{"id":58481,"date":"2025-11-24T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:18:09","slug":"man-accused-of-fatally-shooting-florida-deputy-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58481\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of fatally shooting Florida deputy dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UPI\"<\/p>\n

Indian River County Deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow, 45, died Friday after being shot during an eviction in Vero Beach, Fla. Photo courtesy of Indian River County Sheriff’s Office\/Facebook<\/p>\n

Nov. 24 (UPI) — The man accused of fatally shooting a Florida deputy who was serving an eviction notice last week has died, authorities said over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Indian River County Deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow, 45, died Friday after being shot during an eviction in Vero Beach, only the second line-of-duty death in the agency’s 100-year history.<\/p>\n

The suspected gunman was identified as Michael Halberstam, 37.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said Halberstam died at 3:41 p.m. EST Saturday.<\/p>\n

Three deputies were serving the notice on Michael Halberstam, 37, in upscale Bermuda Club, when he allegedly grabbed a weapon and opened fire, killing Sweeting-Mashkow. Halberstam was wounded by return fire from the other two deputies.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office on Saturday added that Sweeting-Mashkow had been posthumously promoted to sergeant.<\/p>\n

“She will be addressed as Sergeant Sweeting-Mashkow henceforth,” it said in the brief statement.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to all of our community for your continued support during these difficult times.”<\/p>\n

Sweeting-Mashkow was a 25-year veteran with the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian River County Deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow, 45, died Friday after being shot during an eviction in Vero Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34969,28,30,29,12189,35537,35536],"class_list":{"0":"post-58481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-eviction-notice","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-indian-river-county","13":"tag-michael-halberstam","14":"tag-terri-sweeting-mashkow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}