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Florida man, 18, accidentally shoots woman twerking at possible house party, police say
Local10.com ^ | December 22, 2022 | WPLG Local10.com

Posted on 12/29/2022 7:26:26 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

COCOA, Fla. – An 18-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after police said he accidentally shot a woman, also 18, dancing with him at a possible Cocoa house party nearly a month ago, according to Local 10′s Orlando news partner, WKMG.

An arrest warrant affidavit shows officers responded to a shots fired call at 1044 Azalea Lane around 10:25 p.m. on Nov. 27. Upon arrival, police said they found a woman who had been shot and transported her to the hospital.

Multiple witnesses told police that the victim had been “twerking” near 18-year-old Maurqice Thomas when a firearm in his possession discharged and fired a round, striking her in the back, according to the affidavit. Another witness said the gun accidentally “just went off,” police said.

Officers said they discovered that multiple people—both juveniles and adults—had been given alcohol by the owner of the house, who was possibly hosting a party at the time.

Cell phone footage of that night shows a juvenile handling a firearm in a reckless manner around children as young as 4 years old, underage teens with alcohol and the suspect, who was wearing a black hoodie with a Glock logo.

Police said they spoke with the victim on Dec. 7 after she was released from the hospital following her multiple surgeries. She told them Thomas and another person had been playing around with the firearm when she told them to stop, according to the affidavit. Moments later, while “twerking” with Thomas, she felt the firearm and attempted to move out of the way before the round struck her, officers said.

An affidavit shows Thomas, who she said she knew since October, also sent her a message via Instagram two days after the shooting saying, “I am truly sorry!! That sh- was never intended to happen especially to you if there’s any way I can get a second chance and talk to you on the phone can you please lmk and send your number.”

As a result of the shooting, Thomas is facing charges for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, culpable negligence inflicting harm, improper use of a firearm and tampering in misdemeanor proceedings.

He is currently held in the Brevard County jail on an $89,000 bond.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: alcohol; arrest; banglist; battery; brevardcounty; cocoa; dumbassery; florida; floridaman; houseparty; negligence; police; shooting
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maurqice ................. no need to look................


41 posted on 12/29/2022 7:55:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

42 posted on 12/29/2022 7:57:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I heard this gun/rifle song sung at a Coast Guard Training Center roof top for a couple of hours in 1968. Didn’t look like any fun at all, like too often, high-porting the said rifles for half the night around the parade grounds.


43 posted on 12/29/2022 8:04:27 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: dfwgator

Possible house party? Impossible house party? Animal House™️ party?

An 18 year old dancing with a pistol. In hand, waving it around... WTF! Lemme guess a gangsta dance prop?


44 posted on 12/29/2022 8:08:11 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: faucetman

Rofl! Monty Python could have had fun with this one:

Disability agent: I’m sorry, ma’am, but your application seems incomplete.

Victim: My doctor told me I can’t twerk no more. I got shot you know. Like shot? By a gun? That’s how come I can’t twerk now.

Agent: I’m sorry about your injury, ma’am. I’ve been going over your medical records, and I can’t find anything from your doctors specifying you can’t work.

Victim: I told you! He said I can’t twerk no more. No more! Never!

Agent: Ma’am, if you can’t work, may I ask what sort of employment you were engaged in before you were injured?

Victim: I was twerking when I got shot, mister!

Agent: Uh, that’s right at the time, during, or ... ?

Victim: Yes, at the time! But my doctors say I can’t twerk no more. So I need my dis-bility, and you better give to me.

Agent: Who was your employer at the time you were injured? You see —

Victim: I don’t see nothin’ but I can’t twerk no more!

Agent: Ah, so your vision was affected. But I find nothing in your medical —

Victim: I can see just fine, but I can’t twerk! I keep telling you what my doctor done told me. He told me I can’t twerk no more!


45 posted on 12/29/2022 8:14:11 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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If that twerked in front of me, I may not fire a projectile, but I would shirley projectile vomit


46 posted on 12/29/2022 8:21:14 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He wants a second chance to get her pregnant, so that is uplifting. /s


47 posted on 12/29/2022 8:26:55 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"...when a firearm in his possession discharged and fired a round, striking her in the back..."

I'm no detective but I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a "Step 2" missing in this version.

48 posted on 12/29/2022 8:30:28 AM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let me guess. Do I have to look?


49 posted on 12/29/2022 8:33:41 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hey big guy…is that a pistol in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

Wait…that was a pistol in your pocket!


50 posted on 12/29/2022 8:37:41 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He wasn’t actually happy to see her... that was a pistol in his pocket.


51 posted on 12/29/2022 8:41:13 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: rlmorel

Good thing he was not firing birdman’s .50 nucleonic ammo!


52 posted on 12/29/2022 8:49:40 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Maurqice”

” I’m sorry, can you spell that for me please?”

M a u r q I c e

“Are you sure that’s the correct spelling?”

“How bout I put a cap in yo ass?”


53 posted on 12/29/2022 9:10:46 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Some people call me “Maurqice”, cause I speak about the Pompatus of Love.


54 posted on 12/29/2022 9:11:52 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You shot a woman and then ask her for her number? is that how dating goes these days??


55 posted on 12/29/2022 9:14:05 AM PST by Ikeon (work is the dirtiest 4 letter word you can say to someone under 40. )
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To: MikeSteelBe
Hahahahaha...

Well, this POS wearing the suit probably had his finger on the button of .50 nucleonic ammo!


56 posted on 12/29/2022 9:20:10 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: G Larry

Read the article my daughter and I are laugh our butts off, wife kept saying she did not get it. I reply, girl twerking in front of an 18 year old male and his gun went off prematurely.” Daughter laughing said “Dad stop it, I am eating.” Wife says, “what’s so funny.” Tried numerous way to explain without being graphic at the dinner table, just a blank stare. I guess all the years of my daughter and I watching British comedy made the innuendo clear to us.


57 posted on 12/29/2022 9:52:00 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Calls for “common sense arse control” in 3-2-...


58 posted on 12/29/2022 10:02:56 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That guy again! He’s always in some kinda mess!


59 posted on 12/29/2022 10:13:06 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: circlecity

He suffered from premature discharge of his weapon.

It happens, I guess.


60 posted on 12/29/2022 10:19:25 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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