A man died late Friday night after an officer-involved shooting at a home just outside The Villages.
Anthony Coleman, 38, was pronounced dead at 10:35 p.m. after he was trauma-alerted to Ocala Regional Medical Center. It’s not clear whether he lived at the house on NE 105th Lane off Cherry Lake Road where the shooting took place.
Friday night’s incident started about 6:20 p.m. when a woman called the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office to report a domestic dispute at the house on NE 105th Lane. She met deputies at a nearby church and told them Coleman had punched her dog in the face three times. She said an argument ensued, Coleman pushed her and she fled the home with her children before contacting law enforcement, a sheriff’s office report states.
While the deputies were interviewing the woman, they heard gunshots nearby, so they responded to the area. A short time later, they confronted Coleman, who they say refused to comply with their commands. Coleman eventually raised his firearm at deputies and two of them fired shots that struck him, the report says.
The shooting is under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
