Fla. officer earns Medal of Valor for shooting gunman

By: Katie Kustura, The News-Journal

DELAND, Fla. — A police officer who intervened in a shootout between an attempted-murder suspect and Volusia County deputies was awarded his department’s Medal of Valor.

During Monday night’s City Commission meeting, DeLand police Chief Jason Umberger said Cpl. Tony Tagle met each and every criteria that an officer must demonstrate to earn the medal when Tagle responded to a shooting in November.

 

“No law enforcement officer goes to work wanting to use deadly force in the commission of their duty, but every law enforcement officer must be prepared if, and when, that time comes,” Umberger said, adding that Tagle was prepared on Nov. 19, 2018. “I believe his actions saved the lives of fellow law enforcement officers, civilians who happened to find themselves in that area at that particular day and time and his own life.”

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