EX-DEPUTY ‘BELLIGERENT’ BEFORE FATAL SHOOTING

Daughter says father ‘screaming expletives’ and wielding a gun.

THE ACREAGE — On Sunday night, 36-year-old Jacob Lodge met with his estranged wife, Katrina Nebergall, outside the home she shared with her father in The Acreage to exchange their children’s clothes, as they had done several times during their separation.

Nebergall said in a statement that her husband was calm until she noticed a startled look on his face as he watched the front door of the home:

Her 61-year-old father, former Palm Beach County sheriff ’s deputy Carlton Nebergall Jr., walking toward them with a gun.

Carlton Nebergall was “belligerent, screaming expletives,” according to his daughter.

“Really? You’re going to threaten me with a gun?” Lodge reportedly said.

Instead of fighting, he tried to leave in his car, PBSO deputies said.

Moments later, Jacob Lodge was dead.

Nebergall remains in the Palm Beach County Jail as he awaits his first appearance on first-degree murder charges. He is expected in court this morning, according to court records. Judge Ted Booras recused himself from the case Monday because he said he had known Nebergall “for too many years.”

Nebergall worked at the Lantana Police Department from 1981 to 1985 and at the sheriff ’s office until his retirement 2012, according Florida Department of Law Enforcement records.

In a sheriff ’s report released Tuesday, deputies said their investigation found that Carlton Nebergall disliked his son-in-law “during the entire relationship” between Lodge and his daughter.

Katrina Nebergall filed for divorce from her husband of five years in January.

Lodge’s younger brother, Clint, said Monday that Nebergall’s daughter and Lodge had an “offand-on, love-hate relationship” for about a decade. They had two boys, 9 and 5, according to Clint Lodge.

Nebergall’s daughter and his two grandchildren were living with him at the home on Mellow Court in The Acreage. Lodge, from whom she had been sepa-

rated since November, met her outside of the home, as they had planned.

Katrina Nebergall said that when she saw her father come out with a gun, she told him to go back in the house, according to the report. He yelled and cursed at her husband, but she said Lodge did not become aggressive or threaten him. Instead, she said she told Lodge to “just go” and he got in his car and started driving away.

That’s when her father fired a shot into the air, she told investigators.

As she ran back in the home to check on her children, she heard Lodge stop his car and the car door open. When she got back outside, she saw her father with a gun in his hand by the vehicle and Lodge on the ground, the report said. He was bleeding from his forehead.

Deputies later found Carlton Nebergall trying to hide under a neighbor’s car. A .38-caliber chrome revolver was found under a palm tree according to investigators.

The arrest is not the first in the family.

Lodge was arrested and convicted for selling Carlton Nebergall’s power tools and jewelry in 2016, according to a sheriff’s probable-cause affidavit. At the time, Nebergall said Lodge and his daughter lived with him at The Acreage residence and said the value of the stolen and pawned items totaled more than $8,000. Lodge was sentenced to probation, according to court records.

In the petition for divorce, Katrina Nebergall said she wanted sole custody of the children because there was a history of domestic violence. Lodge was arrested and charged with domestic violence against his mother in 2015, but those charges were never filed, according to court records. In 2001, there were two battery arrests and convictions, but it’s unclear who was involved in those incidents.

Nebergall’s son, Deputy Jason Nebergall, was arrested in December 2016 after he was accused of sexually battering a woman he was sent to help on a domestic call. The younger Nebergall remains on unpaid leave as his case remains open.