Walnut Hill Man Gets Over 7 Years In State Prison For 2021 Shots Fired Incident

July 28, 2023

A Walnut Hill man has been sentenced to prison for a 2021 shots fired incident in Pensacola.

Robert Douglas Green, 36, pleaded no contest and was found guilty this week of multiple counts of felony aggravated assault, deadly missiles, felony criminal mischief, and misdemeanor criminal mischief.

He was sentenced by Judge Coleman to 86.55 months (just over seven years and two months) in state prison, with credit for 728 days service while awaiting trial.

On July 7, 2021, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported shots fired incident at the Avery Street Grocery where deputies found  9 mm shell casings in the road and a Toyota with a shattered window. The clerk stated she was in the back room of the store when she heard multiple gunshots. She walked toward the front where she observed a female pulling and banging at the door. She watched surveillance of Green running toward an abandoned house adjacent to the store, the report states.

The victim told the ECSO that Green pulled up in a U-Haul and told her to get in with him, but she ran. When she refused to get in the U-Haul,  Green pointed a handgun at her and pulled the trigger, according to the arrest report.

The report states the woman told deputies that she had only known Green for three weeks and “stopped talking to him because he’s crazy”.

The store was hit by gunfire, as was the clerk’s Toyota and a second vehicle, according to the ECSO.

Green remained in the Escambia County Jail without bond Friday morning.

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One Response to “Walnut Hill Man Gets Over 7 Years In State Prison For 2021 Shots Fired Incident”

  1. Bill T on July 28th, 2023 8:01 am

    Unfortunately mental illness is everywhere and the problem is dealing with it in the right way!!!!!!!

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