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

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

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

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot Timothy Shultz, 42, after a gator attacked him, assaulted a deputy with ...

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

Timothy Schulz, who had a long history of methamphetamine abuse, shook off a gator bite and two Tasings, Sheriff Grady Judd ...

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

A man appeared to have survived an alligator attack while swimming across a lake, then he charged deputies with a pair of ...

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