Officers attempted to contact the people in the home for about an hour before Deputy Bradley Michael Link, 28, and Deputy Harold Howell, 41, entered the home.
Body camera footage shows Link walking through a laundry room and into a hallway, where a man in what appeared to be body armor and armed with a rifle sitting on a couch “waited to ambush the officers,” Grinnell said.
Link didn’t see the man, believed to be Sulpizio’s husband, Michael Sulpizio, and turned the other way before a hail of gunfire erupted, striking Link several times in the back, officials said.
A bullet also hit Howell in the wrist, while Michael Sulpizio continued shooting at Link, who tried in vain to crawl to safety, the sheriff said. During this time, another perpetrator inside the house began shooting at officers outside the house.
