Man shot outside WWE training complex in Orlando

A man was shot outside the WWE Performance Center in Orlando.

A man was shot outside the WWE Performance Center, the company’s training complex in Orlando, police said Tuesday.

According to WESH, Orlando police responded to a trespassing call at the training center Monday afternoon. Orange County sheriff Jerry Demings said at press conference that a 29-year-old man who was obsessed with a female WWE wrestler was at the facility with a knife.

The man charged at a sheriff’s deputy responding to the trespass call, at which point the deputy fired one shot, Demings said. At the time of the press conference, the man was in surgery at a local hospital. 

WWE released a statement on the shooting, saying the man was “a deranged individual.”

Statement from the @WWE about today's shooting at the Performance Center in Orlando: #WWE @OrangeCoSheriff pic.twitter.com/40UtfThcK4

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Demings said that his office had three previous encounters with the man. 

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