Two armed drivers busted after road rage results in gunfire May 28, 2013

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men for their roles in a road rage incident Tuesday afternoon in North Port.

During the investigation, detectives learned that despite what was initially reported to law enforcement, the confrontation actually began over driving behavior near River Road and US 41. At that time both drivers stopped on the side of the road and Brandon Nelson, DOB 6/3/89, 360 Albatross Road, Rotonda West, walked around to the rear of his Mercury, retrieved a Mossberg Pump Action Shotgun and cycled the pump action while arguing with Jason Aitchison, DOB 5/6/83, 12658 Kenwood Lane #A, Ft. Myers.

Aitchison retreated to his Geo Tracker and armed himself with a short, pistol grip 20 gauge single shot shotgun and approached Nelson’s driver side window. Nelson put his vehicle in gear and fled the scene. Aitchison followed and as both vehicles approached El Prado Blvd., Aitchison fired a single birdshot round into the rear passenger side window of Nelson’s vehicle, injuring Nelson and his 17-year-old passenger.

Aitchison is charged with Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon, Shooting into a Vehicle and Discharging a Firearm in Public. He was arrested last night and booked into the Sarasota County Jail where he is currently being held on $22,500 bond.

Nelson was arrested this evening and booked into the Sarasota County Jail charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Woman jailed after allegedly shooting man on dialysis table May 22, 2013

A woman has been charged with a shooting Monday morning that wounded a patient at an Orlando dialysis center, according to police.

Shemira R. Hargrove was charged with attempted murder (domestic violence) for the 9:30 a.m. shooting at the Florida Dialysis Center of Orlando on 34th Street, according to police spokesman Diego Toruno.

The victim has not been identified or the nature of his relationship with Hargrove. Details about the shooting also have not be released.

Hargrove, 32, who had been questioned at police headquarters since the shooting, will be taken to the Orange County Jail to be booked.

In December 2000, Hargrove was charged with shooting or throwing a missile into a dwelling or vehicle and criminal mischief. The charges were dismissed.

On Monday, the victim was taken to a local hospital and was described as alert when he left the dialysis center, Toruno said.

Gun malfunctioned 3 times as hubby, 44, attacked estranged wife, 23 May 21, 2013

Julio Villanueva-Vasquez DOB: 4/8/69 10202 Westbranch Court Tampa, FL

Charges:

• Attempted Felony Murder
• Burglary of Dwelling w/Assault
• Violation of Domestic Violence Injunction
• Criminal Mischief

Victim:

Katherinez Villanueva DOB: 1/18/1990

Details:

On May 19, 2013 at approximately 1:27 a.m., the defendant, Julio Villanueva-Vasquez used a tool to puncture the tires of a friend who was visiting the defendant’s estranged wife. The defendant then went to the main entry of the residence and used a tool to attempt to pry the door open. The victim heard strange noises at the door and observed the defendant through the window crouched down. The victim opened the door to take a picture as proof of the defendant being there. The defendant rushed in uninvited.
The defendant and the victim engaged in a physical struggle before the defendant pulled a semi-auto handgun from his waist area. He then pulled the trigger after pointing the gun at the victim’s chest. The gun did not fire so he racked the slide twice and fired twice more, but the gun malfunctioned. The defendant fled on foot.
The victim sustained a small laceration to the face. She positively identified Villanueva-Vasquez as her attacker. A domestic violence injunction was in effect against the defendant. He was located at his residence and arrested without incident.

What’s louder than blaring music? ….. How about GUNFIRE May 19, 2013

MARION COUNTY, FL (May 17, 2013) – On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office responded to 24900 N.E. 133rd Street, Salt Springs, in reference to a “shots fired” incident. At the scene, the victim told deputies Stanley A. Kaniewski, 72, of Salt Springs fired shots with a handgun. The victim said Kaniewski was angry about a   16-year-old playing his music loudly. “He came out of his house and began yelling obscenities and threatening to kill him, if he did not turn the music down,” the report reads.

