BSO deputy fatally shoots man to North Lauderdale shopping center

BSO deputy fatally shoots man to North Lauderdale shopping center

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NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. A Broward Sheriff’s envoy shot dead a 26-year-old man who, according to witnesses, was armed with a knife in North Lauderdale on Thursday, deputies said.

According to a witness, the man, later identified as Jeffrey Guy Sacks, from Parkland, held the knife and piled it back and forth in a store. Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said shipment received several 911 calls and reported that there was a man with a knife who cut himself inside Ross.

He stepped. “You could see the knife when he lifted his shirt,” the witness told Local 10 News.

The first deputy to arrive there saw Sacks walking outside the store and ordered him to drop the knife, but he did not do so, the deputies said.

Authorities said he had threatened to harm himself and the deputy before suing the deputy.

“Our deputy tried to unnerve by making a tactical retreat while returning from the individual when he still came to him with a knife,” Tony said.

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Witnesses recorded the confrontation.

The shooting took place at about 10:45 p.m., at the mall at 7300 West McNab Road.

According to Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for BSO, the wounded suspect was taken to a nearby hospital. Tony said Sacks is dead.

Those who visit the area say Sacks was a familiar sight.

“I see him in this neighborhood asking for money,” one witness said.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the fatal shooting according to standard protocol in a deputy-involved shooting.

Local editor Emily Hales, of the 10 News Commissions, contributed to this report.

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