PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – A Charlotte County Sheriff’s sergeant was fatally shot Monday while investigating a domestic disturbance at an apartment complex. Michael Wilson, a 20-year veteran, was responding to a physical fight involving 49-year-old Jay Vanko, his wife and son. Police said Vanko immediately shot Wilson from the top of a second-story stairwell, creating a “fatal funnel” and striking the officer in the chest above his bullet-proof vest. Deputies, with assistance from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, used a tactical robot and found the suspect dead inside the apartment. The Herald-Tribune reports that over his career, the sergeant worked in the jail, road patrol and street crimes divisions of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, in addition to serving as a school resource officer.