BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Two deputies suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries after a verbal dispute at a Starke gas station erupted into a fight.
Bradford Sheriff’s Major George Konkel, Jr. said he was still gathering information on the scene when he spoke to the Telegraph about the incident.
“Apparently, there was some sort of disturbance that was going on inside the store with this gentleman,” he said, referring to a suspect in the back of a patrol car. “The deputy walked in on it, and apparently, a civilian was actually trying to control the—just an unrelated civilian that just happened to be in the store, tried to control the situation. The deputy walked in on it, and then (the suspect) started fighting both deputies and the civilian.”
Konkel said he believed deputies deployed tasers twice on the suspect.
A woman whom Konkel identified as the suspect’s grandmother was seen shouting at deputies after the incident.
“They hit him in the head, and they tased him twice,” the woman shouted as she left the scene.
Konkel said the woman told him her family member has some type of medical condition.
The major added that he did not know what the argument in the store was about.
