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Police shoot dead armed suspect, 58, outside Florida mosque
 - [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hamid Ould-Rouis, 58, was fatally shot by local and federal law enforcement officers who were serving a warrant Friday afternoon
- The deadly shooting took place in the parking lot of a mosque in the Fort Lauderdale metro area
- Rouis was arrested more than two months earlier on March 13 for shocking his estranged wife with a stun gun at her home in Kissimmee, Florida
- Rouis' wife told authorities he also heated a pot of boiling cooking oil on the kitchen stove and threatened to poor it on her face
- The disturbing domestic dispute unfolded in front of the estranged couple's two children and the victim's female friend, who had been babysitting
- But Rouis' wife declined to press charges against her husband who was set free
- Police sought to arrest Rouis on Friday following a Thursday morning assault of a man and attempted murder of a woman in an apartment in Kissimmee, Florida
- During that incident, the suspect brutally beat the male victim before stabbing the woman, police said
- The female stabbing victim was in critical condition at a local hospital on Friday
- The Daily Mail could not confirm that the stabbing victim was Rouis' wife
- Police obtained a warrant and tracked Rouis to the mosque parking lot where they said he exited his black SUV with a handgun in his hand
- Witnesses said officers fired a hail of bullets as Rouis got out of his vehicle
- He was pronounced dead at the scene
Posted by: Fred 2019-05-28 |
