 So, thank God everybody is okay. Everybody's gonna be able to go home after this incident. I wanna thank Hasco Fire Rescue. I go back to a weird incident two weeks ago. The partnership with them has been phenomenal. And when we're dealing with these type of situations today with somebody who is turning to blow up a house and possibly other houses around it, they have fire rescue there. That partnership is phenomenal. So I wanna thank them for that. And also Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office bomb spot. With the situation we're dealing with today, as we're two weeks ago, you know, these are very dangerous situations, being rather technical assistance in this situation. You know, gentlemen threatening and blowing things up. That's why we need them here. So we appreciate that partnership. So thank you, Sheriff Chronister, for that. You know, it is all preliminary information. Still the investigation's going on as to what we're gonna find and you know, it will be stated to us. But at approximately 9.30 this morning, Pasco deputies were called to a home for a suspicious incident on Fairmount Drive. It was reported by the victim that Eric Dykstra, date of birth 11, 1966, was in the home. The victim had a no contact order against Dykstra. And let it be stated, Dykstra was just released from the jail. He was there for domestic battery and there for theft. And then he walked home and he went to this house where he violated the no contact order by being in that house. The reason why the victim knew that is that she had cameras inside the house. She had just been looking at the house, looked inside on the cameras and saw he was in there and notified law enforcement. As deputies arrived, Dykstra fired around in the house. The deputies then took a defensive position, a tactical position to make sure they were safe. And then they started calling people out to the scene. Dykstra then went on to make a statement that he was gonna blow up the residents with gas and propane tanks to deter the deputies from going inside the house. We evacuated the nearby houses. So we go back to that part about having a camera inside the house. Because we had the camera, the victim was allowing us to view what was going on. We can see propane tanks, the gas tank light on top of it. So that's why we had to call it Hillsborough County because we didn't know what was going on, what type of explosives were gonna go off. And that's why we evacuated nearby residents. It was a large muster as I go back to Pascapaya Rescue, Hillsborough County, bomb squad, our SWAT team, our behavioral health team came out. Pause this negotiation. We were fortunate that four hours later, after a long negotiations, as I go back to, you had somebody who committed a crime and was in some type of mental health crisis. And so we did everything we could to have a peaceful resolution because he already showed violence, not only once towards the victim, but the domestic battery. He fired around while law enforcement was approaching, then he was threatening to blow up the house residents. So all this came together as one bad incident, but we're fortunate because of the hard work of the negotiators, the SWAT team, everything, we had a peaceful resolution. But I wanna state something right now, it's kind of going off of what happened today. Two weeks ago, we had the incident on 301 where somebody was shooting at law enforcement. We had the incident today, we're sewing fire around law enforcement. I will say this, we will do everything in our power to protect our citizens. We will do everything in our power to protect the law enforcement officers in these seven situations. But we have an issue. There are 700,000 people in our county. The Pasco Sheriff's Office, and I'm not speaking on behalf of my rescue, but I can see it, we do not have the resources to handle all this. Our county has been booming for years, but our resources are not keeping up with the growth. And I'll tell you this, as I was coming here to the scene, there were numerous calls for service going on. People do not stop calling us because they say, oh, there's something bad going on on holiday. I'm gonna not call the Sheriff's Office. Calls were going on. As I was coming here, I would actually made a U-turn to go to a call to assist somebody, but then I got called up because Florida Highway Patrol was able to handle the situation. As I'm coming here, I hear somebody, a suicide threats and progress going on. There's domestic batteries going on. The calls keep coming in. So I'm begging our residents, we need your help. We need the resources because our county is growing. Every citizen in this county deserves to be protected. And we will do everything in our power to protect them, but we just need the resources to keep up with the growth. Because if anybody drives down any corridor in this county, you will see tons of houses going up. We need to be able to keep the resources up for law enforcement. And I say this as a citizen of Pasco County, we also need it for fire rescue so that our departments can serve every citizen in this county and protect everybody, because they deserve that. So would that be anything about the incident charges right now when we have them on the violation of the protection order? And as to our students and all enforcement, everything else is just going to be in jail for them, but the domestic violence injunction against them, we're looking to, I mean, they've been talking to Manette, go back to it. These are, this is society now. This is not just Pasco County, this is all society. The social media, the stress on everybody, everything going on is escalating everything. Violence is out there. I mean, firing around the law enforcement. You know, I'm going to blow things up. People are not looking for peace and resolution, we're very blessed to have