A 39-year-old convicted felon was shot dead by police after the man attacked a police officer with a metal rod after and burned his girlfriend's nine-year-old son because he thought the boy was 'possessed by a demon.'Richard Myron Ham was wielding two metal rods and burning debris, including live ammunition, on the side of the road on U.S. 98 in Sebring around 4 pm on Tuesday.When deputies from the Highlands County Sheriffs Department and Highlands County Fire-Rescue arrived to the scene, witnesses told police that Ham had covered his girlfriend Lakenya Phillips, 30, young son with a blanket before pushing him into the burning fire.
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