Video: Timeline: Sheriff gives minute-by-minute details of shootout between children, deputies Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood provided a minute-by-minute play-by-play of what happened leading up to an armed 14-year-old girl being shot by deputies.
Volusia County deputy-involved shooting Both children fired at deputies several times throughout the incident as deputies attempted to resolve it peacefully, the sheriff’s office reported. (WFTV Staff)
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Volusia County deputy-involved shooting Investigators said the children broke into a house on Enterprise Osteen Road around 7:30 p.m. (WFTV Staff)
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Volusia County deputy-involved shooting The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a 14-year-old girl was shot and wounded when she pointed a shotgun at deputies after she and a 12-year-old boy were involved in a shootout. (WFTV Staff)
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Volusia County deputy-involved shooting Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood hosted a news conference to discuss the shooting. He said the incident is something he hasn't seen in his 35 years of policing. (WFTV Staff)
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Volusia County deputy-involved shooting The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a 14-year-old girl was shot and wounded when she pointed a shotgun at deputies after she and a 12-year-old boy were involved in a shootout. (WFTV Staff)
Volusia County deputy-involved shooting Deputies said the shootout originated from a report of two runaways from the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. The 12-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl were reported missing shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. (WFTV Staff)
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Volusia County deputy-involved shooting Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood hosted a news conference to discuss the shooting. He said the incident is something he hasn't seen in his 35 years of policing. (WFTV Staff)
8:31 p.m.: More deputies report that they’ve arrived on scene and are being fired at.
8:33 p.m.: A third group of deputies report gunfire from the home.
8:40 p.m.: The sheriff said the 14-year-old threatened to kill a deputy on scene.
8:54 p.m.: The sheriff said deputies threw a cellphone into the home to try to talk to the pair. The sheriff said the 14-year-old came out of the garage with a pump shotgun and pointed it at deputies. He said despite warnings to drop it, she walked back into the garage, came back out a second time, and was shot by deputies.
Watch Chitwood discuss the case below (warning: Contains graphic language):
Video: Sheriff Chitwood discusses shootout between deputies, children, 12 and 14 Sheriff Mike Chitwood gave a news conference outside the property where he said two children got in a shootout with deputies. Warning: Contains graphic language
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Video: Sheriff: Children, 12 and 14, used shotgun, AK-47 during shootout with Volusia deputies The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a 14-year-old girl was shot and wounded when she pointed a shotgun at deputies after she and a 12-year-old boy were inv (Christy Turner, WFTV.com)
Sarah Wilson joined WFTV Channel 9 in 2018 as a digital producer after working as an award-winning newspaper reporter for nearly a decade in various communities across Central Florida.