Florida male points gun at 4 in Mexican eatery amid bill dispute — including worker's son, 16. Technology assists in arrest.



Police in Ormond Beach, Florida, said a party of four had been dining at the Fresh Guacamole Tequila & Bar Mexican Grill on West Granada Boulevard on May 6 and were displeased with the bill, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.

Soon an argument erupted with the restaurant staff, the paper said, adding that an arrest report states that one of the employees actually tried to de-escalate the tense situation by telling the customers they could leave without paying the bill.

The suspect 'brandished a firearm toward restaurant staff, including a juvenile, during an altercation.'

Apparently, that wasn't good enough.

Amid the dustup, a woman with the dissatisfied group started banging on the plexiglass that protects the cashier, the News-Journal said.

What's more, she managed to get past the plexiglass and pushed toward four employees — one of them being the 16-year-old son of one of the workers, police told the paper.

Soon, the irate female started yelling in the face of one of the employees, and the 16-year-old boy stepped up to defend his dad, police told the News-Journal.

It was at that moment that a male was seen on surveillance video reaching into a bag, pulling out a silver handgun, and pointing it at the four employees — including the 16-year-old boy — police added to the paper.

With that, the woman pushed the male who pointed the gun out of the restaurant, and they departed, police told the News-Journal.

Then, cops got to work over the next month, the paper said, and police said they verified through photo lineups and facial recognition technology from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office that 25-year-old Anthony Rodriguez of Daytona Beach was the male seen pulling the gun on the restaurant's employees.

Police on June 3 posted a wanted notice on Facebook asking for the public's help in locating Rodriguez.

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Image source: Ormond Beach (Fla.) Police Department

Police said in its public notice that an investigation determined Rodriguez "brandished a firearm toward restaurant staff, including a juvenile, during an altercation. No injuries were reported." Police asked for help and tips in order to locate Rodriguez, who had a felony arrest warrant for four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Police told Blaze News that in their above notice, the right-hand photo is a surveillance image while the left-hand photo is a previous mug shot of Rodriquez.

By the afternoon of June 5, police issued an update saying Rodriguez turned himself in and was taken into custody. Jail records indicate Rodriguez was booked on the evening of June 5 and released the next day. Jail records showed his cash bond amount for each count was $7,500 — or $30,000 total.

Anything else?

Just last weekend, Blaze News reported about another Florida restaurant dispute that turned into a dangerous encounter.

Police in Orlando said a male standing 6'2'' and weighing 280 pounds choked a cop after refusing to pay a $50.50 restaurant tab.

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Image source: Orange County (Fla.) Jail

After being asked to pay up, 22-year-old Daniel Robinson allegedly shoved the female owner of the pizza joint and departed, WOFL-TV reported. Officers tracked down Robinson and tried to arrest him — and then one officer stared hollering, “He’s choking me," WFTV-TV reported.

Another officer said he punched Robinson in the face until the choking stopped, WFTV said, adding that police also maced the suspect. Police said when medical personnel arrived, Robinson spat in an officer’s face amid an attempt to restrain him on a stretcher, WOFL reported. Robinson was booked into jail and was facing multiple charges, including attempted homicide of a law enforcement officer, WOFL said.

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Juvenile fatally shoots pair of armed home intruders, authorities say



A juvenile fatally shot a pair of armed home intruders over the weekend, the Kentucky State Police said.

State police said they received a call just before 4:30 a.m. Saturday about a shooting in Manchester, which is about 170 miles southeast of Louisville.

'Hope the kid doesn’t have guilt or any kind of trauma. They got what they deserved.'

Manchester police responded to the scene and found two individuals who had been shot, state police said, adding that Manchester police requested the investigative help of state police in regard to the shooting.

Arriving troopers determined that the two males found shot had forcibly entered a residence with the intention of stealing firearms from a safe, state police said.

During the break-in, a juvenile resident of the home discovered the intruders and saw them holding firearms, state police said.

The juvenile, acting in self-defense, retrieved a handgun and shot both males before escaping through a bedroom window, state police said.

The two males who were shot later were identified as 51-year-old Jeffrey M. Allen and 44-year-old Roger D. Smith, state police said.

Allen, of Manchester, was pronounced dead at the scene, state police said, adding that emergency medical services took Smith, of McKee, to Advent Health Manchester, but he also died.

