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The current Sheriff is U.S. Marine Corps veteran Peyton C. Grinnell who was elected November, 2016 in the Lake County general election. [1] He succeeds Sheriff Gary Borders (d. Nov. 2021), who was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush following the death of Sheriff Chris Daniels in 2006, and was subsequently elected in 2008, and 2012.
Link, 28, first joined the county sheriff’s office as a young Explorer and served in the Army reserves before being hired as a deputy sheriff in Polk County in 2017. He joined the Lake County ...
Willis Virgil McCall (July 21, 1909 – April 28, 1994) was sheriff of Lake County, Florida. He was elected for seven consecutive terms from 1944 to 1972. He gained national attention in the Groveland Case in 1949. In 1951, he shot two defendants in the case while he was transporting them to a new trial and killed one on the spot.
Plantation, Florida: After reports of shot fired, police responded to the area where Spencer was. Spencer, with a history of mental illness, was found with a firearm that he pointed at police. They shot and killed him. [21] 2023-04-07 Mark Wadsworth (62) Edgewater, Florida: Wadsworth was shot following pulling and pointing a gun at responding ...
The shooting happened at a home in Eustis about 40 miles north of Orlando around 8 p.m. Grinnell said. ... Law enforcement officers in Lake County, Florida, respond to the scene of a shooting that ...
Sanford, Florida: A man suspected of shooting and killing a mother and her three children in Lake Wales was killed after a standoff at a motel in Sanford. [86] 2023-05-03 Everett Rand (29) Black Newark, New Jersey: Rand was wanted for killing two people during a domestic dispute. Following a shootout, police shot and killed Rand. [87] [88] 2023 ...
Article Location Date Number killed Number injured Description Jim Jumper massacre: St. Lucie County: February 14 or 15, 1889: 7+ 1: Killing of Seminoles: Rosewood massacre
Police tried to use Marsy’s Law to keep their names secret in shootings. The Florida Supreme Court rejected that but Florida lawmakers are trying again. | Opinion