2 Deputies shot at Caribe Royale Resort

[disneydrmr]

Saw this on the web...I pray they are ok...

2 deputies shot at resort near Disney

Three suspects were involved in the shooting but only two have been apprehended, official says.

Walter Pacheco | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted May 30, 2007, 12:34 PM EDT


Scores of law enforcement converged this morning at a resort near Walt Disney World where two deputies were shot.

Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Solomons confirmed that one deputy was shot in the arm and the other in the vest shortly after 11 a.m. at the Caribe Royale Resort at 8101 World Center Drive.

Both deputies suffered non-life threatening injuries. One deputy was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center. The sheriff's office has not released the names of the injured deputies.

Solomons said three suspects were involved in the shooting but only two have been apprehended. "One is believed to be at large and the subject of an ongoing search," Solomons said.

Law enforcement officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Florida Highway Patrol, Orlando Police Department, and SWAT Team members, among others, gathered outside the resort where some of the state's top officials, including Attorney General Bill McCollum, will be discussing homicide rates, arrest and incarceration, and poverty and violence.

Conference officials have not confirmed if the conference will be canceled.

Check back for more details.

[MarkC]

I feel sorry for the deputies and hope they are OK.

[gueli]

Glad they got 2, but even happier that no officers were killed...
Hope the get the third

[Figment!]

2 Deputies Shot at Resort Along Tourist Corridor Near Disney

Walter Pacheco, April Hunt and Henry Pierson Curtis |Staff Writers
Orlando Sentinel
May 30, 2007

Scores of law enforcement converged this morning at a resort near Walt Disney World where two deputies were shot.

Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Solomons confirmed that one deputy was shot in the arm and the other in the vest shortly after 11 a.m. at the Caribe Royale Resort at 8101 World Center Drive.

Both men were airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. The sheriff's office has identified the injured deputies as Curtis Barnes and John Siller.

Barnes, 42, suffered a gunshot to his right arm. The school resource officer had just celebrated his three-year anniversary on the force on May 14.

Siller, 40, was shot in the chest, but his protective vest appears to have prevented a serious, if not fatal, wound. Siller also is a school resource officer who has been on the force since 1995.

The deputies interrupted three suspects in the middle of an auto burglary, and at least one of the suspects opened fire on Barnes and Siller. The deputies were executing a tactical retreat when they were shot. Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Carlos Padilla said he did not know whether the deputies were able to draw their weapons or return fire. Of the three suspects, only one was known to have a gun, he said.

Two of the suspects were captured shortly after the shooting, on or near resort property. The third man was arrested at a nearby apartment complex after an extensive search. None of the men was carrying identification, Padilla said.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will assist in the shooting investigation.

[Ed]

Both deputies have been released from the hospital, and are recovering at home.

The three suspects have a total of 88 prior arrests among them. That's right - 88. EIGHTY-EIGHT!!!

Why are these animals still allowed to roam the streets?

And if the deputies had been able to get the upper hand and blasted one or more of them into oblivion, the public outcry would have been "He was just a kid; why did they have to shoot him?"

End of rant.

God bless the deputies.

[johnO]

Our justice system is BROKEN. It's so frustrating to deal with people like this who anyone in their right mind would feel belongs behind bars. But they're out here on the street causing more hurt and violence in our cities.