Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Timothy Schultz, 42, charged at his deputies holding a pair of garden shears after ...

A witness tried to throw the man a preserver. Another witness said the man growled at them when they tried to help.

A 42-year-old man recently released from jail was bitten by an alligator before being shot and killed by Polk County deputies ...

LAKELAND, FLORIDA — A career criminal somehow survived an alligator attack, then died in a hail of bullets by deputies ...

Memorial Day was extra somber for some neighbors living in the Christina Hammock community when they woke up to a round of ...

Before Monday's fatal event, Timothy Schultz was arrested in April and had been released from jail less than a week ago, ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WWSB) - A man Polk County sheriff’s deputies said was exhibiting “bizarre” behavior was shot and killed on Memorial Day when he tried to grab a deputy’s rifle from his vehicle, Sheriff ...

A Florida man was bitten by an alligator before he was shot and killed by deputies on Memorial Day, according to the sheriff’s office.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot and killed Timothy Schultz, 42, after a gator attacked him, assaulted a deputy with garden shears, broke into a patrol car, and attempted to steal ...

A Florida man was shot and killed by deputies on Monday after they say he was armed with garden shears and acting erratically ...