Overview
- Deputies responded around 2:04 p.m. on Nov. 2 to a Brandon home after a 911 call reported that 27-year-old Mario Camacho was armed with a knife and assaulting family members.
- Body-worn video shows deputies breaching a barricaded bedroom where Camacho, wearing a motorcycle helmet and ballistic vests, held his 7-year-old brother in a chokehold at knifepoint.
- After repeated commands to release the child and drop the knife, Deputy Antonio (Anthony) Gonzalez, 25, fired one shot, enabling deputies to pull the boy to safety.
- Camacho was transported to Brandon Regional Hospital and was pronounced dead at approximately 2:47 p.m.; the child was uninjured but traumatized and is receiving victim assistance.
- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and HCSO Internal Affairs have opened investigations, the bodycam footage has been released, and the deputy is on paid administrative leave per policy; officials noted Camacho’s prior domestic-violence contacts and Baker Act history.