Lakeland, Fla. ? A man suspected of killing a sheriff’s deputy was shot to death Friday in the woods near Lakeland by police after an all-night manhunt in which searchers walked shoulder-to-shoulder through the tangled brush.

SWAT members did not see the man until they were beside him because he had dug himself in beneath a fallen oak tree, Sheriff Grady Judd said.

The man refused to show both hands when officers commanded him to, and they opened fire when it appeared he was carrying the slain deputy’s gun, Judd said.

It was unclear if the man also fired the weapon.

Hundreds of officers had used night-vision scopes, tracking dogs, helicopters and door-to-door searches to locate the man. He was found just 100 yards from where Deputy Vernon Matthew Williams, 39, was killed Thursday after a traffic stop.