Another reason Democomms are falling behind in Florida votes
Posted on 12/27/2024 2:09:52 PM PST by lowbridge
A suspected home invasion in Bradenton turned fatal late Thursday night after the homeowner confronted two intruders and shot one of them, the sheriff’s office said. Just after 9 p.m., deputies say two masked men were caught on the homeowner’s video surveillance entering the back of a house on the 6700 block of Hickory Hammock Circle in the River Club community.
“This is the state of Florida. If you want to break into someone’s home, you should expect to be shot,” Sheriff Rick Wells said at a press conference Friday morning.
The homeowner, who was inside at the time, fired multiple shots from a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol, striking one of the alleged intruders, according to a news release. The other suspect fled on foot, deputies say.
The couple had been enjoying their night at home when the husband got the alert from the home security cameras and told his wife to get to a “safe place” before grabbing his firearm and walking into a bedroom where he was “immediately” confronted by one of the masked invaders already inside his home, Wells said.
Wells said the other masked invader, who was still climbing through the window, quickly backed out of the house and ran away.
The injured man was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, where he died from his injuries at around 7 a.m. Friday morning, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies say they tracked the second alleged intruder with the help of K9 units and arrested him a few blocks away. The man was taken to a local hospital for minor injuries from a K9 bite and has since been released, according to the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office identified the arrested suspect as 39-year-old Michel Soto-Mella and confirmed he was from Chile Friday afternoon.
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If we had a liberal governor here in FL instead of De Santis, they’d be trying to turn the homeowner into the next Daniel Penny.
“This is the state of Florida. If you want to break into someone’s home, you should expect to be shot,” Sheriff Rick Wells said at a press conference Friday morning.
The sheriff’s office identified the arrested suspect as 39-year-old Michel Soto-Mella and confirmed he was from Chile Friday afternoon.
Ain't cultural enrichment grand?
“minor injuries” sounds like the K9 needs some retraining. Probably wasn’t a Malinois.
Apparently thieves coming up from Chile is now a ‘thing’. The hit a few, what they assume are, nice places and then travel hundreds of miles which helps them avoid arrest. Wonder if Florida has a felony murder statute.
Go Florida man!
Still, it sent him to the hospital with injuries. Not bad for a chihuahua.
“Crime tourism” in Florida is the equivalent of a stay at a bedbug-infested roach motel at a dry lake.
I think he said this before (or someone like him did). Love hearing it.
“This is the state of Florida. If you want to break into someone’s home, you should expect to be shot,” Sheriff Rick Wells said at a press conference Friday morning.
Also love to hear the dog took a bite out of crime.
“The man was taken to a local hospital for minor injuries from a K9 bite and has since been released.”
Good dog. Good dog. 🐕
Immigrants doing the crime Americans just won’t do. /s
“... in Florida. If you want to break into someone’s home, you should expect to be shot,”
I remember when the Brady Center for gun control said Florida would be ripe for Gun Control due to all the NYers moving there. That was in the mid 1980s.
Grady Judd is the originator of this type of comment. Dude is as solid an LEO as they come.
Polk County, also in Florida.
“… and has since been released, according to the sheriff’s office.”
I hope that means that he was released from the hospital, but he is now in police custody.
The dead guy was from Mexico, served a few months in jail in Illinois for home burglary, and released, but not given to ICE for deportation.
Thanks, SloJo and Mayorkas.
We need more like him.
fight crime... shoot back...
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