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Two Escambia County, Alabama, Men Charged In Downtown Pensacola Shooting
April 27, 2021
Two Escambia County, Alabama, men have been charged in connection with a shots fired incident about 2 a.m. Saturday in front of a downtown Pensacola restaurant.
Nicholas Devon Hudson, 27, of Atmore was arrested at the scene and charged with discharging a firearm in a public place, carrying a concealed weapon and resisting an officer. He was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $7,000 bond.
Robert Willis McCaskill, 51, of Brewton, fled and was arrested Monday in Escambia County, Alabama, and will be extradited to Escambia County, Florida, to face charges of aggravated assault, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, and criminal mischief.
Pensacola Police said McCaskill was inside his vehicle when he shot at Hudson as he walked in front of the Jordan Valley Restaurant. Hudson returned fire, according to PPD.
The restaurant was hit by the gunfire, damaging the front door. There were no injuries reported.
According to reports, the incident was witnessed by a
Pictured above: Suspects Nicholas Hudson (left) and Robert Willis McCaskill.
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17 Responses to “Two Escambia County, Alabama, Men Charged In Downtown Pensacola Shooting”
We’re having to much gun violence here in Pensacola/Escambia County Florida. Please stay in Escambia County Alabama with that nonsense mane.If you all don’t know how to act downtown,stay from down here Mane. Ok..Mane!
let ‘em stand their ground in a prison yard….
these two shoot so bad that they would qualify as imperial storm troopers on star wars!!!!!
It’s terrifying how untrained and bad these guys are at shooting. 10 feet away and neither one could hit anything. More of a danger to everyone around them.
Mr. Paine, Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law states, “A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
Unless Hudson was doing something illegal or had no right to be “in front of he Jordan Valley Restaurant,” it sure sounds like stand your ground to me.
I presume he had no permit for the handgun, though, else one of the charges probably would not exist. That first one, though, “discharging a firearm in a public place,” seems to be a bit of a stretch seein’s as how, according to the story, Hudson was mindin’ his own business and got shot at by McCaskill. Seems Hudson had a right to defend himself with whatever means he felt were necessary under the circumstances. I’d have returned fire, as well.
Stand your ground my butt two armed men running around in the public .when are we going to say what it is it’s not gun control it’s people control media needs to start saying what it is both of these men no criminals put others life at risk and should pay for it period.
Somewhere in the small print you will find drug deals I suspect.
@Thomas Paine: Only because the person fired at was “illegally carrying” a firearm at the time of the attack.
Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law states, “A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
There used to be a time when downtown was somewhat safe to be at night, even early morning.
Now, we have the “element” coming in and ruining everything for the rest of us.
I bet those folks who brought into Studer’s Southtowne Apartments, are as happy as clams.
Put them both in a cell together. They will learn to get along.
As we loosen restrictions on gun control, we re-learn why gun control was imposed in the first place. The wild west taught us lessons we’ve forgotten: responsible restrictions are always required by the masses. BTW, stray bullets know not for whom they were intended.
@TP, man shoots at another man, man being shot at has the right to return fire.
Thomas Paine
Sure is a SYG case. you shoot at me first as I am walking, i have the right to return fire. Read the law.
@JTV
Absolutely nothing in the story would even hint at this being a stand-your-ground situation.
I guess, to each other, their lives did not matter.
We have become the Wild Wild West.
Sounds like a stand your ground situation.