Officer-Involved Shooting on Interstate 75 in Sumter County

A Sumter County sheriff’s captain said deputies did everything possible Thursday morning to try to avoid the outcome of a high-speed chase on southbound Interstate 75 that left a murder suspect dead. “This is not the way we wanted this to end,” Capt. Tony Prevatt said Thursday afternoon at the Sumter sheriff’s administrative office on Powell Road in Wildwood. The suspect, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was wanted in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of a Quality Inn hotel in Hernando early Thursday morning after an older man was found dead.