Multiple witnesses

Twelve witnesses, including deputies, firefighters, family members and neighbors, were listed in reports. Some claimed they saw the shooting but were actually too far away to see into the dark yard, FDLE said.

Woodard’s boyfriend Brown watched what happened from a rear window of thehome. He told a sheriff’s detective in a sworn, recorded statement that Frazier didn’t lunge at the deputies, thathehada knife in one hand and a spoon in the otherandthatwhenthe deputies were about three feet away, Brown heard four or five shots.

The spoon was never found. Deborah Frazier said it wasn’t true that her brother held the knife, or rose to confront deputies and that by the time they arrived, he’d calmed down.

“Corey told me he didn’t tell the cops Greg had the knife in his hand,” she said. “[Greg] was sitting down, sitting there eating dinner.”

Paramedics found Frazier’s injuries were “incompatible with life” and declared him dead. One of the deputies was emotionally distraught and paramedics took him to a rescue truck, reports said.

The Broward County Medical Examiner found Frazier died from six gunshotwoundsthatwereconsistent with being shot while hewas in the process of standing up and leaning forward. The death was ruled a homicide, FDLE said.

Frazier was buried in a cemetery in Pompano Beach, his sister said.