 Good afternoon. So just start off this still preliminary investigation. There's still information is going to be coming out. We're trying to still put some pieces together. Where I should have started with this. Thank God Almighty that the law enforcement is okay and that our public's okay. After what I'm told this morning this afternoon and what could have unfolded could have been much worse. I'm going to go a little bit further into this, but you know, things were slow, they're methodical, but our women and men were professional in everything they did. You know, we weren't going to rush into anything because at the moment there was nobody hurt. We wanted to make sure that things are done properly. And that's what we're very blessed. Everything worked out very well for law enforcement. It's a sad outcome for one individual's family, but at the same time is for what he did. It could have done. It could have been way worse for those that were innocent people out there. So I want to start off on with that GEPTLE. We have a special agent in charge, Mark Brutnell, Tampa Police Chief Lee Barkal. Seth Ferrell's Police Chief, Derek Brewer. U.S. Marshals were involved, the Pasco Fire Rescue, Hillsborough Sheriff's Office, their EOD was here for technical support. I also want to thank Lowe's. We're in the parking lot and also he talked about a great community in Pasco County. Lowe's came above and beyond to assist us because we were out here for a long time today. So thank him for that. The suspect in his case is Alfredo Luis Rodriguez. His date of birth was 22592 and he was 31 years of age. And the location was right up the street at Ruth Avenue 301. This morning, the Tampa Bay Marshals Task Force assisted. They were called out because Mr. Rodriguez had a couple warrants. Inactive Thony Warrant, Pasco County for criminal mischief. Inactive Hillsborough Warrant for a VOP out of Grand Theft out of Hillsborough and Provation for Grand Theft in another location. But the primary reason was he was a suspect in a homicide. And so because of those warrants, we wanted to bring him in and the agencies that were involved wanted to talk to him about the homicide that he was possibly involved in. He had a long history. He was arrested for resisting with violence, battery hit and run, DUI, and leaving a scene of a crash. So this is somebody that's been involved in the criminal justice system for a few years. Around 645, the Pasco Sheriff's Office detective who was on the Marshals Task Force notified dispatch that he was going with the US Marshals Task Force to the location to serve the warrants. The notified patrol, as they were going up, they go to the door to knock on it. And the suspect's girlfriend answers. They quickly take her from the scene. She's pregnant. They wanted to get it out there because they were afraid he was going to be violent, which their instincts proved to be right. Very shortly after he starts firing rounds at the task force. At that time, a member of the Tampa Police Officer who's on the task force returned fire. Pasco patrol starts hearing us over dispatch. They start arriving on scene. The suspect then continues to fire rounds. At one point, a Pasco deputy returns rounds on the suspect. So this just leads to the very beginning. This is still seven something in the morning when this is going on. You know, as this is going on the rest of the day, our members go out there. Our SWAT team gets activated. Hodges negotiation gets activated. All these agencies here today put forth all the effort we can for a peaceful resolution. You know, any type of things, I get it. We could be cowboys and run in there, but that's not what we were supposed to do. We are trying to find a peaceful resolution because what we did not want is one of our member shot. What we did not want was one of our canine shot. And what we wanted to do is find a peaceful resolution in this situation. The other one too is we very quickly, while this is going on, was remove the citizens in the area that we felt were at risk because you never know where those rounds are going. Those rounds don't have names on them and they could hit anybody. So we wanted to make sure they were safe. So as the state was going on, our tactical team went out there, house negotiation, our drones, everything we could utilize to have a peaceful resolution. So we were going through this methodically and the suspect was talking to us throughout the time. He was on or off the phone. So we know that in the beginning he did not incline to us at all that he had been shot, no injuries. He was talking to us. Around 1245, we know there was one room left that he was in, our robotics, drones, everything we were trying to do to get back there. The women and men, the SWAT team, everything was going forward. We were trying to still negotiate with them. However, at some point we were able to make entry in that room. As we made entry, we realized that the suspect had possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. So we're still working on that right now. But I can tell you that there is a resolution to this situation. But I want to go back to one of the things I said earlier. We are blessed by God that nobody, law enforcement was hurt, no citizens were hurt, none of our canines were hurt. The other one too is we're blessed by God to be here in Tampa Bay. To be here with these outstanding women and men in law enforcement and public safety, our fire rescue out there, everybody. It's a sad day when these things happen, but at the