SHALIMAR, Fla., April 25 (UPI) -- Two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies were shot and killed Saturday while trying to arrest a man who was killed in a subsequent shootout, police said.
Deputy Burt Lopez and Deputy Warren York were attempting to arrest Joshua Cartwright, 28, of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., in connection with a domestic abuse case early Saturday, when the suspect opened fire on the deputies just before 1 p.m. EDT, the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Following the shooting at the Shoal River Gun Club near Crestview, Fla., Lopez and York were airlifted to a trauma center in Pensacola, where they died, WMBB-TV reported.
Cartwright fled the scene of the shooting and was shot and killed after he shot at Walton County deputies who gave chase, the sheriff's office said. Police deployed spike strips on the roadway during the chase but Cartwright went around them and flipped his vehicle, before exchanging gunfire with deputies, WMBB said.
