Four people are dead including a mother who was still cradling her now-deceased baby in what Florida sheriff's deputies are calling a massive gunbattle early Sunday with a suspect they said was 鈥渞eady for battle.鈥�
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the unidentified suspect was dressed in full body armor 鈥� including a bulletproof vest 鈥� when he was found outside a Lakeland home that had been booby-trapped.
After two rounds of gunfire with police and deputies 鈥� where dozens 鈥渋f not hundreds of rounds鈥� were exchanged, Judd said, the suspect was shot once and left the home to surrender. Inside the home, authorities found an 11-year-old girl who had been shot multiple times.
She told deputies there were three dead people inside, Judd said during a news conference Sunday.
Kelli Kennedy, The Associated Press
