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Fla. SWAT medic shot during standoff

Man barricaded himself inside business, fired on police and then set the building on fire; injured medic in ‘good condition’

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WINTER HAVEN, Fla.— A Polk County SWAT medic was shot during a standoff with a suspect in Winter Haven.

Deputies say the SWAT team is on scene at Dundee Road, near Carl Floyd Road, where a suicidal subject barricaded himself in a building. Sheriff Grady Judd believes the suspect, Michael Phillips, 39, is dead, but he has not been seen yet.

“It was a war zone,” Judd said.

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