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Video shows deadly shooting over parking spot at Clearwater convenience store
ABC Action News ^ | 7/23/2018 | WFTS Webteam, Michael Paluska, Adam Winer

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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To: simpson96
2nd degree homicide.
141 posted on 07/24/2018 9:14:22 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: Mr Rogers

So when the guy knocks you down, and your dizzy from the vicious assault, and he backs up to get a running start for a vicious head kick, or moves to circle you to slam you head from behind, you wouldn’t shoot. Very Good. Good for you.


142 posted on 07/24/2018 9:14:45 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Mr Rogers

Apparently you have never seen a fight.

I saw a guy get sucker punched. His glasses driven into his face, a bloody mess. The attacker then backed off, circled, looking for the second shot to the face, and then took it, smashing his nose and crushing it to the side of his face. You could hear the bones in his face fracture. It was one of the most brutal things I have ever seen in my life.

You have no clue how these attacks can play out.


143 posted on 07/24/2018 9:24:48 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: wardaddy
Your 61: I've been in a similar situation sitting on the ground, where I had to draw my weapon . As soon as it came out, the perpetrator withdrew. No one was shot, thank God.
144 posted on 07/24/2018 9:30:23 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: semaj
2nd degree homicide.

What did the police chief say?

145 posted on 07/24/2018 9:31:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: kiryandil

Good catch on the auto spell error. Can you proof read my other comments, please? I’ll send them to blackberry and credit you. Thanks.


146 posted on 07/24/2018 9:31:44 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER
The attacker may not have turned to exit the fight until after the shot was fired. But really, the fight was on after the initial assault. Asking someone to move their car shouldn’t have you on the ground, waiting for a kick in the face to knock your teeth out.

Some seem to suggest that even if the fella's teeth were splayed all over the ground from the kick that the thug was clearly setting up for, and the girlfriend's high heel was grinding into his right eye while he lay there choking on his own blood, that he had no right to shoot as long as the thugs were taking a step back when they saw the gun...

147 posted on 07/24/2018 9:35:25 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: 1Old Pro

When he gets in town, Al Sharpton could probably get this up to first degree, premeditated murder.


148 posted on 07/24/2018 9:37:47 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER
When he gets in town, Al Sharpton could probably get this up to first degree, premeditated murder.

And Eric Holder would be starting a DOJ investigation.....ah the memories of a corrupt racist administration.

149 posted on 07/24/2018 9:41:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Iscool
Drejka pulled into the parking lot of the store to pick a fight.

Maybe a beat-down would have learned the gun-toting little pr*ck.

Instead, the Left gets to gleefully smear us law-abiding gun owners over this loose cannon's cr@p.

150 posted on 07/24/2018 9:42:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil; Pelham

Anybody quotes Captain Redlegs

Well I think you know where I’m headed


151 posted on 07/24/2018 9:45:10 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: Iscool

... yes, waiting for, and then enduring the destruction of the face and brain, it’s no justification to get all violent. Thats just mean.


152 posted on 07/24/2018 9:46:42 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: 1Old Pro
What did the police chief say?"

With or without a full investigation?

153 posted on 07/24/2018 9:48:48 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: PA-RIVER

“You have no clue how these attacks can play out.”

What was missing in your account? Where the guy attacked pulled a gun and the other guy started backing off! Watch the video. The black guy was NOT trying to continue the fight.

I’ve pulled a gun. I didn’t shoot immediately, and ended up walking away. But then, I’ve never gone looking for a fight. Unlike the white butthead in this.


154 posted on 07/24/2018 9:49:00 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: PA-RIVER

“450 pounds of stompy foot is some deadly force.”

Except it wasn’t being used. By your standard, ANY big guy could be shot.


155 posted on 07/24/2018 9:50:12 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: semaj
With or without a full investigation?

Just based on the information he had as someone who know more than us?

156 posted on 07/24/2018 9:50:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Mr Rogers

That last line of yours is precisely the point

I never knew so many folks use see CCW as such an end all just over an ass whipping

And that wasn’t even an ass whipping

We have no way of knowing but in frontier days when a lot of people carried for protection and hunting etc was it acceptable to pull your pistol or lever action rifle and kill someone for pushing you down

Would the authorities rule a justifiable kill?

I have watched that video over and over

And now we find out this guy was reported brandishing over a moving traffic dispute recently and reported to the cops

I wonder how he feels now..
He got his kill

One note overlooked to a degree here

He shot thst man right in front of his five year old.....

I’ve pulled my gun in my life several times actually both in hot zones and in the USA

I never fired it here.....but they knew I would so they retreated

When I first came here I’d watch folks say if you pull your guns out must use it...that Is poppycock


157 posted on 07/24/2018 10:00:45 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: simpson96

“Markeis McGlockton, of Clearwater, was inside the store to buy his little boy a candy bar”

and

“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”

They left out “It was a dark and stormy night.”


158 posted on 07/24/2018 10:01:01 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Mr Rogers

Correct. Any big guy who slams a smaller man into the ground, initiating the violence, he is risking his life. Period. Because people have been killed by getting slammed into the ground, hitting their head. Its an act of violence, and an indication that more is going to follow.

Next time a cop pulls you over, get out of the car and slam him into the ground and see what happens. Act surprised when he slams 6 bullets into your chest.


159 posted on 07/24/2018 10:01:49 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: 1Old Pro

At this point in time, and since he wasn’t an eyewitness, he knows just as much as you or I.


160 posted on 07/24/2018 10:07:25 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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