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are you getting our first look tonight at the bazaar fight involving a Lee County sheriff's deputy and the suspect he pulled over in Estero yesterday this picture if you look closely shows the suspect straddling the deputy as he is as witnesses say brutally attacking him and tonight we got a closer look at the face of the man who attacked the deputy Edward David Strother who died after a passerby walked up and shot him to protect the deputy for new coroners Lisa Greenberg has more about this case and where the sheriff himself is now weighing in he had like just I don't know where he came out and attacked us deputy what was he doing um he would like he that got onto him and he'd like starting punching him and just you know being very rough and wrestling with it witnesses describe the attack on the deputy as brutal 53 year old Edward Strother beating on Lee County deputy Bardis as they were feet from his open patrol car investigators say earlier on Interstate 75 Strother tried to run over Bartis it ended when a bystander who Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott calls a Good Samaritan shot and killed Strother Florida law protects individuals in the use of deadly force or any force and if they're justified private investigator Wald's Eliseo says from what he's heard about the case the bystander yelled at Strother to stop beating on the deputy when Strother didn't stop the armed driver shot Strother three times xue Lesko says three shots isn't excessive in a high-stress situation involving danger to somebody everybody does a Monday night quarterbacking routine on this you know oh you should have shot him just once no it doesn't happen like that this is real-life scenarios where the individual is physically and brutally attacking somebody you fire until you neutralize the suspect a statement from the sheriff's office explains the man who shot Strother wants to stay anonymous but says he does have a concealed weapons permit Zelasko saying deputy Bardis was lucky that armed driver was there unfortunate these things happen but you know if you see somebody in trouble you know you should intervene Lisa Greenberg Fox 4 in your corner and deputy Barnes is in the tonight he is expected to make a full recovery for inner corner learning more tonight about the deputy involved in the case for inner corner obtaining his performance evaluation barniz struggled with an arrestee in 2014 the arrestee ran away it took deputies 45 minutes to find him again during that case in his most recent evaluation Bartis was rated above standard for the security of detainees though and his personnel file also showing that the deputy was counseled in july for his second preventable crash within three years most of the comments though on his evaluations described him as having a great work ethic great attitude great professionalism with people one evaluator describing him as a leader in traffic stop please