South Carolina man armed with rifle and tactical gear made fake 911 calls in 'ambush to kill cops,' sheriff says A South Carolina man wearing full tactical gear and equipped with a rifle was found dead Wednesday morning after luring police officers into a shooting ambush, authorities said.
One officer was injured after three sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call early Wednesday morning in the Carriage Oaks neighborhood of Columbia, S.C., Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said at a news conference.
Lott said that 25-year-old Frederick Westfall appears to have killed himself after shooting at the deputies who responded to his fake 911 call.
“I’m fortunate I’m not standing here and talking about a deputy being killed like we had in Spartanburg and in Cayce,” Lott said, in apparent reference to two recent incidents where police responding to domestic violence calls were killed by a shooter, the State reported. “Same type situation in that it was an ambush.”
At around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, three deputies responded to an address in Carriage Oaks after a 911 dispatcher received two separate calls from a man who said he'd heard a woman screaming for help. Upon arriving at the scene to investigate, the deputies went to the address given by the caller and found a woman who told them nothing was wrong. .........
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