How a melted Almond Joy candy bar triggered horrific sequence of events that ended with cop killing Florida man, 19

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Published: 17:09 EDT, 15 July 2024 | Updated: 17:09 EDT, 15 July 2024

A Florida man was killed by cops aft he reversed into his grandmother in a unsighted rage aft she near an Almond Joy candy barroom to melt connected apical of his computer.

Henry Maynard, from Polk County, sewage into an statement pinch her aft she bought him cocoa while he was asleep.

He woke up, saw it had melted connected his machine and 'went into a rage' earlier moving astir a mile to his parents' location wherever he picked up a container and took a car.

Maynard called 911 to opportunity he was astir to perpetrate a crime and was confronted by a Polk County lawman and his worried family.

He reversed into his 81-year-old grandma and rammed into sheriff’s lawman Christian Quattlebaum's car earlier trying to participate it and he was changeable dormant by nan deputy.

The aged female suffered a surgery limb and was taken to a adjacent hospital.

An incident involving an Almond Joy candy barroom sparked a horrific series of events that ended successful nan decease of 19-year-old Henry Maynard (pictured) successful Florida

Maynard, who did not person a driving license, took a car from his parents' location which was unregistered and called 911.

'He tells nan usability he’s astir to perpetrate a crime and he needs to beryllium capable to escape,' Sheriff Grady Judd said.

His grandma called his parents and said 'he’s present successful nan car and he’s successful a rage', according to nan Sheriff.

The teenager's mother, who worked arsenic a Polk County detention lawman for 10 years, and his father, a nurse, made their measurement to nan scene.

He was confronted by his family and Deputy Quattlebaum adjacent Oakwood Estates successful Winter Haven.

But Maynard reversed his car and knocked his grandma complete earlier accelerating into nan sheriff deputy's car and tried to participate it.

'A neighbour said that this man jumped retired of his conveyance successful an absolute rage, for illustration a madman, ran to nan driver-side doorway of nan deputy’s conveyance and started yanking connected it ‘til it came unfastened and started climbing into nan vehicle,' Judd said.

'Our Deputy Quattlebaum is trying to get retired of nan rider broadside of nan car because he doesn’t cognize what this person’s doing.

He reversed into his 81-year-old grandma and rammed into sheriff’s lawman Christian Quattlebaum's car earlier trying to participate it and he was changeable dormant by nan deputy

His grandma called his parents and said 'he’s present successful nan car and he’s successful a rage', according to nan Sheriff Grady Judd (pictured)

'They conscionable rammed his conveyance and is now trying to onslaught him.'

The sheriff's lawman pulled retired his weapon and changeable Maynard during nan chaotic scene.

The teenager's begetter tried to prevention his life pinch CPR but he was pronounced dormant astatine nan scene.

Quattlebaum, who has worked pinch nan unit for 4 and a half years, was treated for his injuries.

The incident is being investigated by nan 10th Judicial Circuit’s Officer Involved Deadly Incident Task Force.

DailyMail.com has contacted nan Polk County Sheriff's Office for comment.

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