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ECSO: Girlfriend Comes Home To Find Another Woman Cooking Man Dinner; He Opened Fire With AK-47.
April 17, 2020
A McDavid man is facing felony charges after allegedly opening fire at his live-in girlfriend and a woman that was at his home on South Highway 99 to cook dinner.
John Hillman Dennis, 32, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol.
Dennis was at his home with a woman that he had just met the day before that was going to cook him dinner and was cleaning the kitchen, according to an arrest report. The woman that he had been living with for the past year and a half arrived and got into an argument with him, the report states.
The women said they attempted to flee together when Dennis went inside to get a gun. He exited the house, told the women to leave and opened fire with an AK-47, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The women fled without injury in a pickup truck.
Deputies arrived on scene and found Dennis sitting in a chair on his front porch with a handgun in his waistband and an empty half gallon of a Fireball Whiskey on the ground by the porch steps. Dennis was taken into custody at gunpoint without further incident.
The arrest report states an AK-47 rifle was on the porch in front of Dennis’ chair, along with multiple shell casings.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office seized multiple weapons including the AK-47, two semi-automatic rifles, a pump shotgun, a semi-automatic handgun, multiple magazines and over 200 rounds of ammunition.
He remained in the Escambia County Jail Friday morning with bond set at $11,000.
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23 Responses to “ECSO: Girlfriend Comes Home To Find Another Woman Cooking Man Dinner; He Opened Fire With AK-47.”
REGARDING:
“why arrest him. Is this not stand your ground state?? Doesn’t he have a right to bear arms?”
Yes, Florida is a Stand-Your-Ground state.
Stand Your Ground means you have no duty to retreat if you are threatened or attacked. It does not mean you are free to shoot the cook if the eggs are burned or to shoot anyone who argues with you. These were his guests, not burglars.
Add the fact that he was shooting at them as they fled and even the threat of food poisoning has been removed. There is no right to gun down people in cold blood.
Add the fact that he must be a pitiful shot and you have further grounds for arrest. If he can’t hit his target, he is apt to hit someone else.
David for scrambled eggs
yes, if anyone wants to come cook for me, that would be alright, lol
Why take his gun…why arrest him. Is this not stand your ground state?? Doesn’t he have a right to hear arms? Why is his 2nd amendment being taken??
Is he the best and only man in McDavid?????
Ladies, please get some standards in your life. You’ll get exactly what you put up with. To the girlfriend, that is not love. He does not love you. He is a moron. I’m sure you can do better. All involved need Jesus.
Never heard of a fireball whiskey before, but it must be powerful. To have another woman cooking dinner at your house when you have a live-in girlfriend – boy that’s brave!
I’m support the 2nd Amendment but when you do something this insane you should forever lose the right to own any guns.
Folks like him give guns & fireball a bad name.
A GALLON OF FIREBALL?!?!?! Lort Jesus!
Fireball & AK-47s. God bless America.
A guy in Navarre basically did the same thing but actually shot someone and got charged with a misdemeanor???
MERCA
Ladies, he is the only guy you could find? You two better up your standards.
I’ve cooked some bad meals in my life, but I’ve not been shot over it…yet????
“Funny how chicks show up to cook dinner when they hear you got your stimulus money “
All this and only $11,000.00 bond? The problem is with our judicial system that lets criminals basically walk free. At least, Hopefully, he won’t get his guns back. But don’t bet on it.
As they were getting away in the truck the women became best friends.
She must not be a very good cook
guess he changed his mind about supper.
Oh yes, guns are great things to have, especially AK-47’s. Especially when drunk. When will women learn, to be independent, strong and able. Why mess with a drunk.
Ladies,
If you’re reading this, you’re more than welcome to come over and cook me dinner anytime.
Sincerely,
Stephen
Must have been ticked off about not getting dinner…no worries you get 3 squares a day in prison
That FIREBALL gets me everytime too!!! It goes down so smooth you can drink a while bottle EASLY…Last time I went on a FIREBALL bender, I drank 3 pints and woke up in the bed the next day and had no clue how I got there…It was ugly@