Police are responding to a possible shooting at a Florida bank branch.
Authorities responded to a possible shooting at a SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Fl., about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a report that a man had fired shots inside, the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office said.
Officers unsuccessfully attempted to get the suspect to leave the bank, leading the sheriff’s office’s SWAT team to enter the building and continue negotiating with him. The suspect surrendered to the SWAT team, according to the sheriff’s office.
Highway U.S. 27, where the bank is located, has been shut down in both directions in the area near the bank. Sebring, a city of 10,000, is about 90 miles southeast of Tampa in the center of the state.
Two schools in the area — Kindergarten Learning Center and Fred Wild Elementary School — were operating on heightened security as a result of the possible shooting.
