Deputies responded to three domestic-related calls Thursday at a home in Mims, before a man led them on a chase that ended in a crash, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said during a news conference.
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Ivey said the sheriff’s office received the calls from a woman at a home in a rural area of Brevard County, beginning at 11:17 p.m. Wednesday and ending at 4:43 a.m. Thursday.
“She was in great fear for her safety,” Ivey said.
In each call, the woman said she was afraid that an ex-boyfriend was at her home, Ivey said.
"The cops just left here not even a half an hour ago. I'm scared to death," the woman said in a 911 call.
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In the first two responses to the home, deputies said they did not find anyone.
However, when the woman made the third call, she was whispering and told the communications officer that her ex-boyfriend was banging on the window, Ivey said.
“Every indication was that this was a very serious domestic-related incident that had been taking place for some time,” Ivey said.
When deputies responded, they found a man in a car, Ivey said.
Deputies said they ordered the man several times to get out of the car at the woman's home, but he would not. The man then accelerated the car toward a deputy who fired one round, hitting the man, Ivey said.
Deputies performed a PIT maneuver, which caused the car to crash into a ditch, deputies said.
The man was taken to a hospital suffering a gunshot wound, Ivey said. He is in critical condition.
“Our job is to get bad people off the streets and put him in jail. This individual certainly demonstrated, not only his actions toward us, but certainly causing great grief and concern from the victim in this case," Ivey said.
Deputies said the woman had a temporary injunction for protection against the man, but it was dismissed after a hearing in February.
The deputy who shot the man is on routine administrative leave pending the investigation.
The investigation is ongoing.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office assisted BCSO.
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