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'Cop killer' shot 68 times
01/10/2006 21:17 - (SA)
Miami - A fugitive gunman accused of killing a Florida sheriff's deputy was shot 68 times by SWAT
team officers who found him hiding in the woods, according to
post-mortem results.
Police fired 110 shots at Angilo Freeland, 27, the target
of a massive manhunt in central Florida after the fatal shooting
of Polk county sheriff's deputy Matt Williams on
Thursday.
"That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him
more," said Polk county sheriff Grady Judd to the Orlando Sentinel
newspaper.
Judd said Williams was "executed" after Freeland was pulled over in a routine traffic stop on Thursday. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed.
Williams, 39, was shot eight times - one bullet fired at
close range behind the deputy's right ear and another in his
right temple, according to post-mortem results released on Saturday by the sheriff's office.
Sheriff's officials said SWAT team members found Freeland
on Friday hiding under a fallen oak tree in a wooded area near
where the deputies were shot and began firing when they saw a
gun in his hand.
- Reuters
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