FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After serving three years for aggravated battery on a pregnant woman, false imprisonment, resisting an officer with violence and battery of a law enforcement officer, Joshua Carroll walked out of prison in 2012, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. His freedom ended painfully on Friday.
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department identified the 31-year-old convicted felon as the man who was armed with a machete, a knife, and two handguns when a police officer shot him in the leg as he reportedly refused to follow commands.
Witnesses told police Carroll was wielding the machete and the knife in the parking lot of the TD Bank at 1701 East Sunrise Boulevard. He was gone, but police officers who were looking for him found him at the 1100 block of Northeast 15th Avenue.
When Carroll became aggressive, a police officer deployed an electric stun gun, according to Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Tracy Figone. But that wasn't enough to stop him. About a block away, Figone said one of the officers shot Carroll in the leg, because he was aggressive.
Carroll was treated at Broward Medical General Medical Center on Friday, and he was at the Broward County jail, records show.
Carroll appeared in Broward County court on Saturday morning and his bond was set to $513,000, records show. He faced two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, two counts of resisting arrest with violence and two counts of possession of firearm by a convicted felon.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the shooting. Figone was asking anyone with information on the incident to call the FDLE at 1-800-226-3023.