Deputy bodycam footage shows deadly shooting of wanted registered sex offender in DeSoto County
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Arcadia, FL - The DeSoto County Sheriff's Office has released body camera footage from a January shooting in Arcadia that left a registered sexual offender dead and a deputy injured.
According to the DCSO, it received a call from the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office in Georgia about a man with an active warrant in Georgia's Forsyth County for enticing a child for indecent purposes.
Deputies discovered Matthew Steven Rollie, 30, was a registered sexual offender but did not register in DeSoto County, as required by law.
At approximately 2:16 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle believed to be occupied by Rollie around state Road 72 between Thigpen Road and Addison Avenue.
Two people were in the vehicle, and deputies identified Rollie as the passenger.
As deputies were working to confirm his identity, the DCSO said that Rollie armed himself with a firearm and opened fire. He struck one of the deputies multiple times.
According to the DCSO, deputies returned fire and struck Rollie. At the scene, Rollie was pronounced dead.
The DCSO said the injured deputy is at home recovering.