The juvenile’s father approached Kaniewski’s home, according to the victim, and Kaniewski pointed a revolver at him. Neighbors say they heard gunshots, a male yelling and loud music. Deputies found the gun on a table inside Kaniewski’s home. Kaniewski apparently said he did not want to harm anyone as the gun only had bird shot in it and it would not hurt anyone anyway. Kaniewski was arrested.

ARRESTED:      Stanley A. Kaniewski
D.O.B:                11/13/1940
CHARGE:          Aggravated Assault

Quick … call the fashion police … Man wearing pink socks fired at women sitting on front porch May 18, 2013

An 18-year-old Orlando man is facing four counts of attempted first-degree murder after he allegedly fired several shots at people sitting on their front porch in the Richmond Heights area Monday night.

Three women and a 16-year-old girl who were sitting at the front porch of a home on Ravenall Avenue told Orlando police Antwan Perry Jr. walked by, and when he got a few houses north, he turned around and fired five shots at them.

The four victims told police they have had previous issues with Perry and his family, an arrest report released Tuesday said.

Perry, who was wearing black shorts, a white tank top and pink socks, continued walking to a house on nearby Kirkland Boulevard.

Police found Perry inside the home. He told officers he was walking and heard five shots come from over his head, the report said. He said he didn’t see who was shooting.

Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun Inside, Shoots Friend In The Leg May 14, 2013

A Florida woman accidentally shot her friend in the leg while waiting in line at a Starbucks on Saturday.

Police say Pamela Beck and Amie Peterson were getting coffee at the Tyrone Square Mall in St. Petersburg when Beck moved to set her bags down in order to pay for her drink.

Her purse “hit the ground hard,” St. Petersburg Police spokesman Mike Puetz told The Huffington Post, and a fully loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun that was in the bottom of the handbag fired, striking Peterson above the knee.

Beck told investigators that her father had given her the gun about a year ago, and she hadn’t intended to bring it out in public. “She had forgotten about it,” Puetz said.

Beck does not have a concealed carry weapons permit, according to police, and the case has been referred to prosecutors.

Peterson was treated and released at a nearby trauma center. Other victims of recent accidental shootings have not been so fortunate: this month a three-year-old boy in Tampa fatally shot himself after finding his uncle’s gun in a bedroom, a 2-year-old Kentucky girl died after being accidentally shot by her brother, and a six-year-old girl was critically wounded outside Fort Lauderdale after her brother found a handgun.

Strangely, the incident isn’t the first time a gun has fired from inside a woman’s purse at Starbucks. The Associated Press reported a 2011 incident in which an underaged girl, encouraged to carry a gun by her father, was cited after it fired inside her purse and narrowly missed customers.

Recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show almost seven people are wounded by gunfire every 60 minutes in the U.S.

Newspaper deliveryman shot drunken man tapping on window with gun May 13, 2013

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – After allegedly firing off his gun four times Sunday  morning, Brian Scott Dickey II walked up to two newspaper deliverers, tapped on  the window with the gun and demanded they opened the door, according to Winter  Haven Police. But, the people in the car weren’t who he thought they were.

One of the newspaper deliverers, Douglas Romeo, reached into a lockbox,  pulled out his own gun and shot Dickey three times through the window.

WHPD spokesperson Jamie Brown said the altercation began when Dickey  started following Romeo and Tiffany Simo as they delivered Lakeland Ledger  newspapers in the area of West Lake Cannon Terrace in Winter Haven around 2:50  a.m. Sunday.

“The carriers stopped to prepare a few more papers for  delivery when they heard four pops,” Brown said. Dickey had allegedly discharged  four rounds from a .380 Bersa handgun. “Before they realized what was happening,  Dickey was at the driver’s side banging on the window.”

A person in the  area heard the shots and called 911, followed by a 911 call from the victims. By  the time police arrived, Dickey had left the scene, Brown said. He had been  wounded three times: under the right collarbone, below that wound and a third  round grazed his right arm.

