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Sep. 26, 2012 — Inverness

State investigators said that Citrus sheriff's deputy trainee Greg Entrekin was at his girlfriend's home when Derrick Vaccianna entered through a window around 10:45 p.m.

Vaccianna, 28, confronted Entrekin and Amanda Vance. Entrekin, 24, armed himself.

Vaccianna then called 911 to say that he was in his fiancee's house and a deputy had a gun to his head. Entrekin told authorities that Vaccianna eventually became enraged and lunged at him, prompting Entrekin to shoot him once in the chest. Vaccianna died at the scene. Read more

Vance had been in a relationship with Vaccianna, who still thought of her as his fiancee. Entrekin told deputies that Vaccianna had threatened him in phone and text messages. Vaccianna's family maintained that Vance had asked him to come to her home, where he had lived with Vance.

This was the 104th police shooting in Florida in 2012.

The same day, one officer shot one person in Tampa .

One day later, three officers shot one person in Lauderhill .

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