STUART — A Martin County sheriff's deputy responding to a call for service Monday shot and wounded a man whom his parents were trying to remove for trespassing, according to sheriff's officials.

The man, who was not identified by name, is in his 30s, and is expected to survive after being struck with a bullet in the abdomen.

The shooting happened just past noon in the Golden Gate neighborhood near Southeast Kensington Street and Southeast Ferndale Avenue as the man charged the deputy with scissors.

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Martin County sheriff’s Lt. Michael Dougherty said the man lives in the Stuart area, and has a criminal record and a troubled past.

“He’s got a history of mental problems, and he’s got a pretty extensive criminal history,” Dougherty said Monday. “I’m told it is aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault — he’s got a pretty thick, violent history.”

When the man appeared at his parent's home Monday, the couple contacted the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies had been at the home Thursday, Dougherty said, when the parents called for help because they feared their son. He was issued a trespass warning.

“Today the parents called about a quarter of 12 and said he’s back, and they were in fear for their safety,” he said. “When we get there, he had fled the area — he had taken off — so our units cleared the area.”

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Deputies continued looking and at 12:06 p.m., a deputy parked up the street from the house sees the man returning, Dougherty said.

“He started walking towards the back side of the home. At that time (the deputy) called other deputies in the area,” he said. “Two deputies went to one side of the property and two deputies went to the other side of the property, thinking they were going to meet him around the back of the property in case he was going to flee.”

That’s where two deputies encountered the man, armed with a pair of black-handled scissors on the north side of the residence. He refused to comply with deputies' commands and charged one of the deputies.

“It all happened so quick. The one deputy drew and fired one round to stop the threat,” Dougherty said. “There was a second deputy that was right there by his side that also observed the whole thing go down.”

The deputy, who was not identified Monday by sheriff's officials, was not injured.

The wounded man was transported to a hospital.

Dougherty said the man’s parents feared their son but were startled he refused to obey law enforcement commands.

“Are they freaked out by the whole thing? Yeah,” he said. "They’ve been very cooperative; when they called deputies, they never imagined their son was going to charge at police with a pretty big pair of sewing shears.”