“A short time later, another call to 911 was  received about a man who … at Dickey’s resident,” with gunshot wounds, Brown  said — less than half a mile from the shooting scene. Officers found Dickey at  the home and he was transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center by  ambulance.

“After interviewing other residents at the home,” Brown said,  “it was determined that Dickey had consumed a large amount of alcohol earlier in  the evening.”
Investigators said Dickey got into a verbal argument with  his girlfriend and she contacted Dickey’s brother to come and intervene. When  Dickey’s brother arrived at the home, they argued and it escalated. The brother  left the home and Dickey got then gun and drove off to locate his brother.

He followed a vehicle, which he thought was his brother’s vehicle, but  it wasn’t.

“This guy got much more than he bargained for,” Winter Haven  Police Chief Gary Hester said in a statement Sunday. “These victims feared for  their lives and did exactly what they needed to do. This could have turned out  so much worse than it did.”

Dickey remained at Lakeland Regional Medical  Center with non-life threatening injuries Sunday evening.

Brown  said he will be booked into the Polk County Jail on charges of aggravated  assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm in public.

Romeo is not facing charges. Brown said he possess a valid State of Florida  Concealed Weapons Permit

This is just plain …. SCARY …. Man pulled AK-47 pistol in road-rage incident May 9, 2013

A Deltona man has been charged with aiming an AK-47 pistol at another motorist who complained about his reckless driving, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.

Rodney Selvin, 21, was arrested Sunday night after two residents walking their dog along Council Bluff Drive retrieved their vehicle and drove around the neighborhood until they found a parked yellow Honda S2000 sports couple they had seen driving around street corners at high speeds, records state.

The car was parked in front of Selvin’s Blythe Avenue home. When the upset couple, Phillip and Sharon Wilson, confronted him and began arguing with him, Selvin went indoors and returned with a small version of an AK-47 assault rifle, records state.

According to the Wilsons, “Selvin begin cycling (cocking) the action of the gun as he was pointing it at the ground. Selvin then raised the gun in the direction of (the Wilsons) while yelling obscenities.” And that’s when the Wilsons fled and called the sheriff’s office, according to the report

The Wilsons later told deputies they were upset and tracked down Selvin’s car because speeding vehicles “drifting” around corners had become a problem in their neighborhood of single-family homes near the northeast shore of Lake Monroe in Deltona. They could not be reached on Tuesday morning.

After deputies arrived about 9 p.m. at the Blythe Avenue residence, they saw two men go inside the garage and quickly close the door. After the deputies knocked on the door for several minutes, Selvin’s friend came out and talked to deputies. Selvin waited several minutes more before coming outside when he shined the light of a cellphone at one of the deputies.

“The bright light made it very difficult to see Selvin and difficult to make sure Selvin was not armed,” according to the report, which added that stating Selvin “was escorted to the ground” after refusing to be handcuffed pulling away from deputies.

“Sergeant Stickels and Deputy Bainbridge were able to gain control of Selvin who was yelling that he was recording the incident in his cell phone.”

Selvin was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and resisting arrest without violence. Court records show Selvin was arrested last year on felony charges of fleeing and eluding police, obstructing police and driving an unregistered vehicle.

The AK-47 pistol and its high-capacity magazine was seized from the mother of Selvin’s 1-year-old son, who told authorities she owned the weapon, the report states.

Previously convicted for armed burglary of a car, Selvin denied aiming the weapon at anyone during the confrontation, records show. He sent to the Volusia County Branch Jail.

Disney-loving Wiccan witch’s home is target of attacks May 2, 2013

New Port Richey – A Pasco County couple is living in fear after some violent  attacks at their home.

The multi-colored house is impossible to miss.
“We call it the  Glitter Dome,” said Randy Withers.
Inside is just as colorful and  includes a shrine to all things Disney.
“We absolutely adore all the fun  that goes with it, but the diversity that’s embraced is what also draws us in,”  said Kryja Withers.
But the Withers say their New Port Richey home,  designed to make people happy, is now a target, because of their Pagan faith.
“It’s a shame that this perpetuation of fear must continue,” said Kryja  Withers.
Kyrja authors children’s books featuring a bunny named Rupert  who learns about Pagan holidays.
She says along with her Wiccan beliefs,  she is a practicing elemental witch.
“We are perceived to be bad people  and hurting children, and nothing could be further from the truth,” said  Withers.

