The Pasco County Sheriff's Office released body camera video from a deadly standoff and exchange of gunfire last week.

Video shows the shooting playing out in the middle of a neighborhood, blocks away from Gulf Highlands Elementary School.  Shooter Brian Disario shot and killed another man, exchanged gunfire with deputies and then took his own life.

The video shows deputies Nick Carmack and Michael Sudler meeting the shooter head-on and with little cover. They had responded to a frantic 911 call from the shooter’s mother.

“My son shot someone," said Disario's mother to the dispatcher. "He is schizophrenic. Please get the officers and ambulance here now. He has a loaded gun.”

The agency posted the body camera video on their Facebook page Monday.


Disario, 30, shot and killed 56-year old David Armstrong. Investigators say the shooter believed the victim had been hitting on his imaginary girlfriend.

Disario then left the home near Gulf Highlands Elementary school, only to see deputies confronting him.

Sheriff Chris Nocco called the deputies "heroes."

“That suspect could have started walking toward the school, had it not been for Nick and Mike," Nocco said. "They were out there. They made a conscious decision to do anything they had to do to protect those kids in school and the community.”

Nocco likened the shooting to some of the ones nationally, where the shooter did have some sort of mental problem. He wants to see more done to keep guns out of the hands of those that have mental problems.

“It goes from Las Vegas to here," Nocco said. "Addiction and mental health are health care issues. Until the federal government can put more into these issues, we’re going to have shootings like this.”

The sheriff said the shooter had an AR-15 and .22 caliber rifle. It appears he obtained both guns legally.

Both deputies involved in the incident are on routine leave. The shooting remains under investigation.