When Charlotte County Sheriff’s Sgt. Elio Diaz was killed at a Port Charlotte gas station on Dec. 15, 2024, his fellow deputies used video from cameras at the convenience store to quickly learn what happened, then used license-plate readers to track down his assailant who was a few miles away.
Deputies closed in on the man within an hour of the shooting as he was sitting in his pickup behind a Popeye’s restaurant.
The man refused to surrender, and a deputy fired, killing him, officials said…