same time is that we come together. And I get these criminals now, they seem like they're being more violent towards law enforcement because they see what goes on across the country where laws aren't enforced. Law enforcement can't do their job because there's politicians out there that are holding them back. It's not going to happen in Tampa Bay. It's not going to happen here in the state of Florida. We will enforce the law. And so there's a message back out there to criminals. If you fire upon law enforcement, if you fire your guns upon our good citizens out there and our citizens that are just trying to live their lives, we will do everything possible to apprehend you. In this situation, it looks like a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but if you shoot at us, we will fire back at you. That's what we're trained to do. We will make sure at all costs that our community will be safe. And that's what all the women and men up here that we will defend is the fact that we will not be like other areas of the country where criminals run those neighborhoods. In our community, in our state, we're going to make sure law enforcement and the good citizens still run our communities. So with that being said, I want to bring up Mark Rutnell, the special agent in charge of FTOE. Thank you, Sheriff. Sheriff said Mark Rutnell with FTOE here in Tampa. Pursuant to a mutual aid agreement that we have with the Marshall service, we are here conducting a criminal investigation into the use of force, deadly force, by a member of the Tampa Police Department and the Pasco Sheriff's Office. I can echo the Sheriff's comments that today was a classic example of great restraint and patience. I live in this community, so I was very proud to watch the collaborative effort of all the agencies that are here today. The partnerships are immense, well, old machine, but again, I go back to the restraint and the patience that was showed by all the agencies here today to hopefully end a peaceful resolution. Unfortunately, this individual chose this path. These officers were doing their job this morning, and he fired upon them, and they fired back. And that's why we're here today to conduct that investigation. It's a long process with a lot of work to do today, but we'll get it done and we'll present that to the State Attorney's Office for review. Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff. Please call the Chief of Police for Tampa. The Tampa Police Department plays a significant role in the U.S. Marshall's Task Force. And as the Sheriff alluded to before, the U.S. Marshall's Task Force goes after the most heinous criminals. They are the best of the best, the most highly trained, that go after our worst of the worst. And in this case, we had an outcome where the citizens and the officers were okay. Obviously, that's our main concern. And the officers, thank God, they were shot at. We had our officers that were shot at and one of my officers were turned fire. And thank God, they were not hit. In this situation, we owe that extra training to the U.S. Marshall's for their extra training that they provide for our officers to do this. The community and our Task Force and all of the agencies that are out here at the Tampa Bay area, like the Sheriff alluded to before, has an excellent working relationship with all the other criminal justice stakeholders and the community members themselves. And that's why we're at this resolution that we're at today. So thank you. Anything, any questions? Sheriff Gino specifically, was it one of the robots or a law enforcement member who found him in that room that you mentioned? Yeah, this is a separate investigation. We had numerous different robots that were going in there, members that were going in there, but go back to it. You know, we're in a command bus. We're listening to what's going on. We're making some decisions that are happening out there because, you know, the frontline women and men, they need to be able to make those decisions. And so, you know, we're going through our lines. What do we do? How do we do this? And one of the things that came up was about, you know, our canines are trained or swat some tactical canines and we're going to send the dogs and we're like, no, hold on. Let's get those robots in first because we all agree. We do not want to put those dogs in harm's way. This guy's already shot at law enforcement. He shot at people. We don't want to harm a dog either. And so, you know, sending their robots in, sending everything in. So I'm not sure if we saw a mirror that they were able to get into that room or was it one of the robots that got in. But this is where I go back to, you know, public safety isn't cheap. We deal with protecting lives. And so any tool possible, we can have resolutions like we have now where 10, 15 years ago, that swat team would have been kicking indoors going through. And now we, you know, the professionalism has immense right now. You know, it's been always great. But what we can do with technology, it gets even better and we can make things safer. But at the same time is, you know, they cost money. But no matter how much hardware we have, how much software we have, it always comes down to the human heart and the human head. And those are the things that came together to say, hey, let's get in there and make sure everybody's going to be safe. And like it was looted before by especially in charge of Brunel, he chose his own fate. He had hours to come out on his own. He had hours to make a