Suspect fatally shot by ‘Good Samaritan’ during deputy attack
A man who is now being called a "Good Samaritan" saw a Florida deputy being brutally attacked and fatally shot the assailant to stop the assault.
A man who is now being called a “Good Samaritan” saw a Florida deputy being brutally attacked and fatally shot the assailant to stop the assault.
According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, who have termed the man who intervened a “Good Samaritan,” the man saw Deputy Dean Bardes being attacked by Edward Strother. The man informed Strother that if he did not stop attacking the deputy, he would shoot him.
However, Strother continued to attack the deputy even as the officer struggled to keep his weapon from Strother. Bardes had been slammed to the ground and pinned down as Strother continued to beat him, until the “Good Samaritan” shot Strother three times.
Mike Scott, the Lee County sheriff, praised the man “who engaged the crazed assailant and stopped the imminent threat of great bodily harm or death to our deputy,” but did not identify him. The “Good Samaritan” reportedly had a concealed weapons permit that allowed him to carry the gun in the first place.
Strother’s family, on the other hand, was appalled by the praise of Strother’s killer.
“They are calling him a Good Samaritan?” Strother’s brother, Louis Strother, said to the News-Press. “Was my brother armed?”
