MARGATE, FLA. (WSVN) - An officer was forced to fire inside a Margate home while responding to a domestic violence call, leaving a man dead, police said.
Margate Police units responded to the home in the area of Northwest First Street and Rock Island Road, Sunday morning.
Investigators said the officers were able to get ahold of the mother inside who was hiding in a closet. She said she feared her husband was going to kill her and her 1-year-old child.
Moments later, the husband broke into the closet and the phone call cut off.
Inside the home, police said, officers found the man on top of the woman, choking her, and that’s when one of them shot the man.
The man was rushed to Broward Health North, where he was pronounced dead.
The mother and baby were taken to Northwest Medical Center with minor injuries.
The officer who shot the husband has been placed on administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates.
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