Florida sheriff hails ‘hero’ sniper who saved bank robbery hostages, slams blue state ‘failed policies'
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Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno spoke with Fox News Digital about the sniper shot seen in the now-viral department shared video, as well as law and order across the U.S.
Sheriff Marceno believes in transparency. His department made that clear by publicizing bank surveillance footage from Feb. 6, when an alleged robber was holding a man and a woman hostage in a Fort Myers Bank of America. After suspect Sterling Alavache allegedly held a knife to the female hostage's throat, a special operations unit sniper shot a bullet that blasted through a computer monitor before striking and killing Alavache.
The video, posted by the Lee County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) to Facebook on Saturday, has since gone viral, and the sheriff believes he knows why.