SPRING HILL --
A Hernando County sheriff's deputy was injured Monday night in a standoff with a man holed up in a Spring Hill home.
According to the sheriff's office, Deputy Lance Origon was shot while deputies were checking on a foreclosed home.
Deputies were responding to a welfare check at 5351 Joyner Avenue Monday afternoon. Officials said the welfare check was due to the home being foreclosed on.
When deputies arrived and knocked on the door, they received no answer. Authorities became concerned, entered the house at 8:45 p.m. and the man in the home shot at them, according to the sheriff's office.
Origon, 31, was wounded though his injury was not serious.
Deputies returned fire, hitting the gunman, who later died. His identity has not been released.
Origon, with the agency since 2002, was taken to Spring Hill Regional Hospital with a non life-threatening gunshot wound. He was treated and released in about two hours.
The case remains under investigation.
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