A 41-year-old man with a long history of violent crime is dead after Polk County deputies shot him in a Lakeland street, moments after he allegedly beat an elderly man with a brick and attacked a woman who tried to help.
According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, the suspect, Kentae Govan, shouted, “I am not going back to prison. They will have to kill me,” as the chaos unfolded.
By that point, Judd says, Govan had already turned the neighborhood into a war zone with nothing more than a heavy piece of stone in his hand.
Brutal Brick Attack On An Elderly Neighbor
Sheriff Judd told reporters, in comments carried live by LiveNOW from FOX, that the first 911 call came in around 3:07 p.m…