PORT ST. LUCIE − Police responding to reports of a “violent domestic disturbance” over the weekend fatally shot a man who held a propane tank and a lighter as his wife was restrained with plastic ties, police said Monday.
The incident began shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday at a home in the 600 block of Northwest Marion Avenue, which is east of Northwest Bayshore Boulevard and north of Southwest Prima Vista Boulevard.
A white minivan was pulled up to the residence’s front door so no one could enter or exit, and investigators “believe that his intent was to ignite the house with him, the wife and three children in the home,” Sgt. Dominick Mesiti, police spokesperson, said Monday…