One killed, one wounded in police-involved shootings

South Florida cops and deputies fired their weapons in three separate incidents Wednesday afternoon when, in all, two men were killed, one officer was wounded and another man was hospitalized, authorities said.

After threatening suicide, 71-year-old Robert Page engaged in a standoff of about 90 minutes with a Coral Springs SWAT team. At least two officers fired and killed him when he came out of his house carrying a shotgun, said Keyla Concepcion, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office, which will handle the investigation.

“Whatever moves he made were threatening to the officers,” Concepcion said.

Police had been at the home the night before she shooting responding to a reported disturbance, Concepcion said. The situation was resolved without incident.

Police returned to the home in the 11200 block of 11th Court about 1 p.m. Wednesday. The shooting happened about 90 minutes later, Concepcion said.

Page’s neighbor across the street, Shermika Lyons, said she thought she heard a gunshot about 2:45 p.m. but convinced herself that it must have been something else.

Her suspicion was confirmed a little later, she said, when she looked outside and saw crime-scene tape draped around her neighbor’s home, police cars lining the street and what looked like soldiers huddled together across from Page’s house.

“And that’s when I knew I did hear a gunshot,” Lyons said. “Absolutely that must have been what it was.”

Lyons said she did not know her neighbor other than to exchange waves when he was in his driveway or yard.

Meanwhile, in Lauderdale Lakes a Broward Sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a man late Wednesday afternoon, the agency said.

Neither the wounded man who was shot around 5 p.m. nor the deputy was identified by the sheriff ’s office. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue took to the wounded man to a Fort Lauderdale hospital.

The gunfire happened at 3610 NW 21st St., officials said. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel was expected to speak there later in the evening.

Earlier in the day and further south, a Miami-Dade County officer exchanged gunfire with a suspected shoplifter at a Walmart store. Officer Manuel Gonzalez, 31, was shot multiple times and survived; David Facen, 54, of Miami, did not.