WATCH: Police officer cheats death when bullet ricochets off body camera during savage ambush by armed suspect

New video captured the horrifying infinitesimal a Florida constabulary officer’s assemblage camera stopped a slug from piercing his thorax portion conducting a regular probe past month. 

The incidental unfolded erstwhile Deputy Jose Rivera and his lawman trainee responded to a telephone regarding an battle and artillery probe astatine a location successful Volusia County connected Sunday, March 1, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. 

Upon arriving astatine the home, the deputies encountered the suspect, identified arsenic Luis Diaz Polanco, constabulary said. 

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Body camera video shows Luis Diaz Polanco allegedly exiting his location and allegedly firing connected officers, striking Deputy Jose Rivera successful Volusia County, Fla., connected Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Volusia County Sheriff’s Office)

While trying to talk with Polanco, helium allegedly went backmost into the location and returned with a handgun earlier helium allegedly started firing astatine the officers, according to authorities. 

Rivera was subsequently struck successful the limb and enarthrosis "after a circular ricocheted disconnected of his chest-mounted body-worn camera," the section said.

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Video shows the shootout and the aftermath, including chap deputies pulling a bloodied Rivera to information and applying tourniquets. 

Police spot a tourniquet connected Deputy Jose Rivera aft helium was changeable respective times successful Volusia County, Fla., connected Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Volusia County Sheriff’s Office)

Rivera, a begetter of three, is past placed into the backmost of a constabulary car and transported to a hospital, wherever helium is expected to marque a afloat recovery.

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Additional video shows Polanco connected the crushed with his hands down his backmost arsenic constabulary instrumentality him into custody. 

He was aboriginal charged with attempted murder, according to police.

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Deputy Jose Rivera’s assemblage camera shielded him from being changeable successful the thorax portion responding to a telephone regarding an battle successful Volusia County, Fla., connected March 1, 2026. (Volusia County Sheriff's Office)

While successful custody, Polanco allegedly told constabulary helium had a "horrible day" earlier the shooting and was antecedently progressive successful a confrontation with an unidentified woman, Sheriff Mike Chitwood said successful a quality conference. 

"When the deputies came up to the house, [Polanco] had each volition to sprout them," Chitwood said, adding a nonstop punctuation from the suspect, "‘If I didn't tally retired of ammunition, I would person killed them all.’"

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Polanco allegedly told officers helium was experiencing a intelligence wellness situation astatine the clip of the alleged incident. 

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office shared a photograph connected societal media showing the damaged assemblage camera that stopped the slug from hitting Rivera successful the chest, with the caption, "Deputy Rivera’s assemblage cam took a slug headed for his chest. His chap deputies pulled him to safety. Thank God for that."

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"There's a batch of scumbags retired determination that person a batch of things to say," Chitwood said. "What they did, what those deputies did, was perfectly outstanding. It was bravery, determination was restraint involved. They did everything you could ever inquire a instrumentality enforcement nonrecreational to do." 

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.