Donna Dale, 47, was shot and killed by a Nassau County Sheriff's Office deputy during a suicidal call in Hilliard. She had put a rifle to her mouth.
She also had gone outside on the property where there are several trees and thick bushes and palmettos to hide, and it was very dark, the sheriff said. Deputies could hear her moving but couldn't pinpoint her location. So one of the deputies retrieved night vision goggles and found her in some palmetto bushes near the driveway.
The Sheriff's Office also had been called to the same home about a month ago for another domestic incident where she stated to family she wanted to die. When a deputy responded, she grabbed a pair of scissors and raised them in an aggressive manner yelling at her father. A deputy had to incapacitate her with a Taser. Leeper said she had to be institutionalized in a mental health facility under the state's Baker Act.
"It's hard to say what's going through people's minds when you respond to situations like this," he said."Deputies have to protect themselves, and that's what they were doing. She put them in that position. What can be done, I don't know, but when we're called, we respond to try to handle the situation the best we can. If there's time to get other resources involved, we would do that, but this was not that situation.
by a deputy. A family member had called the Sheriff’s Office saying Adam S. Moser was threatening to kill himself at the home on Diamond Street in Yulee.
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