unbelievable members of the Pasco Sheriff's Office, our behavioral health team, to de-escalate the situation, house of negotiations to de-escalate it. Had it not de-escalated, that's why it slots there. But I do not know of as long history or anything, I just know that our negotiators were talking to them, and honestly, they did a hell of a job. I'm sorry. I don't know why he was, I don't know why he was in the crisis he was in today, just released from the jail, going to that house, he told everybody to probably take him to take care of behavioral, try to get him assistance, but he committed a crime. The other person that, I apologize, I'm going to wait. The other person often gets lost in these situations is the victim. Our fear is for that victim. Our fear is that God forbid we did not, we weren't walking away from the situation, because our fear is that local justice process should be trying to protect, I'm not sure exactly what got him in that crisis. Not knowing what he had planned. The victim wasn't home when he got there. That's what he said, thank God she had cameras. The angels were looking at him, he was in that house. We're not sure, I mean, if he's going to fire around, and that's what the investigation, we're trying to find out exactly where that round was fired, but he did fire around while the law enforcement was approaching. He did say he was going to blow things up. I mean, who knows what he would have done to that victim, but we're very blessed by God that we didn't have another domestic violence killing in our community. What was she? Was she not your home yet? I'm sorry, what was that? Where was she at when he got to the house? She wasn't at the house. She wasn't at the house, but then I'm not sure where she was. She may have been at work, I'm not sure where she was, but our victim advocates met with her, talked to her, and we'll get her to resources going forward. Because I'll say this, the other part too is, and I don't know the history in this situation. I do know he was arrested for corporate domestic violence, but there should be classes taught at the high school level, because unfortunately people, especially in domestic violence, they don't know how to go through the process. They don't know about how to get into a juncture. That's where our victim advocates stepped up, but that's something that's so critical is to help these people in these types of situations, but honestly, I'm not sure if she put that camera up because of what she went through, but kudos to her for protecting herself and taking those proactive steps. When he was taken into custody, didn't he share why he went to that house? No, not, I haven't talked to detectives yet as to what they were interviewing him with, but I just noted he came out peacefully, which was the best resolution for everybody. It wasn't for these gas tanks from Paytanks, were they all, this may be a tough question, were they all still in that room? What happened? You can actually see on the cameras the two tanks on top of it was red-contained. I mean, I'm sorry, Hillsborough County Bond Squad from Sheriff's Office. That's what the fear is as they're going through, they're going slow and methodical because we don't know if there's moving traps. We don't know what else is going on, so we need to make sure the residents know what's going on. Yeah, I mean, at the moment, the deputy said, how good job? All they hear is a shot being fired. They take the cat to a position. They find out quickly that he's saying he's gonna do the same type of situation while I'm out of there. I mean, and then we go through all the steps of procedures, okay, has everybody evacuated? When time or school's getting it, or have the buses come any times, unfortunately that it almost becomes, okay, we know the procedures, go through the procedures step by step to make sure things are in place, but that's the same. Once we know that that place is cleared, once we know that all the incinerated vices are fine, so maybe another hour or two, I'm not sure. His name? Dijkstra, D-Y-K, S-T-R-A. So I was on the command bus and I don't ever remember, I mean, sometimes we have to send robotics in there and we're trying to get a view, but you literally just saw straight down two propane tanks, a red container on top of it. There's times you can actually see him sitting there with the gun, holding that gun. He said he had a shotgun there, so we had one of you straight down, he would get up to use the restroom or eat or do drugs, and so we couldn't see everything all the time, but that was, yeah. It's one of those things you wish you always had that type of camera on somebody, but in that type of situation, it helped us tremendously. Earlier, you asked for residents to help, because you guys are overworked with all these things. I mean, the recommendation of the community of every house on the camera and it helped you guys out. I think everybody having, you know, cameras around your house that are good, but honestly, it comes down to people. We need more deputies, it's plain and simple, we need more deputies, we need more forensic techs, we need more civilians around the street helping us because the calls for service didn't stop. Even if people had cameras, which is a great idea, it doesn't stop the fact that there was somebody trying to commit suicide. There was somebody laying in a ditch on the Suncoast Expressway. There was other things that were going on across the county and we were holding a lot of calls for service. There was women being battered. We just don't have enough deputies. And so that's what I'm begging our citizens, reach out to your commissioner and say, hey, get us the resources we need because these situations aren't going to slow down. Unfortunately in our society, we're just gonna see more of them. All right, God bless everybody, have a great day.