Drejka is going down. The prosecutor was quietly collecting his nasty little history of "confrontations" - and there will be more people coming forward...
This is from last Monday, August 13th:
Records show road rage, gun threats in stand your ground shooter’s past
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/Records-show-road-rage-gun-threats-in-stand-your-ground-shooter-s-past_170719109
A jury should never see or hear about it.
It would be immaterial and prejudicial to the case.
Just . . . Damn. Confirms my initial suspicions. This guy needs to go away for a long time. He was just looking for an excuse to shoot someone.
Thanks for posting the link with a related article.
There were several incidents described but the last one was quite interesting.
A couple of months ago, Drejka was in the same parking lot outside the same Circle A Food Store at 1201 Sunset Point Road arguing over the same handicap-reserved space, according to a man who said Drejka threatened to shoot him.
Rick Kelly, 31, told the Tampa Bay Times that Drejka circled his tanker truck and confronted him about why he parked there.
Kelly asked why it mattered. He recalled that Drejka said his mom (whom records show died in 2007) is handicapped.
The argument escalated. Drejka yelled, Kelly said, and used a racial slur. Kelly is black. Drejka is white.
Drejka, he said, threatened to shoot him. But the dispute didn’t end there.
Drejka called the Clearwater septic tank company Kelly works for to complain, telling owner John Tyler that he didn’t like the way Kelly had talked to him and that he was “lucky I didn’t blow his head off.”
Tyler, a gun owner himself, told the Times he was shocked.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry you feel that way, that you feel that it’s justified to take someone’s life over a parking space,’” he said. “That was the chilling part about it when I found out who it was with the (McGlockton) situation.”
If all of this is true then I have no problem putting this character way for a long time.
Problem is, none of this will ever be brought up at trial. Sentencing maybe, but not trail.
This is the worst case scenario that liberals bray about and even us conservatives who support the “Stand Your Ground”laws worried about.
This man was just itching to use his weapon.