Two Fort Lauderdale Police officers have been placed on administrative leave after they shot and killed a man who, police say, started a fire in a parking lot early Thursday morning.
Authorities responded to the fire call that ended in a shooting around 6:30 a.m. to the 5300 block of Northwest 33rd Avenue, where police and fire crews encountered a significant blaze in a parking lot and a man reportedly throwing incendiary devices, said department spokesperson Ali Adamson.
Police say the man was “holding what appeared to be incendiary devices” and two officers fired their guns at him when he did not comply with their verbal commands, though they did not specify the commands nor the fire starting devices…