When officers responded, the suspect allegedly rammed a police car with officers still inside, prompting police to fire their weapons.

KEY WEST, Fla. – Police officers fired at a vandal on a tractor on Saturday at the College of the Florida Keys in Key West. According to the Key West Police Department, the vandal was damaging cars and a building at the college’s Lagoon Landing dorm at 5891 College Road.

Key West police fired at a suspect who was wielding a tractor Saturday at The College of the Florida Keys, a police spokesperson said.

Police officers jumped into the water “without hesitation” and saved 41-year-old Michael Lee Grimes by breaking the windows of his black Dodge Challenger as it floated off Simonton Beach and began filling up with water, said Key West police spokeswoman Alyson Crean.

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When officers got to 5901 College Rd. Saturday, they found a man on a tractor “destroying vehicles and a building,” Keys police public information officer Alyson Crean said in an email. A Facebook post by Keys Weekly Newspapers showed a car on its side and the Lagoon Landing dorm lobby entrance smashed through.