{"id":3424,"date":"2024-06-11T04:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2024-06-11T04:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T04:40:24","slug":"decisive-video-of-florida-deputy-taking-down-hostage-taking-bank-robber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"DECISIVE: Video of Florida Deputy Taking Down Hostage-Taking Bank Robber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow.jpg\" data-caption=\"The hostage taker Sterling Alavache peers over a computer monitor just before police turned his lights off.  Screen capture by Boch via Lee County, FL Sheriff.\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lee-County-FL-arrow.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lee County FL arrow\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hostage taker Sterling Alavache peers over a computer monitor just before police turned his lights off. Screen capture by Boch via Lee County, FL Sheriff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTalk to me. Let me know what\u2019s going through your head right now.\u201d\u00a0 Those words were spoken by a police hostage negotiator as a sharpshooter lined up to take a shot. Their goal? To neutralize a bank robber turned hostage taker in Lee County, Florida. In fact, those words must have marked the negotiator\u2019s signal to take the shot as Sterling Alavache held a knife to a woman\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n<p>The bad guy tried to use a computer monitor to hide from police. He soon learned the difference between cover and concealment as moments later, the suppressed .308 barked softly. The round ended the threat, leaving blood and tissue adorning the back wall.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling collapsed like a sack of \u2018taters and the hostages scurried for cover as cops deployed flash bangs in case the shot didn\u2019t work as intended.<\/p>\n<p>However the shot was near-perfect. Alavache never heard or saw the flashbangs.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully the hostages were largely uninjured, save the hearing loss from the flash bangs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: Harrowing video shows moment sniper shoots through computer monitor and in between 2 hostages, taking out hostage-taker at Florida bank <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jt2anv3fo0\">pic.twitter.com\/jt2anv3fo0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1799912615176786151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/2024\/06\/08\/a-breakdown-of-the-final-moments-during-the-attempted-bank-of-america-heist\/\">WINK has more<\/a>, including the name of the police lieutenant who took the shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>On Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office released a graphic new video from an attempted bank robbery turned deadly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A SWAT sniper shot and killed the suspect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/tag\/sterling-alavache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sterling Alavache<\/a>, while he held two hostages at knifepoint.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>This happened<a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/2024\/02\/06\/bell-tower-shops-critical-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0back in February<\/a>\u00a0at the Bank of America at Bell Tower. A warning: some of the video is graphic, and viewer discretion is advised.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Just before taking his shot, The sniper now identified as Lieutenant Paul Nader rested his gun on the shoulder of one of his teammates, but blocking Lieutenant Nader\u2019s shot of Alavache was a computer monitor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The<a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/tag\/lee-county-sheriffs-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0Lee County Sheriffs Office<\/a>\u00a0has also released another angle of the moment lieutenant Nader fired the shot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The moment right after the shot, the two hostages can be seen running for cover, the suspect on the floor and a gaping hole in the computer monitor seen just moments ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Second later, The SWAT team swarms inside, jumping the desk and releasing a flash bang.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The hostages now free, and Alavache, dead on the floor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Lieutenant Nader was honored for his bravery on June 5 with both the Deputy of the Quarter award and the Meritorious Service award. One of the hostages was there to thank him personally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Outstanding shot, lieutenant. Shooting off someone\u2019s shoulder isn\u2019t easy, especially when no-shoot targets are only inches away from the intended freedom pill recipient.\u00a0 Particularly when the bad guy keeps moving and using a computer monitor to obstruct the line-of-sight view.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/decisive-video-of-florida-deputy-taking-down-hostage-taking-bank-robber\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hostage taker Sterling Alavache peers over a computer monitor just before police turned his lights off. Screen capture by Boch via Lee County, FL Sheriff. Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 \u201cTalk to me. Let me know what\u2019s going through your head right now.\u201d\u00a0 Those words were spoken by a police hostage negotiator as a sharpshooter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}