A Florida man is in critical condition after he was shot by a sheriff's deputy in Palm Beach County when he began to threaten them with a machete on Tuesday evening, authorities said.

According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, deputies were responded to reports of a domestic disturbance in the 7400 block of 43rd Terrace North in unincorporated Riviera Beach around 6 p.m. and began to speak people about what had taken place.

"At that time, a young, black male walked out," Chief Deputy Robert Allen said at a news conference . "(The deputies) tried to speak to him to see what his role in the incident was. As we walked passed them, he retrieved something out of the hedges that he knew was planted there."

That object, Allen said, was a machete that was about a foot-and-a-half lon

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