This critter killed his grandparents.
He shot the grandmother first. When the grandfather ran next door for help, this asshole followed and fired six times through the neighbors’ door, killing his grandfather and critically injuring a 25 year old granddaughter of the neighbors.
He was charged with two counts of 2nd Degree Murder, one count of Attempted 2nd Degree Murder, and Shooting into an Occupied Residence.
The judge says he can get up to life in prison. Florida has a 10-20-life law, which says using a firearm in the commission of a felony gets you a MINIMUM sentence of 10 years, firing the gun a minimum of 20, and killing someone gets you life. This asshat should be looking at a minimum of three life sentences. They should also tack on an attempted manslaughter charge againt him for each person who was in the house when he fired into it.
Additionally, I can see 2nd Degree Murder for the grandmother, but chasing the grandfather down and shooting him through a door is definitely premeditation.
In all, I count 5 life sentences plus another 100 years. I’m sick of courts coddling these assholes while others sat in a DC jail for years without charges, after the cops invited them into the building.
15 Comments
Steve S6 · July 27, 2025 at 6:15 am
Florida still has capital punishment available too. Or we should build no frills (cheaper to maintain) prisons. I’d only consider capital punishment in slam dunk cases with incontrovertible evidence.
Divemedic · July 27, 2025 at 8:29 am
I remain opposed to the death penalty, for no other reason than I don’t trust government employed prosecutors. See the Duke Lacrosse case.
Grumpy51 · July 27, 2025 at 6:39 am
Should be executed. I fought for decades to have the name changed to “Victim Justice”…… couldn’t give two shiites about criminals. In TX, the CJ (criminal justice) system is big business.
SMO – the court system should be designed for one thing – establishing guilt. We have video evidence (phone video evidence of the guy selling little boys for sex in Houston Galleria several years back), the only job for court is to establish “yep, that’s you” then move on to sentencing. I don’t care about your childhood, your mental state.
On the face of reporting, the POS in original article is guilty. Then WHY am I the victim of armed robbery keeping this POS alive???
Divemedic · July 27, 2025 at 8:30 am
I remain opposed to the death penalty, for no other reason than I don’t trust government employed prosecutors. See the Duke Lacrosse case.
Craig · July 27, 2025 at 6:44 am
No life sentence. Death sentence. There have been problems with the death penalty and will always be, but some cases are obvious and without any doubt. Firing squad and be done with it.
Divemedic · July 27, 2025 at 8:30 am
I remain opposed to the death penalty, for no other reason than I don’t trust government employed prosecutors. See the Duke Lacrosse case.
Tom235 · July 27, 2025 at 7:16 am
I see “Why is he still alive?”
oldvet50 · July 27, 2025 at 7:32 am
I disagree. Why should we have to house, feed and clothe this animal? He should be put to death in a most extreme manner. They say the death penalty is not a deterrent – well, no, not the way we’ve been doing it. It should be swift, public and painful.
Divemedic · July 27, 2025 at 8:30 am
I remain opposed to the death penalty, for no other reason than I don’t trust government employed prosecutors. See the Duke Lacrosse case.
It's just Boris · July 27, 2025 at 7:51 am
At that point just put him down.
Divemedic · July 27, 2025 at 8:30 am
I remain opposed to the death penalty, for no other reason than I don’t trust government employed prosecutors. See the Duke Lacrosse case.
Joe Blow · July 27, 2025 at 8:10 am
There is but one solution.
Everyone knows it.
Nobody will say it.
But that doesn’t change the fact, there is but one solution.
Divemedic · July 27, 2025 at 8:33 am
Again, I don’t trust prosecutors to tell the truth in death penalty cases. Recall that in the Duke Lacrosse case, the prosecutor was in possession of DNA test results showing that the accused men were innocent. He never disclosed this exculpatory evidence to the defense.
Noway2 · July 27, 2025 at 9:18 am
For which he should have received the punishment he was trying to met out.
Funny coincidence, in my greater work social circles, there is. Guy I know whose last name is Nifong. I’ve always wondered if they were related. Yes, this is NC.
GuardDuck · July 27, 2025 at 9:52 am
I don’t disagree with your distrust of prosecutors.
A general distrust of all government is well earned.
Seems to me that we have failed in giving government people their well earned feedback for such examples of trust breaking and have therefore created more examples of same.
Tar, feathers, ropes, and lampposts are entirely underutilized by our society to our own detriment.