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A suspect in Florida who was killed Saturday for waving a "military-style rifle" at cars and officers was actually a teenage student brandishing an Airsoft pellet rifle.
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Gwendolyn Granade called the sheriff s office on Sunday.
“I saw a man holding a rifle or a shotgun, Granade told Daily Commercial this week. He had a look on his face. I can’t describe it.”
She said she saw Sayre holding the weapon up in the air, then watched him climb a fence onto an adjoining wooded property. She then heard him shout: “Help.”
Granade said she heard a deputy shout, “Show me your hands,” and then heard a single shot.
From the video, it appears Sayre was shot in his right side. He was airlifted to the trauma center at Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford.
DELAND Gwendolyn Granade knew that something was wrong Sunday afternoon when she heard her two horses running around in the pasture, frightened about something.
“I saw a man holding a rifle or a shotgun, she told the Daily Commercial. He had a look on his face. I can’t describe it.”
After holding the weapon up in the air, he climbed a fence and went onto adjoining wooded property. Granade then heard him shout: “Help!”
She called the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
“He’s at the road,” Granade shouted to one of the deputies when they arrived.
“I know,” he replied.