“The shooter was a guy who repeatedly made a pain in the ass of himself by being an irritating busybody and he carried a gun.”
There was at least one prior similar incident.
A few months ago, according to the Tampa Bay Times, Rick Kelly parked his tanker truck in the same handicapped spot and said he was confronted by Drejka.
Drejka walked around his truck, looking for handicap decals, then demanded to know why Kelly had parked there, the trucker told the Tampa Bay Times. At one point Drejka threatened to shoot Kelly.
“It’s a repeat. It happened to me the first time. The second time it’s happening, someone’s life got taken,” Kelly told the Tampa Bay Times. “He provoked that.”
That story is more interesting for what you don’t know.
The trucker clearly parked illegally.
Drejka researched the situation, and then asked the man why he parked in the handicapped space.
Then the NEXT thing we are told is “at some point”. What happened before that? I presume the trucker did not react well to being told where to park, and probably got rather beligerant. Maybe the trucker said he was going to pound the guy, and THAT is why Grejko “threatened to shoot him”.
I doubt Grejko said “if you don’t move your truck, I’m going to shoot you”. Because if he had, THAT’s what the trucker would have told you.
So all we really have in this case is a story from one side about how a guy with a gun warned him that some action on his part might lead to getting shot.
It seems like a lot of people here are arguing that Grejko should have, in fact, told the dead guy that if he didn’t stop, he’d get shot.