home.

"My wife was sleeping, and she heard a bunch of gunshots and then she said they were followed by even more," he said. "She called me so I rushed home immediately."

Baker's wife, Lola, and their one-year-old daughter, Ariana, were very unnerved by what they heard.

"One of the main reasons why I moved here was because there were so many police officers and firemen in this neighborhood, and it's crazy to think something like that could happen right down the street," Baker said.

Tallahassee police officers and the Leon County Sheriff's deputies continue to investigate the scene. The shooter was shot and killed during the incident.

Emergency responders first went to the neighborhood on Caracus Court after reports of a house fire. Investigators are now focusing their attention on a home10 a.m. deputies responded to a house fire on Caracus Court in the Plantation Woods neighborhood of northwest Tallahassee.

The first deputy to respond was killed.

"He was ambushed and he was shot and he was killed," McQuaig said.

The gunman then took the deputy's firearm and walked down the street shooting the weapon. He shot and wounded another LCSO deputy in the process.

Deputies then shot and killed the man.

LCSO and TPD crime scene units are on scene gathering evidence.

"There are a lot of components at work right now," McQuiag said. "This scene is still active. It is still developing.

LCSO will give a full update at 7 p.m.

Update: Noon

A Leon County deputy was killed this morning by a gunman, who also was killed, in the Plantation Woods neighborhood of Tallahassee this