person came over and shot the suspect, who later died. ... "I saw the deputy and the suspect out of their cars with the doors both wide open and they were some type of altercation," Ambrosini said. "He just kept beating him and beating him," said Shanta Holditch. She said the deputy was pulled out of his patrol car by the suspect, "throwing him to the ground and punching him in all different directions." "I heard like three shots. He fell down on top of the police officer," said Mr. Smith, a witness. "After a moment, the police officer rolled him back over, got on his mic, then rolled over back on the ground besides the guy." Holditch said the suspect "refused to get off the officer and the officer kept yelling, 'shoot him, shoot him, shoot him,' and then he shot him. I think approximately three shots were heard."

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