A man led Citrus county sheriff’s deputies on a high speed chase, dumping bags of fentanyl out the window of the car as he went. He finally wrecked the car in neighboring Marion county when he hit a telephone pole. He bailed out of the vehicle with a slug rifle. Police shot him. Of course a bystander caught the end on video.
The man’s name was Skyler Dan Wentworth, DOB 2/16/1990. His publicly available criminal record goes back to March of 2007, when he was arrested for felony burglary and petit theft (second offense), meaning of course that there are juvenile convictions that we can’t see. That case was dropped when the main witness, the victim, refused to testify.
The decedent’s background
He was arrested for a total of 3 felonies and 2 misdemeanors before his 18th birthday. By the time trial concluded on the felonies, it was 2012. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail on the second of them, 9 months for the third. That’s important because, as a convicted felon, he couldn’t possess a firearm or ammunition.
In all, he has a total of 15 felony cases, involving dozens of criminal violations, and 9 different misdemeanor cases. His driver’s license has been suspended multiple times, but he keeps getting caught driving anyway. By 2018, he had advanced to possession of firearms by a felon, charges related to drug dealing, illegally carrying a concealed weapon, and had been convicted multiple times for fleeing police and getting in accidents that injured innocents who just happened to be in his way. A real pillar of the community.
This choirboy’s mother appeared on TV, demanding to know why police didn’t just “taser” him. “I don’t understand,” she said. “Why couldn’t they have Tased him? Why shoot him?” That isn’t how a Taser works, as my readers all know.
I couldn’t find a copy of the raw video, and I hate using media provided video because it is always edited and manipulated to distort what actually happened, but in this case, you can see 43 seconds into the video here that the man is on his knees with both hands on his head before dropping one hand down to what appears to be a rifle clung across his chest.
Looks like a good shoot, but I will post more on this if I find anything.
3 Comments
County Cork · December 1, 2023 at 1:07 pm
Couldn’t possess? Just like everything else all you need is the money.
Comrade Lefty is so cute in its if I believe hard enough it will make it so.
Reality free zone signs won’t make it come to pass.
Divemedic · December 1, 2023 at 1:29 pm
You know that we are referring to legally. As a convicted felon, it is illegal for him to have a firearm or ammunition.
John in Indy · December 2, 2023 at 12:14 am
The County used to be Rebel Cork.
As much as I try, I can’t find the sarcasm in County Corks’ screed.
I do agree with you that if gun control laws ever worked, or that criminals obeyed laws, that he wouldn’t have had his illegal drugs and guns.
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