CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – The 47-year-old man shot and critically injured by two Clay County deputies after pointing a shotgun at one of them on June 23 outside Keystone Heights was released from the hospital Monday and booked into the Clay County Jail, officials.
George Nelson was shot just after 2 p.m. at a home on Lake Echo Ridge Road, a dirt road off County Road 219 between Keystone Heights and Melrose.
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Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels said two deputies responded to the residence after receiving calls from neighbors saying a man, later identified as George Robert Nelson, was firing a pump shotgun.
When deputies arrived, Daniels said, Nelson came out of the home and deputies took up defensive positions and tried to get him to drop the firearm.
"The guy, eventually, levels the shotgun in the direction of one of the responding deputies, and they also responded with deadly force," Daniels said in a media briefing.
Both deputies fired an undetermined amount of shots at Nelson, hitting him multiple times, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
Nelson was airlifted to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, where he was in critical condition until his release Monday.