Karl Etters

Democrat staff writer

Final update 6:25 p.m.

In a light rain amid wafting smoke from a house fire in northwest Tallahassee on Saturday, emergency responders tried to piece together the events that led to the shooting death of a Leon County Sheriff's Office deputy.

LCSO officials say the deputy was ambushed and killed by a gunman while responding to the fire at 3722 Caracus Court in the Plantation Woods neighborhood around 10:15 a.m. A second deputy was shot and injured before the man was shot and killed by Tallahassee Police Department officers who provided assistance.

The name of the slain deputy was not released Saturday. More details about the shooter and the incident are expected at a press conference at noon Sunday.

The fallen deputy's name was widely publicized on social mediafollowing the shooting, but at the request of LCSO the Tallahassee Democrat is not reporting the name until it is officially released.

LCSO spokesman Lt. James McQuaig said after the gunman killed the first deputy on the scene, he took the deputy's firearm and walked down the residential street shooting. He shot and wounded another LCSO deputy in the process. As more first responders began to arrive, TPD officers engaged the man, shooting and killing him.

McQuaig said the incident is still under investigation. At least nine emergency response agencies were at the scene.

"There are a lot of components at work right now," McQuaig said. "This thing is still active and still developing. We are in the very early stages of this investigation."

It is not known if anyone was home