KEY LARGO, Fla. – A woman called 911 for help for a Transportation Security Administration officer who later died Wednesday at a gated community in Key Largo.
Lane Caviness, a federal TSA flight deck officer, was killed during a shooting involving the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office at the Key Largo Ocean Resort, deputies said. He was 48 years old.
Monroe Sheriff Rick Ramsay said detectives and squad cars responded and found Caviness to be intoxicated. Caviness went out onto a balcony armed with a gun and dropped it when ordered to, officers said.
Ramsay said that Caviness warned that he was “ready for battle!”
A few minutes later, Caviness came back out onto the balcony, but this time he was armed with an AR-15, Ramsay said.
Caviness “pointed it at the officers, at which point the officers had no choice but to engage him,” Ramsay said, adding, “Four of my officers, detectives and deputies fired their firearms at him.”
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Witnesses said they heard someone yell, “You’re going to kill me! You’re going to kill me!” and then he heard four shots.
Ramsay said officers placed tourniquets on Caviness and called fire rescue personnel who pronounced him dead at the scene.
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