Deputies fatally shoot armed suspect during Davie arrest attempt
Broward deputies shot an armed suspect at a Davie Wawa after he ran toward a McDonald’s lot and refused to drop a gun, drawing seven officers into a crowded commercial strip.
Broward Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot an armed suspect near the 6300 block of Stirling Road in Davie after he ran from a Wawa gas station toward a McDonald’s parking lot and refused commands to drop his weapon.
The confrontation unfolded Monday evening, June 29, 2026, during an arrest attempt on an active warrant for fleeing and eluding. Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said deputies had been following the man for a couple of weeks and had tied him through DNA samples to multiple other crimes, signaling that the stop was the end of a longer investigation rather than a spontaneous confrontation.
Tony said the suspect had a gun and would not drop it when ordered. The movement from the Wawa lot into the nearby McDonald’s parking area put the encounter into one of the most exposed kinds of settings for a police shooting: a commercial corridor where gas pumps, drive-thru traffic and parking spaces leave little separation between law-enforcement action and the public.
Six Broward Sheriff’s deputies and one Plantation police officer were involved in the scene. The presence of multiple officers suggests the operation had already escalated beyond a routine warrant pickup, with deputies trying to contain a suspect who was actively fleeing and armed in a public space.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is handling the shooting, as is standard in Florida officer-involved deaths. FDLE does not routinely comment on active investigations or release names while a case is open. Inside the sheriff’s office, the Use of Force Review Board is part of the agency’s accountability process for force incidents, and the shooting is likely to be examined through that structure as well as by state investigators.
The case also puts attention on how Broward law enforcement carries out warrant-based operations in public places. When an arrest target is located at a gas station on Stirling Road, the timing and location can make the difference between a controlled detention and a fast-moving threat to officers and bystanders alike. Here, the encounter ended in gunfire within moments of the suspect’s flight, leaving investigators to sort out the warrant, the weapon and the decisions that turned a surveillance operation into a fatal shooting.
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