DAVENPORT, Fla. — Sheriff's officials say deputies fatally shot a man who lunged at them after barricading himself inside a home.
Polk County Sheriff's deputies went to the home to investigate a report of a woman's adult son trying to smother her Sunday afternoon.
She was able to get away and call for help.
The report says the son barricaded himself in a bedroom and lunged at deputies when they entered a bathroom. He stabbed one in the head.
He continued fighting and they shot him. The wounded deputy is expected to make a full recovery.
