It's regrettable what happened, but it's remarkable that the officer survived this encounter. It was equal measures of instinct, training and street survival skills.

It took the three of them, with all their training and experience, to get the handcuffs on one man and they still didn't have the upper hand.

Despite all the interviews, evidence and information collected, investigators have found no evidence to fault her report of being taken against her will. Ours is an active, ongoing investigation into a kidnapping.

Although the man was involved in a violent fight with police, there was no obvious injury that would have resulted in collapse and death.

At this point the Clearwater Police Department has launched an active and aggressive investigation of a kidnapping. However, we don't have too many details to go on.

Both of these gentlemen were striking the man and one of the brothers was kicking him while he was on the ground.

We believe it was self- inflicted, however, we have not determined whether it was intentional or accidental.

When police went in, there were a number of circumstances that gave them great pause.

We have learned that when St. Patrick's Day is on a (weekend), people start drinking early.

We came to investigate a fire death. Now we're investigating something completely different.