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Florida Man Swims in Lake Full of Alligators, Allegedly Attempts to Assault Police Officers with Garden Shears, Is Fatally Shot
The incident took place on Memorial Day and has been linked to alleged drug use, according to police
By Michael Nied
A 42-year-old man in Florida was fatally shot after surviving a swim through a lake full of alligators and allegedly attempting to assault police officers who responded to the scene.On Monday, May 26, Timothy Schulz died after members of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office opened fire on him, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a press briefing that was live-streamed on Facebook.
Judd said that his officers were first alerted about Schulz that day when they received a call about him around 5:56 a.m. At the time, the 911 caller described him as being “bizarre” and “shaking” while at a local racetrack.
Responding officers were unable to find him when they arrived at the track approximately three minutes after the call came in. Judd said that a search for Schulz went on for around half an hour before it was called off.
A second call about Schulz came in around 7:43 a.m. In it, a witness described him as “this white guy,” noting that he was in a lake with “a lot of alligators.”
Judd said that the caller was concerned that Schulz was “drunk or high or something.”
Schulz reportedly refused a life preserver, which a witness offered him. Another reportedly ran away from the lake after Schulz “growled” at them.
“Our deputies immediately arrived,” Judd said, noting that Schulz was able to get out of the lake and did appear to have sustained an injury to his arm. “As they were arriving, he was walking from the lake between the houses, and he had a set of garden shears with him.”
The deputies allegedly witnessed Schulz attempting to break into a car by throwing a brick at the window. At that time, they attempted to arrest him using non-lethal measures.
However, their attempts were unsuccessful, and he “immediately charged the deputies, holding the shears,” Judd alleged, recalling a conversation with a witness.
Schulz was hit with a taser but continued to approach the police. Once he tried to reach into the police car in an apparent attempt to steal one of their firearms, the police opened fire.
Judd said that he was “shot multiple times,” adding, “As a result, Timothy is deceased.”
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Garden implement to a gun fight, and fortunately no LEOs or alligators were harmed in the incident.
Raleigh home invasion escalates into shootout; suspect remains at large
Raleigh Police Department is investigating a reported home invasion that escalated into a shootout Monday morning.
The incident happened around 4:50 a.m. in the 1400 block of Gorman Street.
According to authorities, the suspect entered the apartment and fired several shots, prompting the resident to return fire. No injuries were reported.
RPD have identified the suspect, who remains at large.
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Fuckin’ gators didn’t wanna get wotevver he got….
And I don’t blame ’em.
I wouldn’t want that neither…
Crazy ass motherfucker.
Too much of the wrong drugs/not enough of the right drugs. Unless a tox screen is done, the world may never know (or even care).
And yes, this “garden shears to a gun fight” is going into the 3″ three ring loose leaf binder of T2NB2AGF.
And THAT’S why they call it…dope! Prime candidate for a twofer by being placed on the SPoTW Thread in addition to a FGS. Garden shears AND a brick to a gunfight? Figured you’d like this one. Always good to be able to add to the three (3) ring Binder of T2NB2AGF. One does have to wonder if the ‘gator remarks as he takes a bite out of a hooman “…tastes like chicken.”
Amazing how laying down some grazing fire will cause a nefarious individual remember pressing business elsewhere. Range time, Citizen…range time.
Resist tyranny with every weapon you have, be it a high velocity ping, ping, ping, or one with an Earth Shattering KA-BOOM! The Patriots @ Naw’lins fired their cannons til the barrels melted down, then they grabbed an alligator and they fought another round. The Ladies of LaGrange GA formed a Company of “Nancy Harts” to stand fast against Federal Cavalry. The Ladies of Jackson GA stood against ‘Cump’s hordes with “garden implements” (rakes, hoes, ect) thus saving their food stuffs and homes. History is replete with other examples. As a last resort…Head butt the hangman! “If we are to die today, then let us die as men!”
I like that attitude, “Head butt the hangman!”
What’s he gonna do? Gonna die anyway.
Can always take a head dive off the platform.
YAAAAHOOOO!!!
Having friends and family that are/were users, including my best friend who didn’t have a “come to Jesus” moment, but rather a “I am Jesus” phase before getting cleaned up by spending (another) year in prison, I consider OD and batshit crazy “victims” to be the result of the following:
Too much stuff
Doing stuff for too long
Some really good stuff
Some really bad stuff
I’ve never done anything besides alcohol (now that’s over six months in the past), but I’ve never seen or heard of a casual coke or even heroin user going off the deep end. It’s when they do more than they’re used to, turn a once-a-month habit into a month-long binge, or get something too pure or laced with something else that they just go to permasleep or become a god amongst men until they get locked up or, in many cases, for the rest of their lives.
As for the gators, I don’t want to swim with them. I guess they don’t care for me down here either, because all I ever see are roadkill. In Georgia, I had a gator friend who I’d pass every day driving through the training area after work, and the pond at Camp Oliver were full of them.
I need to work on my mullet. Right, Phideaux? Good boy!
Y’all may get a kick out of this one:
https://www.facebook.com/HuntsvilleTXPolice
Two of the escapees from New Orleans were caught in a town notorious/famous for its prison system.
Here’s KHOU on the topic:
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/track-escaped-louisiana-inmates-walker-county/285-0b28a9b8-7a05-4b11-8d45-8ad225c47e18
An KRPC’s item:
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/05/27/dramatic-bodycam-video-captures-arrest-of-new-orleans-prison-escapees/
They’re lucky to not have been Jasper! Good folks, either way.
Bet they won’t have flushing toilets when they get back to NOLA.
I know one of the LEOs in the video of the capture.
Ex-Army Ranger with multiple deployments to the sandboxes, son of one of my good friends, and now agency sniper.
Those fools did not want to give him any reason to shoot, it, maim, or mangle them.
The other LEOs were, likewise, not playing. One wrong move and they’d’a been quite capable of putting them out of our misery.
The tall guy on the right side in one of those photos is not to be trifled with
It would be less than wise to trifle with any of those guys.
The Houston Police Officers’ Union even issued a statement of incredulity at the perps choice of heading to Prison City to run away from prison.
Despite being offered delightful food, routinely, they don’t look real soft or slow.
Their looks do not deceive you.
The last thing schultz said before he bought the farm was,
I know nothing.
Plus military school here… kinda got over that one.
