Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office reports off-duty Pasco County deputy dies by suicide in Palm Harbor

The incident resulted in the death of a 30-year-old law enforcement officer and triggered a multi-agency sheriff's office investigation involving a second deputy.

• •An off-duty Pasco County sheriff's deputy, 30-year-old David Greis Ospina, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
• •The incident occurred in the parking lot of Silks Gentlemen's Club in Palm Harbor just after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.
• •Investigators stated Ospina and another Pasco County deputy attended a Halloween party earlier that night before arriving at the strip club.
• •Ospina and the female deputy got into an argument in the parking lot before the shooting.
• •Ospina pointed a handgun at the female deputy in the truck before shooting himself in the head.
• •The female deputy alerted people inside the business, who called 911.
• •Ospina had been employed with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office since July 2019.