A sheriff’s deputy who had served 25 years with Florida’s Indian River County Sheriff’s Office was shot and killed Friday morning while serving an eviction notice.

Forty-seven-year-old deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow was killed as she attempted to serve the notice and a second deputy was shot in shoulder, receiving what is not believed to be a life-threatening injury.

FOX 9 reported a third deputy was able to return fire and the suspect was shot and hospitalized in critical condition.

FOX News noted that Sweeting-Mashkow, the other deputies, and a locksmith arrived at a home in a gated community in Vero Beach, where a mother was evicting her son, Michael Halberstam.

Once the deputies were in the home’s entryway, Halberstam allegedly grabbed a gun and opened fire.

The locksmith w

See Full Page