CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. — Citrus County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man on Saturday evening, Nov. 7, after the man held a woman in a headlock while holding a knife and continued to threaten her despite deputies' verbal commands, according to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office.

Source: WTSP 10 Tampa Bay

The shooting took place outside Marco's Pizza at 719 NE U.S. Highway 19 in Crystal River, in Citrus County on Florida's Gulf Coast. Multiple deputies fired their weapons, WFLA News Channel 8 reported, and the man died. A shooting involving a Citrus County deputy also prompted a road closure in Crystal River while deputies worked at the scene.

Source: WFLA News Channel 8

What the sheriff's office says happened

Captain Mat Baird of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said deputies gave the suspect verbal commands, but he kept threatening the woman, WTSP reported. Baird, who has been with the sheriff's office since October 2007, serves as captain of its Criminal Investigations Division, according to the sheriff's office.

In its first report on Saturday, the Citrus Gazette reported that the sheriff's office had not yet released any details about the shooting: the identity of anyone involved, whether anyone else was injured, whether anyone was taken into custody, and which agency would investigate the shooting were all still unknown at that point. As of the latest reports late Saturday, the sheriff's office had not publicly released the names of the man or the woman, or information about the woman's condition.

Source: Citrus Gazette

The county's second deputy-involved shooting in just over a month

Saturday's shooting is the second involving Citrus County deputies in just over a month. On Oct. 4, deputies responded to a home on East Seneca Street in Inverness after a man called 911 at around 5 p.m. and threatened to start shooting people in the residence if law enforcement did not respond within 10 minutes, Sheriff Vincent David said.

Source: Tampa Bay 28 (WFTS)

A man later identified as Joey Ray Dawson, 24, came out of a nearby wooded area wearing a gas mask and carrying a backpack, the sheriff's office said. Dawson pulled out a large black object and assumed a stance consistent with firing a weapon at deputies, who opened fire. The object was later found to be a radio, not a firearm, and investigators said Dawson did not live at the residence and appeared to have used the location to lure deputies there. He was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries.

Four deputies fired in the October shooting, and all four were placed on paid administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took over the investigation, the sheriff said. No deputies were injured in that incident, and the sheriff's office released 911 audio and body-camera video from it.

What happens next

The sheriff's office is expected to release the identities of the man and the woman and further details about what brought deputies to the scene. Which agency will investigate Saturday's shooting had not been announced in the initial reports — in the October case, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted the independent investigation. U.S. Highway 19 is the main north–south route through Crystal River and Citrus County, carrying local traffic as well as trucks between the Tampa Bay area and Florida's Big Bend coast, so the road closure affected Saturday-evening traffic around the scene.