ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS St. Lucie County crime scene investigators look for evidence at the home of Greg Hill Jr. in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill was fatally shot by St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputies during a standoff Tuesday. Photo by Eric Hasert // Buy this photo ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS St. Lucie County crime scene investigators look for evidence at the home of Greg Hill Jr. in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill was fatally shot by St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputies during a standoff Tuesday. Have a tip in this case? Anyone with information may call Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 800-273-8477 or leave the tip on its website, tcwatch.org. Tipsters could be eligible to receive a reward up to $1,000. Fort Pierce shooting investigation ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Monique Davis, fiancee of suspect Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. is consoled by Hills uncle Tommy Stevens during an interview across from Hill Jr.s residence in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill Jr. was fatally shot by St. Lucie County Sheriffs Deputies during a standoff on Tuesday. ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Evidence markers are next to bullet holes in the garage door of of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr.s home in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce as St. Lucie County Sheriffs Office crime scene investigators investigate the scene on Wednesday. Hill Jr. was fatally shot by St. Lucie County Sheriffs Deputies during a standoff on Tuesday. ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS St.Lucie County crime scene investigators look for evidence at the home of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr.in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill Jr. was fatally shot by St. Lucie County Sheriffs Deputies during a standoff on Tuesday. ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS One of the broken windows is seen where St. Lucie County Sheriffs Deputies tossed pepper stray canisters into the house Tuesday during the standoff between Sheriffs deputies and Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr.n the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill Jr. was fatally shot by St. Lucie County Sheriffs Deputies during a standoff on Tuesday. ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS A St. Lucie County Sheriffs Office investigator examines bullet holes in the garage door at the home of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill Jr. was fatally shot by St. Lucie County Sheriffs Deputies during a standoff on Tuesday See all 57 photos at full size Previous 1 of 57 Next Shooting standoff investigation in Fort Pierce Bullet holes are marked on the garage door where the Tuesday shooting happened in Fort Pierce. Family and friends gather Wednesday outside the scene of the Fort Pierce shooting that happened Tuesday night. Investigation into Tuesday shooting in Fort Pierce continues on Wednesday. Investigation into Tuesday shooting in Fort Pierce continues on Wednesday. Images from investigation into Fort Pierce shooting along Avenue Q. See all 8 photos at full size Previous 1 of 8 Next Standoff In Fort Pierce (Jan. 14, 2014) A member of the St. Lucie County Sheriffs Office puts up crime-scene tape around the home where a man was found dead following a standoff on the 1600 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Images from the scene of a standoff on the 1600 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce on January 14, 2014. The man inside the home was found dead in the garage of the home nearly four hours after the standoff began. Images from the scene of a standoff on the 1600 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce on January 14, 2014. The man inside the home was found dead in the garage of the home nearly four hours after the standoff began. Images from the scene of a standoff on the 1600 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce on January 14, 2014. The man inside the home was found dead in the garage of the home nearly four hours after the standoff began. Images from the scene of a standoff on the 1600 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce on January 14, 2014. The man inside the home was found dead in the garage of the home nearly four hours after the standoff began. See all 20 photos at full size Previous 1 of 20 Next FORT PIERCE — It could be Friday before preliminary autopsy results are released on a man shot during a law enforcement investigation of loud vulgar music across the street from an elementary school Tuesday, according to sheriff’s officials. For now, nothing further has been released about the death of Gregory Hill Jr., 30, of the 1500 block of Avenue Q, or a handgun he had, according to St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Adam Goodner. Deputies fired at Hill as he was lowering a garage door just after deputies ordered him to put down a gun, according to a Sheriff’s Office report. “Fearing for their lives,” one deputy fired, puncturing holes in the now lowered garage door, the reports state. After the shooting, deputies couldn’t see if Hill was injured. In a statement released Wednesday, Sheriff Ken Mascara said a man who identified himself as Hill’s uncle told investigators he had just talked to Hill by phone and Hill was “alive and uninjured, but afraid to come out.” Sheriff’s deputies closed off the area and called in a SWAT unit. About 150 students in an after-school program at Frances K. Sweet Magnet School were transferred to Lincoln Park Academy . About four hours later, a remote camera inserted through the garage door showed Hill motionless on the floor. The autopsy may show what time Hill died and where he had been shot. The incident started around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday when a parent waiting to pick up a student from the magnet school complained to the Sheriff’s Office about hearing profane music from across the street. Loud noises can be a violation of county ordinances and state law. Under state law, breaching the peace can be a misdemeanor offense. When two deputies arrived, they heard loud music coming from Hill’s closed garage. They knocked on doors at the house as well as the garage. According to the reports, when the garage door opened Hill was inside with a gun at his side. Hill’s relatives said the incident occurred as he was getting ready to get his two daughters, ages 9 and 6, who attend Frances K. Sweet. Hill’s criminal record includes cocaine possession and disorderly conduct charges in 2012. His other run-ins with law enforcement, since 2002, range from DUI to obstruction of justice without violence. Both deputies involved in the incident are on paid administrative leave pending the investigation into the gunfire
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