FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Port St. Lucie murder suspect was shot and killed by police Tuesday morning in Fort Lauderdale.
Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Patrick Lynn said his officers received information that a man wanted on suspicion of murder in Port St. Lucie was driving a silver pickup truck in the city.
A brief pursuit ensued before the suspect stopped and engaged officers, Lynn said.
"Our officers took the action that they felt was necessary to defend themselves," Lynn told reporters at a news conference.
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The suspect was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Port St. Lucie police identified the suspect as Manuel Sanabria, who was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of another man Monday night.
Lynn wouldn't say how the suspect "engaged" the officers, but he said several officers opened fire.
Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman Casey Liening later said Sanabria got out of his truck holding a piece of a gun and pointed it at officers, "taking a shooting stance," prompting officers to shoot.
Port St. Lucie police Sgt. John Dellacroce said Sanabria, 38, fled in a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck after Monday night's shooting outside a home on Northwest Duke Circle.
Aerial video from NBC affiliate WTVJ showed a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck surrounded by police tape.
Joseph Pruit said he was home Tuesday morning when he heard the gunshots.
"I was just laying on the couch watching cartoons," he said.
Pruit said he heard the loud sounds and dropped to the ground until the shooting stopped.
"And then I peeped out the window to see what the hell was going on," he said.
What Pruit and the rest of his Fort Lauderdale community eventually got to see was yellow police tape and police cars blocking off the scene. Bullet casings were scattered about near the intersection of Northwest Seventh Street and Northwest 14th Way.
"Waking up early in the morning with a shootout, that's bad," Pruit said.
During a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Port St. Lucie Police Chief John Bolduc said the victim in Monday night's shooting drove to Sanabria's home to visit his wife and was confronted by Sanabria.
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"He was shot multiple times," Bolduc said. "There were 34 shell casings at the scene. It's kind of difficult to tell exactly how many times he was actually struck."
Bolduc said Sanabria had moved to Port St. Lucie from Broward County and still had friends and family there.
Although the relationship between Sanabria's wife and the victim wasn't immediately known, Bolduc said it appears "this confrontation was motivated by the husband's disapproval of that relationship."
Bolduc categorized the shooting as a targeted attack.
"I would say that it was a very deliberate act to fire a gun that many times," Bolduc said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the police-involved shooting. Liening said the officers who opened fire have been placed on administrative leave, per department policy, pending the outcome of the investigation.