He said he saw Smith's body near his yard, watched Holley take the deputy's firearm and then begin to rummage through his patrol car through an open window. Small sent them into the bathroom while gunshots rang out through the neighborhood. "Once I heard the shots, my reaction was to get my wife and 18-month-old son to a safe place." When his wife looked outside to investigate it, the gunfire started.
Small said as the family was readying to leave for the day, he smelled smoke. Joseph Small, who lives two doors down from the house with his wife and 18-month-old, watched the terrifying scene unfold through his front window. "There is no doubt that the actions of our deputies and officers prevented additional loss of life." "Our responders yesterday were targeted for no other reason than that they chose to spend their lives helping people," said Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo. Holley began moving up the street continuing to shoot, until he was shot and killed by Angulo 12 minutes after the planned killing-spree began.
Once the firefighters were out of harm's way, Wulfekuhl turned to leave to take cover himself and was shot by Holley in the center of his back, but the bullet was stopped by his vest. "They are the reason that this casualty count is not higher than what it is." James McQuaig, surrounded by more than 20 officials from a dozen agencies that helped work the scene. "These first responders performed their duty bravely, with courage and with honor," said Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Other law enforcement veterans choked back tears at an emotional Sunday news conference at the Leon County Sheriff's Office, where the identity of the fallen deputy, the gunman and details of the firefight were revealed. Smith.Īngulo shot and killed the gunman, 53-year-old Curtis Wade Holley, after a 12-minute mid-morning gun battle in the middle of the street in the northwest Tallahassee Plantation Woods neighborhood.
Tallahassee Police Officer Scott Angulo hugged residents along Caracus Court on Sunday, sobbing as he stopped to talk in the driveway of a fire-gutted home.Ī day earlier, a man set the home ablaze to lure first responders to the street so he could gun them down in an ambush that killed Leon County Sheriff's Deputy Christopher L.
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