With the lights of a cop car flashing red and blue thru the window and the sound of the humming helicopter going in and out till 3:00 in the morning it was very hard to fall asleep. When Daniel and I first saw the car we watched for a bit. The officer was checking each car that tired to come into the neighbor. Well this morning thanks to The Ledger I know why.
Read this article I took from their site.

Auburndale Officer Shot; Suspect Taken Into Custody After Standoff
Sep 3, 2011
By MATTHEW PLEASANT / THE LEDGER
AUBURNDALE | An Auburndale police officer was critically wounded Friday night as she approached a home to investigate a report of a couple arguing and was shot multiple times, deputies said.
Stacy Lee Booth, 26, was shot in the right forearm and through her abdomen, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. She underwent surgery at Lakeland Regional Medical Center and was in critical but stable condition Saturday morning.
Michael Wayne Lester, 36, of 413 Diamond Ridge Drive, in Auburndale, is accused of shooting Booth. Polk County sheriff’s SWAT Team members took him into custody about 1 a.m. Saturday after firing gas canisters into his home.
Lester was being treated Saturday morning at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, deputies said. He will be booked today into Polk County Jail.
“The suspect decides whether we need to use deadly force,” Judd told reporters during a 2 a.m. press conference. “Tonight he decided we didn’t have to.”
Officer Booth responded to the home after emergency dispatchers received a call just after 10 p.m. Friday from a young girl who said her parents were arguing. Dispatchers reached her mother by cell phone, who told them she and her daughter had left the home and were fine.
Despite the mother’s assurances, Booth arrived at Lester’s home about 10 minutes later to investigate. As she approached, she was struck by what deputies think were gunshot blasts fired by Lester through his front door.
It appears Booth was never able to make contact with Lester and had no warning the shots were coming, Judd said.
“This was clearly an ambush,” he said.
Officers surrounded the home and Lester fired 8 to 9 more shots at them, Judd said. Lester refused to cooperate with negotiators and Polk County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team members fired gas into the home.
Authorities navigated a State Fire Marshal’s robot into the home and found Lester inside unconscious. Deputies believe he was knocked out by the gas.
Police blocked access to the Diamond Ridge neighborhood and turned residents away at the Adams Road and Polk City Road. Neighbors of Lester’s home were evacuated during the incident.
“I had no idea what was going on,” said Kristina Rhett, 55, who lives in a neighborhood on Adams Road and was blocked from going home. “They just said it was for my own safety.”
Residents were allowed to return about 2 a.m.
Officer Booth joined the Auburndale Police Department in April 2010. She is engaged to be married to Polk County sheriff’s detention deputy Thomas West.
Auburndale Police Chief Nolan McLeod was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer and began treatment for the illness Friday, authorities said. He was too ill to respond to the shooting.
[ Matthew Pleasant can be reached at matthew.pleasant@theledger.com or 863-802-7590. ]

Whoa! That is so close to us! Crazy. I just thought it was someone that tired to rob someone and ran into the groves. My prayers are with the officer and her family.