Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot a man after he charged at them with garden shears and attempted to steal a gun from a patrol car in Lakeland.
On May 26, around 5:56 a.m., RaceTrac employees at Highway 37 called deputies after they saw Timothy Schulz, 42, shaking and asking employees to call his son. When deputies arrived, they searched for Schulz for about 40 minutes but couldn’t find him.
Around 7:43 a.m., they received a call about a man in a lake full of alligators. PCSO said that at some point while he was in the lake, Schulz was bitten by an alligator on his arm…