The harassment started with people yelling expletives as they drove by and  others leaning on their horns.

But last month someone fired a pellet gun at the home.

“I hear pop, pop, and something jumped off the wall at me and it turned out  to be the shards of glass from the window,” said Kyja.

And two weeks ago on the same day as the Boston bombings, two acid bombs were  tossed on their front yard.
“We couldn’t sit down to our dinner table  for one hour, not for one hour without being concerned that someone else was  coming by to do something to us,” she said.

Kyrja and Randy say they are getting help from local authorities, the New  Port Richey police department has this patrol car parked out front. But they are  also getting support from the Lady Liberty League, a national Pagan religious  freedom and civil rights support organization.

“We are assisting law enforcement in helping protect Kyrja, her family, and  home,” said Rev. Selena Fox, Executive Director of Lady Liberty League.   Many of LLL’s recommendations for the Withers have now been put into  effect.  The organization will continue to assist law enforcement and work  with Kyrja and her family to ensure their safety as the situation unfolds.”

Police have questioned some area high schoolers who may be responsible for  some of the harassment, but they are still looking for whoever crossed the line  into violence. They say it could be considered a hate crime.
“They are  really good people and they don’t deserve to be treated like this. We are going  to do whatever we can to prevent anything further from happening,” said  detective Greg Williams.

The Withers are offering a $200 reward to help catch whoever attacked their  home, but they are more interested in turning this into a opportunity to teach.
“We need to be out and say who we are. I am a witch. Come and find out  who I am,” said Kyrja.

The couple is trying raise money to pay for a security system. Here is a link  to their fundraisng site.

http://igg.me/at/kyrja/x/3136210

Here are some other links if you want to find out more about the Withers:

http://theilluminatinetwork.com/friends-of-rupert/ www.friendsofrupert.com www.facebook.com/friendsofrupert www.youtube.com/friendso www.facebook.com/theglitterdome

Read more: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_pasco/pagan-witch-says-her-home-was-targeted#ixzz2SACWHEfD

Five shot, one fatally at Crab Festival…only it wasn’t a Crab Festival April 30, 2013

On April 27, 2013 at  approximately 8:00 P.M, LCSO Deputies responded to shots fired on County Road  318 (a/k/a NE 40^th    Street) east of the City of Williston.   The subsequent investigation revealed that 5 victims had been shot.  One of the victims, BARRY BARNEY (36 years of  age), died from his injuries.  Two  females and two males were wounded during the gunfire.  The extent of their injuries is unknown at  this time.  No suspects are currently in  custody.

The shooting occurred during  a large annual gathering of people labeled as “Crab Festival”.  This event attracted an estimated crowd of  10,000 people this year.  The event is  unsanctioned and no  individuals or organizations take credit for hosting the event.  The Festival is advertised underground  primarily through social media.  While it  is called the “Crab Festival”, it is actually a series of “Hip Hop” style  street parties.  Violent incidents have  been reported at the Festival in the past.   The event draws numerous vendors and large crowds to the neighborhoods  east of Williston.  The vendors, large  crowds and numbers of vehicles force the closing of many of the roads,  including County Road 318.

A large contingent of Levy  County Deputies was working the Festival and heard the gunshots.  Deputies and Emergency Medical personnel  responded immediately on foot and in vehicles to assist the injured.  The Levy County Department of Public Safety  had pre-staged ambulances and a Medical helicopter in the area for the  Festival.  The large crowds made it  impossible for ambulances to reach the wounded.   Despite the large crowds walking and dancing in the roadway, Deputies  and EMS personnel were able to evacuate the  victims in law enforcement and private vehicles.   Barney was taken to a local hospital by air,  but died enroute to the hospital.