LAKELAND, Fla. - A 61-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday morning by two police officers who say he shot at them as he sat in a vehicle parked in a construction zone on I-4 in Lakeland.It happened around 2:15 a.m.
near exit 31 at Kathleen Road.According to the Lakeland Police Department, a state agency that monitors traffic cameras called police because they saw a suspicious vehicle parked in a construction zone on the interstate.Officers responding to the scene say they saw a man sitting in a vehicle and approached him.
The officers say they tapped on the window to speak with the driver and at some point, the man got a handgun and fired it at them.The officers returned fire, killing the driver.