POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A deadly deputy-involved shooting is under investigation in Polk County.

Sheriff Grady Judd gave preliminary information to the media Monday afternoon, detailing how the man who died allegedly tried to attack his deputies - after an alligator may have attacked him.

Judd said the first call about the man, who he identified as Timothy Patrick Schulz, 42, came from the RaceTrac on Highway 37 in south Lakeland. He said the caller reported that Schulz was “acting bizarre.”

He was gone when deputies arrived. But they got another call about him swimming in a nearby lake.

Judd said there were a lot of alligators in the lake with him, and that one witness said they took a life vest out to him but he wouldn’t take it. He also allegedly growled at another person who tried to h

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