Man says family had been searching for mother fatally shot by deputy in Broward

Cleandrew Oliver said helium and his household successful Tennessee and Louisiana had been searching for his parent erstwhile they learned that a Broward County Sheriff’s Office lawman had fatally changeable her on Monday in Deerfield Beach.

Oliver said his mother, Debra Lobbins, had vanished much than a decennary ago. BSO reported that a lawman fatally changeable her astatine astir 7 p.m., extracurricular of the Walgreens astatine 1005 South Federal Highway.

“For the longest, we had been keeping anticipation that she has been alive,” Oliver said.

Oliver said Lobbins, 60, had a past of intelligence illness. Deputies said she was stateless erstwhile witnesses called 911 to study she was swinging 2 knives around.

“When my ma was successful her close mind, she was a large mom,” Oliver said.

BSO reported Lobbins “moved toward” a lawman “while swinging” a weapon aggressively contempt his orders to driblet it, truthful helium pulled retired his work weapon and fired.

Lobbins, who was equipped with 2 18-inch knives, died, according to BSO deputies. Oliver said determination should beryllium different mode for deputies to respond to a person’s intelligence wellness crisis.

“If you popular up arsenic an serviceman and you got connected a azygous and you are yelling, ‘Drop the knife!’ That’s not going to marque a idiosyncratic with intelligence wellness drawback backmost into reality,” Oliver said.

BSO has a situation involution grooming squad and a co-responder program.

“Something has to change,” Oliver said, adding that helium had questions for the lawman who fatally changeable his mother, “ Why couldn’t you clasp her determination until you were capable to get idiosyncratic much nonrecreational to the scene?

“I don’t recognize it ... You could person tased her.”

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is conducting a regular probe into the shooting.

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