Deputies shot at responding to stabbing in Orlando

Deputies shoot, kill armed man outside Goldenrod Road bar

By Anika Myers Palm, Orlando Sentinel
6:59 a.m. EDT, April 1, 2011

One man is dead and two other men, including a deputy, have been wounded in an incident this morning outside a bar, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.

When two deputies arrived at the Laughing Horse Tavern at 907 North Goldenrod Road about 2:56 a.m., they found one man who had been stabbed or cut several times. As Deputies Daniel Shapiro and Hector Lopez treated the injured man, another man with a gun confronted them, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The armed man shot at the deputies, who returned fire and killed him. Shapiro was struck during the exchange of gunfire, but his bullet-proof vest caught the rounds, Sheriff Jerry Demings said outside Orlando Regional Medical Center this morning.

Demings said the two deputies handled the situation well.

"It looks like the deputies did everything they needed to do to go home this morning," Demings said.
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Deputies shoot, kill armed man outside Goldenrod Road bar