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Second Escambia Shopping Center Shooting In Less Than A Week
May 17, 2011
For the second time in less than a week, a shopping center in Escambia County has left a person injured and landed someone behind bars — both of the incidents over a female.
About 2:20 Saturday afternoon, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting in a shopping center on Chiefs Way in Warrington where Kenneth Andrews, 27, had been shot in the shoulder. He was transported to a Pensacola hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Payton L Roberts, 22, fled the scene of the shooting, according to deputies, and was later found hiding in the closet of a home on Chestnut Street. The weapon believed to have been used in the shooting was found in the water tank of a toilet. Roberts was charged with aggravated battery, discharging a firearm in public and firing a public missile into an occupied dwelling for the shooting. He was also charged with armed burglary, trespassing and resisting arrest for the incident on Chestnut Street.
One of the shots fire by Roberts shattered a window at the St Vincent De Paul Thrift Store with people inside, but no one was injured.
On Sunday, May 8, Gary Winston Smith, 57, of Rockaway Creek Road, Atmore, was arrested at Piggly Wiggly in Davisville and charged with aggravated battery in connection with the shooting of Garland Rodney Johnson, 45, of the 2400 block of West Highway 4. Smith fired a single round at Johnson as he approached in the store parking lot.
Pictured top: A North Escambia man was shot just outside the Piggly Wiggly on Highway 97 in Davisville on May 8. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Second Escambia Shopping Center Shooting In Less Than A Week”
Someone’s tired of your company? Move on, don’t drag it out. There are other fish in the sea. Hanging on once someone wants to call it quits is immature, a waste of your lifetime minutes and apparently dangerous. Very, very few people are worth spending hard-earned bail money or jail time on and only the innocent ones being harmed are worth dying for. Besides, do you really want her back if she has deliberately chosen to leave you for him? She left you once; she’ll leave you again. Especially if you’re in jail or dead.
“The weapon believed to have been used in the shooting was found in the water tank of a toilet.”
Yeah, the cops will never find it there.
“Payton L Roberts, 22, fled the scene of the shooting, according to deputies, and was later found hiding in the closet”
little kids hide in closets, this speaks volumes about the shooter. he is just a little boy! (not in age, but mentality) responsible, mature, grown men do not have shoot outs over women.
this is more senseless violence. The offenders are getting younger as well.