Death by Cop 2021-2025
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Name Not Disclosed
Gender : Male
Age :
Race : Unknown
Date : 11/15/2021
Location : 24030 Northeast 140th Avenue
City : Fort McCoy
County : Marion
State : Florida
Agency : Marion County Sheriff's Office
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during shots fired response
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Deputies received a call around 7:40 p.m. concerning shots fired at 24030 Northeast 140th Avenue in Fort McCoy, Florida. Three deputies arrived and discovered a man dead in the driveway. A second man, armed with a shotgun, approached them. Deputies ordered the man to put down the weapon, but they said he did not comply and instead tried to engage them, prompting the deputies to open fire, killing him. James Levitz, 83, and Micah Brillhart, 33, were the two men killed, but police withheld information regarding which individual was killed by police.
