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Door to door salesman shot in FL, shooter tries to use stand your ground defense.

What happened next, he said, was horrifying.

“I went to bend over to help the guy on the ground, the victim, and out of the garage I heard something: ‘I’ll kill everybody or shoot everybody,’ Snyder said. “And he cocked his gun and thank God for the Collier County sheriff’s (deputy), she probably saved my life and everybody else’s life that was in the area,” Snyder said.

He said the deputy pulled her service weapon on Roop and ordered him twice to place his gun on the ground before he complied.

Snyder said Roop appeared dirty and disheveled.

“When he came out of the garage, he looked totally deranged to me,” he said. “He looked like he was off the deep end.”

He said Roop told the off-duty deputy, as well as the Cape officer who arrested him, the shooting was justified.

“He was telling the officer, ‘he stepped on my property, he trespassed, I’ll kill anybody that steps on my property,’ somewhere along them lines. It was just unbelievable,” Snyder said.