{"id":34453,"date":"2023-08-10T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=34453"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:26:52","slug":"update-wanted-jacksonville-man-with-child-pornography-charges-kills-himself-following-a-standoff-with-polk-county-sheriffs-office-swat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/08\/10\/update-wanted-jacksonville-man-with-child-pornography-charges-kills-himself-following-a-standoff-with-polk-county-sheriffs-office-swat\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Wanted Jacksonville man with child pornography charges kills himself following a standoff with Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office SWAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Jacksonville man killed himself Tuesday afternoon, August 8, 2023, concluding an armed standoff with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office SWAT team that lasted more than four-and-a-half hours.\u00a0

PCSO Crisis Negotiators tried to convince\u00a045-year-old Marquis Lynn Baker\u00a0to peacefully surrender while he sat in his gray 2012 Chevrolet Impala parked in a wooded area near the Christina Animal Hospital at 6800 Church Avenue North near Mulberry.\u00a0

\u201cOur SWAT members and Crisis Negotiators have responded to armed barricaded subjects on two consecutive days. While the goal is to end these kinds of calls peacefully, the most important thing is that no deputies or innocent bystanders have been injured in either of these events\u2014and for that, I am extremely grateful.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Grady Judd, Sheriff.

PCSO deputies first became aware that Baker, who was wanted out of Duval County for Failure to Appear for 11-counts of Possession of Child Pornography, was in Bartow at around 10:27 am. Baker was also listed as a Missing Person based on statements he made to his defense attorney.

After locating Baker\u2019s vehicle, deputies followed him for about five minutes until Baker turned off at the veterinarian\u2019s office, stopped his car, and put a .40 caliber handgun to his own head.

Deputies continually communicated with Baker during the standoff trying to get him to surrender, and even provided him with a cell phone to make it easier to keep the dialogue going.\u00a0

At about 3:20 pm, Baker fired a single bullet into the left side of his head. SWAT Medics immediately began life saving measures on Baker. He was transported to a local hospital but was pronounced deceased at 3:50 pm.

No deputies discharged their firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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