decision to say, Hey, you know what, I did something stupid. But let me end this peacefully. He chose his own fate. Any general thoughts on what he said in the conversations that he did have over the phone? I don't know. Whether you said that house of negotiations or what he said to other people that were on the phone, but so sorry. Yeah, so that I don't want to get it's not a Pasco case. It's one of jurisdictions and with the outside county. So they were still going through some things now. So I don't want it. I don't want to interfere with their investigation. It's not a Pasco Sheriff's Office investigation, but we were out there to assist with the marshals task force to go out there to apprehend this person to bring him in for questioning. It was a jurisdiction in Tampa Bay. A couple of lab booms coming from the house and we saw the battering ram. And yeah, so if you heard a boom, that's the flashbangs. We percussion banks trying to get movement trying to get him to, you know, so we know, you know, there's some times he won't talk to us for a little bit. So we just want to make sure he's alive. There's some points where he got up. You know, our people knew he was walking around. So we knew, you know, he was still alive at that point. You know, with the bear cat, you know, we were trying to go through some windows. We had to get through some windows to make sure that we can get the tear gas in there. Unfortunately, it probably wasn't the best structure to begin with. Structurally sound building. So you take a window and things start falling. The part with fire rescue, and I give Chief Perez credit, this is probably this is probably the first operation we had because the evolution of our partnership together with Pasco Fire Rescue, the medical side, the tactical side, they were out there for several reasons. One is they've got forbid somebody got shot on our side. We were able to render eight quickly. If the suspect came out and he was wounded, they were able to render eight quickly. The other side of it is if, you know, you don't know what this guy's doing inside. You don't know if he's going to start, if he has gasoline, he's going to start a fire. They were there to make sure that they can turn that fire off, you know, put water on it, put foam on it, do something like that. So that's the whole part of slow methodical, but having the right pieces in the right place. As I said, there's times we have to go in hastily and take care of a situation. There's other times like today where we can just methodically go through it. But it was not the best structurally sound building to begin with. And so we have to make sure that as we go through it, it was safe. Right now with fire rescues going out there for and we appreciate Chief President team is making sure that that building does not collapse on forensics as they're going into that situation now. Yes ma'am. Okay. It goes back to the point that this guy was shooting rounds out the window at anything that moved. And so it wasn't like he shot us at one point and then it kind of ended. This guy was continuously shooting at us for a long period of time. And so that's why we have to go out there to get those neighbors to say get out of that situation. It's not safe. And so I, you know, 100% those homes out there, you don't know what one round goes. You don't know who's walking their dog. What kid could be standing on a school bus? You don't know those things. And that's why all these situations are extremely scary for our citizens out there. For ours, you know, and as I said, we train all of us, all our organizations, we train for these bad days all the time. Because think about it, it was a violation, VOP for grand theft. You know, yes, he was a suspect in a homicide investigation. But when you hear the initial charges, you know, people just knock on their doors and there's nothing routine. But at the same time as, Hey, just come out, talk to us. I can imagine the task force members do this all day long. They go pick up people all day long. No, the one time they fire on us, this is why we have to spend hours and hours on training for that one time when that person does fire upon us that they could respond, you know, professionally and the excellent way they did today. We talked to several neighbors that were displaced during this year. How many people were in this area? I apologize. I don't know exactly how many. Yes, sir. We were at this address last month and the server warned on this man. Is this the first time you tried to serve another one on him since that time? I don't know when was the last time I know we were out there previously. I'm not sure between that time and this time if this is the first time we make an interaction with them. But you know what, who knows what you never know what's in his mind. And now we never will as to what he thought we were going for today. Maybe he was the prime suspect in a homicide and he didn't now he thought the walls were closing in on him. Maybe there was other crimes that he was involved in that he didn't know and he thought we knew. So you don't know how people react. And a month is a long time in law enforcement. You don't know what crimes or things people may have done in a month. But when he came to that door this morning, yeah, and he probably thought the end is coming. And unfortunately, he put the pregnant girlfriend at risk. He put his neighbors at risk and put law enforcement at risk and he ended it on his choice, not ours. All right. Appreciate it. Bye. Thank you.