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Officials: 21-year-old Polk County deputy killed in crossfire from fellow deputies

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Deputy Blane Lane, 21, was fatally shot while serving an arrest warrant in unincorporated Polk City Tuesday morning, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Four deputies were attempting to arrest Cheryl Lynn Williams, 46, at a mobile home at around 2 a.m. on Foxtown South on a warrant for failing to appear in court for a possession of methamphetamine charge. When deputies arrived, they asked a man at the scene, known as Witness A, where Williams was. The man told them she was behind the home, but when deputies went there, a second man told the deputies that she was inside and invited them to enter. At this point, Deputy Lane goes back to the front of the home and takes a

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Officials: 21-year-old Polk County deputy killed in crossfire from fellow deputies

Judd said an early investigation found that six shots were fired and that the shot that hit Lane came from a fellow deputy that went through an exterior wall.

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