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A 31-year-old Dundee man who was accused of a theft at a shopping center was shot and killed Thursday night after a scuffle with a Dundee police officer, according to the Sheriff's Office.

At 11:30 p.m. Officer Nicholas "Nick" Burns and his supervisor, Corp. Ralph Marshall, responded to a reported theft at Winn Dixie, 28047 U.S. 27, at Dundee Road. When they arrived, they encountered Tyrone Hawkins, of 218 Shepard Ave., in the parking lot, according to a Polk County Sheriff's Office report.

Hawkins got into an altercation with Burns, causing Burns to discharge his handgun, killing Hawkins, the report stated.

Hawkins died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Polk County Medical Examiner's Office.

The Medical Examiner's Officer and the Polk County Sheriff's Office would not say how many times Hawkins was shot.

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