A Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man early Tuesday, November 10, after deputies found him attacking a woman with a knife in an unincorporated part of Jupiter, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Source: The Palm Beach Post, reporting the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office statement, Nov. 10, 2026

Deputies were sent at about 1:39 a.m. to the 6500 block of Jupiter Gardens Boulevard after a report of an armed domestic disturbance, the Sheriff's Office said. When deputies arrived, the agency said, they found the man "violently attacking" the woman with a knife, and a deputy fired his gun. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries.

Source: WPBF 25 News, Nov. 10, 2026 (updated 1 p.m. ET)

Where it happened

The shooting happened in an unincorporated pocket of northern Palm Beach County, near Central Boulevard and south of West Indiantown Road — a residential area of single-family streets in the Jupiter area that lies outside the town's municipal limits. That detail decides who polices the street: unincorporated neighbourhoods in Palm Beach County are served by the Sheriff's Office rather than a town police department, which is why sheriff's deputies, not Jupiter town officers, answered the call.

What officials have — and have not — said

The Sheriff's Office has not released the names of the man who was killed, the woman, or the deputy who fired. It has not said how the man and the woman were related, how badly the woman was hurt, or how many shots were fired. Those gaps are normal in the first hours of a deputy-involved shooting, when identifications usually wait on next-of-kin notification, but they mean the public account so far rests entirely on the Sheriff's Office's own description of what its deputies found.

Three investigations, three different jobs

The Sheriff's Office says its Violent Crimes Division and crime scene investigators are working the scene, alongside the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the State Attorney's Office. In Florida, that three-way split is the standard structure for a deputy-involved shooting: the sheriff's agency investigates the underlying incident — here, the knife attack and the disturbance call — FDLE conducts an independent review of the use of force, and the State Attorney's Office ultimately decides whether the deputy's shooting was lawful or whether charges are warranted. The Sheriff's Office has not said whether the deputy has been placed on administrative leave, which is routine in such cases, or when any body-camera or other video might be released.

What happens next

The next steps are identification and review. The dead man is expected to be publicly identified once his family has been notified, and the medical examiner's findings will become part of the FDLE file. The woman's condition has not been updated since she was taken to hospital. For neighbours on Jupiter Gardens Boulevard, the practical questions are the ones investigators now own: what brought deputies to that address at 1:39 a.m., what the relationship between the man and the woman was, and whether the deputy's decision to fire holds up under the FDLE and State Attorney reviews. The Sheriff's Office says it will release more information as the investigation allows, and this story will be updated when it does.