The FDLE Report:
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Article on the report, with links to pictures, 911 recordings, etc
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(Note: to Seamus -- your time estimate was off by about 6 months.
)A somewhat shorter version (warning - this is not a cheerful reading): One Joshua Cartwright was being sought by police for striking his wife that day. He was already facing charges of domestic violence against her. His wife told police he was armed with several guns and was going to a shooting range.
Two deputies (York and Lopez) stopped by the range, did not find him, went on, came back, and found him at the range. Cartwright had been shooting at the range, and was apparently leaving. The deputies confronted him in the parking lot and after he refused orders, tased him. He fell to the ground, but drew a pistol (apparently a Taurus PT111 in 9mm) and fired at both deputies, wounding both in the arms. Lopez managed to radio to others that he had been wounded. Cartwright then killed Deputy Lopez with a shot to the head using the Deputy York's gun (a ParaOrdnance .45) who had apparently dropped it when wounded in the arms. Cartwright then killed York, also with a shot to the head with the Taurus. Cartwright left blood behind at the scene, but it's not known how he was wounded.
Cartwright drove from the gun range (all the employees and customers were taking cover and later provided statements), was later spotted by another deputy, and the chase was on. He avoided a couple attempts to stop him with spike strips, was fired on at least once by a deputy standing at the road blocks, and was then forced off the road by a deputy in a vehicle. Cartwright's truck rolled over several times, including over the top of a police car, and came to rest upside down. During the crash he sustained numerous contusions and lacerations, plus broken right tibia and fibula, broken left fibula, and broken left femur. He crawled out of the truck and started firing at the police. They fired back. Cartwright was killed when he shot himself in the head with his Ruger 9mm.
It is not clear how many times Cartwright was actually hit. The report first says 15 gunshot entrance wounds. In detailing the wounds, it ultimately lists "the sixteenth and seventeenth wounds," plus lists many grazing wounds to his legs. When I count the list, I count 15, plus the grazing wounds. Most gunshot wounds were in the legs and one to his arm." Aside from Deputy York's .45, all deputies apparently used .40 Glocks, plus a STAG-15 rifle. Besides the handgun bullets recovered from his body .223 fragments were recovered from his anterior sternum. (At least twenty .223 rounds were expended).
Cartwright's fatal wound was self-inflicted: he shot himself in the head with a 9mm Ruger. It appears he may have tried to shoot himself in the head once and missed - he had a grazing wound with stippling to his right ear -- the fatal wound was directly in his right ear. His Ruger was laying on his right shoulder.
