'I've been hit,' Potters shouts as Wilder starts hopping on one foot, appearing to have been shot too. Potters is then seen running away from the gunman as Wilder takes cover behind the car and continues shooting. Ivey suggested Wilder was 'avoiding arrest as he knew he was facing several minimum mandatory prison sentences in his pending cases'. Wilder was out on bond for two felony drug charges and two active felony warrants when the shooting happened. 'He (Potters) is immediately and without warning ambushed with a small stock AR-15-styled rifle that is pointed and fired directly at him,' Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in the video. He was out on bond for two felony drug charges and two active felony warrants when the shooting happened. Paris Wilder (pictured) was a career criminal with 40 previous arrests. The investigation is ongoing and both deputies have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is customary in all deputy-involved shootings.Wilder was a career criminal with 40 previous arrests and the Sheriff's Office said he was out on bond avoiding another arrest when the shooting took place.He then used the butt of the gun to beat Potters, prompting Thoman to use fatal force to 'eliminate the threat'.The officers were doing a routine traffic stop when Wilder jumped out of the car 'with a small stock AR-15-styled rifle' and started shooting.

Shooter Paris Wilder, 38, was left dead and Potters was severely injured.Dashcam footage shows the moment Brevard County deputies Brian Potters and Tyler Thoman were ambushed by a gunman, prompting a shootout.He shows the video in its entirety and then afterwards, breaks it down to explain what is happening and why the deputies complete the actions that they do.Shocking moment Florida deputy gets shot and beaten with butt of AR-15-style rifle by passenger who burst out of car during traffic stop before cop's partner saves his life by killing career criminal in shootout 'As you will see in the video that I am about to show, the suspect was the initial aggressor as he concealed his weapon until exiting the vehicle and immediately firing upon our deputies with a pistol-grip style rifle in an attempt to take their lives and avoid arrest,' Sheriff Ivey said before showing the video, which he also warned is extremely violent and graphic. The entire traffic stop was captured on two separate dash cameras. MORE NEWS: Car crashes into Florida fire station narrowly missing lieutenant's bed 'But for now, I’m just extremely thankful that our deputies are safe and that the suspect is no longer on this planet, where he could put someone else’s life in peril,' Sheriff Ivey added. 'Even worse and more disgusting, is that this career criminal - whose name doesn’t even deserve mentioning - was actually out on bond with active warrants for additional felony drug trafficking cases, where he could attempt to kill our deputies when he should have been safely locked behind bars, where he couldn’t victimize another citizen or innocent bystander,' he explained while stating that he wants answers for why a man with the record he has was allowed out on bond. Sheriff Ivey said that the man also had prior convictions for robbery with a firearm, failing to register as a career offender, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, resisting arrest with violence, possession of controlled substances, and various probation violations.

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