Posted on 07/24/2018 6:02:02 AM PDT by simpson96
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Hundreds from around Tampa Bay marched with the family of the Clearwater man fatally shot over a parking spot.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri says the shooting was justified under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. The deadly shooting at a convenience store in unincorporated Clearwater occurred Thursday.
Sgt. Spencer Gross of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office tells ABC Action News the shooting stemmed from an argument over a parking spot.
Deputies said Michael Drejka, of Clearwater, confronted a woman who parked in a handicapped parking space outside the Circle A Food Store on Sunset Point Road.
Witnesses told deputies the two were arguing because Drejka was upset the woman parked there even though she wasn't handicapped. The woman's boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, of Clearwater, was inside the store to buy his little boy a candy bar, according to the store owner.
McGlockton exited the store to defend his girlfriend and shoved Drejka to the ground.
Drejka responded by taking out a pistol and shooting McGlockton in the chest. McGlockton ran back into the store where his five-year-old son was standing at the front door, watching the entire incident happen right before his eyes. McGlockton fell to the ground inside of the store and he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Investigators say multiple people witnessed the shooting and called 911.
Drejka is a legal concealed weapons permit holder and will not be charged because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
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If the first shot occurred at the end of the clip in #69, the victim was clearly turning away from the shooter. The bullet path should show an entry wound on the left side or left front-side of the body with a path diagonally through the body with a possible exit wound in the right side or right rear-side of the victim.
If the victim was still hovering over the shooter after the attack, then there would be no question that the shooting was justified. The threat would have be reasonably eminent and the shooter wouldn't have to wait for the attacker to begin kicking him or trying to curb-stomp him. However, the attacker clearly broke off the attack and the shooter didn't fire immediately upon pulling his gun.
Did the shooter have sufficient time to realize that the victim was apparently breaking off the attack? My guess is that a jury will probably have to make the ultimate call on this question.
I'm still on George Zimmerman's side.
Tray-Tray was a REAL feral, and deserved every cap in his feral @ss that he got.
Mike Drejka seems to have invisible "no-go zones" scattered about him like minefields.
“another choir boy?”
He’s probably singing a different tune now, wherever he is.
Thanks for the explanation. :-)
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Since Zero STARTED getting them killed.
Good,because he started his anti-cop nonsense early into his first term saying,”The Cambridge police acted stupidly.”
I detest Obama!
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From the article, Drejka seems to be a loony-tune. That said, what he received was not a “shove” as I define the word. I saw it more as an aggressive, blind side, attack. The boyfriend could have, should have, verbally warned Drejka to back off and then they both go about their business. The boyfriend chose poorly. By physically and without warning assaulting Dejeka, the boyfriend gave Drejka the Stand Your Ground defense. I’m not defending Drejka’s killing the man; I’m saying I understand how it could happen. And if I”m on the jury, I would not vote to convict.
Nobody looks good here. The shooter goes around habitually looking for trouble. The girlfriend illegally parked in a handicapped space then argued about it when it was pointed out. The deceased turned a mere verbal argument into a physical confrontation.”””
SORRY- IMO, the people who park in handicapped spaces are the ones looking for trouble. They finally raised the fine in Nevada from $25 to $250 because no one paid any attention. It is still a problem. I am NOT handicapped, nor do I have to use those spaces.
It is just plain rude to take a space you are not entitled to.
It's a free country.
Pro tip: If you ever visit Clearwater, FL - make sure you don't trespass on one of Mike Drejka's invisible "trigger spaces"...
A woman was killed yesterday after she was shoved to the ground/sidewalk. She received a blow to her head and suffered a fatal brain injury. A “shove” isn’t as benign as it may sound.
I agree. The black guy was backing up. There was no aggression. The pistol the guy pulled stopped it all. He shot anyway. This was murder. I think a jury would agree.
As we used to say: "Death for traffic tickets!!!"
Seriously. We used to say that in jest when I was younger. 
Yes he was retreating.
He certainly has one ugly arrest on his record.
The one that should be catching all the grief in this incident is the girlfriend. She started the whole episode by parking in the handicapped spot. She apparently escalated the incident verbally before getting out of the car to get in the shooter's face. She could have calmed this whole situation down.
Put yourself in the victim's position for a second. You're in the store and you come out to see your angry girlfriend in an loud argument with angry man an arm's-length away from her. The best response would be grab your girlfriend and move her away, the next to get between them, and the least desirable response to push the guy away to make space between the two. He could have chosen better but I think most men's first response would be to protect their girlfriend. No matter how wrong my girlfriend might be, I'm not going to let some guy get physical with her. The whole time he's probably thinking "what's this b*tch got me into now?"
Like almost all incidents of this sort, there is a whole cascade of bad decisions leading to the regrettable outcome. The real cause of this situation appears to be the one who is getting none of the blame - the girlfriend. She has as much blood on her hands as the shooter or the victim.
Got to give the dead guy some credit, he knocked him down good, a great violent opening attack to get “Mr. Parky monitor” in position for the crippling head stomping finish. When the girl gets out of the car and joins in, you have a total of 450 pounds of bone pulverizing stompy foot on his face, sure to make “Mr. Parky Monitor” eligible to use the parking spot for the rest of his life, with some one else capable of driving of course after his brain injury.
450 pounds of stompy foot is some deadly force. With the muscle behind it, Like getting smashed with 1000 pounds of bone crushing force with each stomp. Getting him in position to deliver it, flawlessly executed with the brilliant speed and brutal force of the initial attack.
I give him 10 points to 0 for round 1, he clearly takes it. Round 2, “Mr Parky Monitor” gets the reversal and wins the brawl with flawless preparation and technique for avoiding the “wheelchair bound” finish he was about to experience for daring to talk to a stranger in public.
Not in this case apparently. My apologies.
This whole scene is so unfortunate but it does not happen if every parking spot is considered free and equal.”””
Considering how many military persons have come back from recent war zones with missing limbs, especially legs from IED’s, I would never complain about handicapped parking spaces.
No doubt the Sherriff has cleaned up a few of the bloodied “stompy foot” victims in the past, and issued the call to the rescue squad to send the victim to the hospital to reconstruct the victims skull and get the brain swelling down so they can eat oatmeal through a straw for the next 30 years.
Since handicapped spaces are required for retail, why not fine people based upon parking there without a handicapped placard & use the video from the security cameras to give them the ticket?
Not any different from red light tickets, is it?
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