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The Latest: Deputy, man both dead after law office shooting

Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley, far left, and other sheriff's office personnel and emergency responders work at the scene of a law office in Shalimar, Fla., where a deputy sheriff was shot Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. The suspect then fled to the nearby town of Niceville and barricaded himself in a hotel before exchanging gunfire with deputies. He was taken into custody just before 10:30 a.m. Central time. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)
Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley, far left, and other sheriff's office personnel and emergency responders work at the scene of a law office in Shalimar, Fla., where a deputy sheriff was shot Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. The suspect then fled to the nearby town of Niceville and barricaded himself in a hotel before exchanging gunfire with deputies. He was taken into custody just before 10:30 a.m. Central time. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

By Associated Press 1 min read

SHALIMAR, Fla. (AP) – The latest developments in the shooting of a Florida Panhandle deputy (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

Authorities say a Florida Panhandle sheriff’s deputy and a suspect are dead following a shooting outside a lawyer’s office and a standoff at a nearby hotel.

Okaloosa Sheriff Larry Ashley said during a news conference Tuesday that Deputy Bill Myers and the suspect, 33-year-old Joel Dixon Smith, had died.

Myers had met Smith at a Shalimar law office earlier in the day. Officials say Smith was supposed to surrender his firearms following a domestic violence injunction, but Smith instead shot Myers and fled to a hotel where he had been staying.