Update: Winter Haven man fatally shot by deputy. And it started with a melted candy bar

The Winter Haven man who was fatally shot by a Polk County sheriff's deputy Friday night was apparently sent into a rage after a candy bar melted on his computer, Sheriff Grady Judd said in a Saturday afternoon update.

Judd offered more details of the events leading up to the shooting in an afternoon video update posted to the Sheriff's Office YouTube page.

He said Henry Maynard, 19, was visiting his grandmother's house in the Oakwood Estates mobile home community off Spirit Lake Road Friday evening, and napping in the house. While he was sleeping, his grandmother brought him a chocolate candy bar and placed it on his computer. When Maynard awoke about 9:30 p.m., the candy bar had melted.

"He went into a rage," Judd said in the video update. Maynard ran to his parents' house eight-tenths of a mile away, grabbed a shoulder pack, got in a car and drove back to his grandmother's house.

"He was not supposed to drive the car. It was unregistered, he doesn't have a driver's license," Judd said. The grandmother called the parents and told them he was back at her house and "in a rage."

"In the meantime, he dials 911," Judd said. "He tells the operator he's about to commit a crime and he needs to be able to escape."

Maynard left the house in the car, but as he was leaving, his grandmother was standing by a car door trying to stop him. He pulled out anyway, knocking down and dragging his grandmother for a short distance, Judd said.

Deputy Christian Quattlebaum responded and met Maynard's parents and they all decided to search for Maynard. The parents went one way, and the deputy was turning around to go another.

"As my deputy is turning around, the suspect, Henry, drives past his parents, accelerates at a high rate of speed and T-bones my deputy inside this mobile home community," Judd said. "A neighbor said this man jump out of his vehicle in an absolute rage like a madman, ran to the driver-side door of the deputy's vehicle and started yanking on it until it came open. And started climbing into the vehicle."

Judd said Quattlebaum was trying to get out of the passenger side "because he doesn't know what this person's doing that just rammed his vehicle and is now trying to attack him."

When Maynard got into the front seat and moved aggressively toward the deputy, Quattlebaum shot him, Judd said.

Judd said Maynard's parents arrived very shortly after, and Maynard's father — a nurse who works with the Polk County jail system — attempted CPR. But Maynard died at the scene.

Maynard's mother, Doris Maynard, has been a Polk County detention deputy for 10 years. "Wonderful, wonderful people," Judd said.

The sheriff said Maynard also had a cousin who is a sheriff's deputy.

Quattlebaum, 26, has been with PCSO for 4.5 years, the Sheriff's Office said. He's assigned to the Central District Delta platoon. Judd said his wife is a sheriff's detective. He was treated for his injuries at the hospital. Judd said he wasn't significantly injured.

Judd said the grandmother was still at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center "with a broken arm, and is going to survive, but she's in stable condition at this time."

The Officer Involved Deadly Incident Task Force for the 10th Judicial Circuit is investigating.

Original report:

Polk County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who hit his grandmother with a vehicle and then rammed the deputy's car Friday night, authorities say.

The Sheriff's Office said in an early morning news release that the incident happened about 9:30 p.m. in the Oakwood Estates mobile home community off Spirit Lake Road in Winter Haven, south of State Road 540. Sheriff Grady Judd, in a brief statement on the department's Facebook page, said a man had come to the neighborhood to visit his grandmother and an argument or disturbance occurred.

"He hit her with the vehicle, knocking her to the ground," Judd said. The woman was taken to Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center as an emergency case.

"He then fled and drove directly at and T-boned one of my deputies, who was in the process of turning around in the roadway looking for the victim's address and the suspect who he knew was in the area."

Judd said the suspect rammed the deputy's car "extremely hard," then jumped out, there was a confrontation, and the deputy shot the suspect. The man died at the scene.

Judd said the Sheriff's Office would release more details later Saturday, "after our shooting team does their preliminary workup." He said names would be released after they're confirmed and next of kin are notified.

As of 1:30 a.m., the deputy was being treated for injuries at the hospital.