A Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy responding to a suicide threat wound up shooting a man after he brandished a firearm during a wellness check.

According to Undersheriff Ron Lendvay, his agency was called by Clay Behavioral Health Center after a county resident called the center to complain one of his medications was cancelled. The man then threatened to “blow his brains out.” Clay Behavioral called the sheriff’s office at 1:42 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22.

Knowing the man had been previously Baker Acted and had been suicidal in the past, Lendvay said they performed a wellness check at his home, but he wasn’t there. A deputy stopped a car on State Road 21 near Gas Line Road belonging to one of the man’s relatives, and they found the man in the passenger seat.

After telling deputies he owned a firearm, but he left it at his home. After admitting he called Clay Behavioral to threaten suicide, he pulled a gun from his pocket after the deputy said he wanted to check him for weapons, CCSO said.

After several attempts to have the man drop his weapon “to de-escalate the situation,” Lendvay said: “He was ultimately shot.”

Despite lifesaving measures by deputies and Clay County Fire Rescue, the man was pronounced dead at the scene, CCSO said.

The sheriff’s office then worked traffic control after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took over the investigation. Lendvay did not identify the man, who Lendvay said was in his mid-30s, as well as the sheriff’s office deputy who shot him.

This is a developing story.