The Clay County coroner pronounced both males dead, state police said, adding that the medical examiner was to perform their autopsies Monday.

State police also said Detective Logan Gay is leading the investigation.

Authorities didn't disclose the juvenile's age and gender.

How are people reacting?

Commenters reacting to the state police Facebook post praised the juvenile and also worried about how the young person will deal with the fatal shootings going forward.

  • "Hope the kid doesn’t have guilt or any kind of trauma," one commenter said. "They got what they deserved."
  • "Very brave juvenile. Quick thinking as well," another user wrote. "I hope the juvenile has a great support system. Sending prayers."
  • "Teach [your] kids to defend themselves," another commenter declared. "Great job."
  • "Prayers for the juvenile," another user implored.
  • "God bless that young man," another commenter wrote while assuming the juvenile is a male. "He'll need some help, IMO, dealing with the mental/emotional issues of the memory of it all. He had every right to defend himself and the home, but still, emotions will come out. I hope he's doing okay."

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Vicious fight between 17-year-old female student, female teacher leads to student's arrest; teacher placed on leave



A 17-year-old female high school student was arrested and a female high school teacher was placed on leave after the pair engaged in a vicious fight this week in a Tallahassee, Florida, school cafeteria that was recorded on cellphone video.

The Leon County Sheriff's Office confirmed the arrest of the student from Lincoln High School, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

The teen also faces student discipline up to expulsion as part of the district's student code of conduct, the paper reported.

You can view cellphone video of the fight here.

The paper said several students recorded portions of the fight, which commenced around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday during lunchtime. Concerned parents also shared video of the fight on social media, the paper added.

Leon County School District officials told the paper the fight began after a student attacked a hall monitor and took her phone.

The video of the fight shows a large crowd of students in the cafeteria surrounding a woman and a student wrestling on the ground, the paper said, adding that the woman appears to kick the student off her. Several students manage to break up the fight, pulling the pair apart, the paper said, but as the student walks away, the woman searches for the student, finds her, and re-engages in the fight, pulling the student's hair while the student punches the woman. School officials confirmed to the paper that the video shows the end of the fight.

The student was arrested and taken to the Leon Juvenile Detention Center, the paper said, adding that she was charged with attempted robbery by sudden snatching and battery of a school official, both of which are felonies.

"We are still reviewing the video, and it is still very much an open investigation," LCSO communications director Shonda Knight added to the paper.

The teen also faces student discipline up to expulsion as part of the district's student code of conduct, the paper reported.

The school staff member is on leave pending the outcome of the investigation, the paper said.

Assistant Principal Jennifer Tibbitts emailed parents through the school system's FOCUS portal at 1:50 p.m. Thursday to inform them of the fight, the paper noted.

"Today at lunch there was an incident involving a student and staff member. Other school staff and our school resource officers responded immediately. This incident is being investigated by Leon County Sheriff's office and will be handled accordingly," the message said, according to the paper.

Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil, Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna, and school board members had announced Wednesday — prior to the fight — a tour of district high schools to discuss safety and security concerns with students, the paper said, adding that a visit to Lincoln High was scheduled for Friday. The status of that visit in light of the fight was not clear.

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Punk who slapped HS teacher twice in face gets charged — with misdemeanors



The North Carolina high school student who was caught on video slapping a teacher twice in the face has been charged with misdemeanors.

What are the details?

The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday said it "charged a juvenile with Assault on a Government Official and Communicating Threats." Specifically authorities said Juvenile Justice "issued a Secure Custody Order for one (1) count of Communicating Threats ... and two (2) counts Misdemeanor Assault ..." All the charges are misdemeanors.

The sheriff's office noted that the Parkland High School student — who's not being identified due to his age — was recorded on video Monday "assaulting an educator."

In the clip, the teacher remains seated and offers no resistance as the student delivers the pair of slaps — the second one sends the teacher's glasses flying.

“The f***’s wrong with you?" the student asks the teacher after the physical attack. "What you gonna do, still sit in that chair 'cause you a bitch ... ain’t nobody even coming, you got slapped, bitch go back to teaching ...”

Here's the video (Content warning: Language and racial slur, uttered by the student):

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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Tricia McManus told WGHP-TV a district hearing will determine consequences for the student — and McManus will recommend expulsion.

“It’s just like everything else,” she told the station. “You’ve got people that are going to make bad decisions on a daily basis in schools, out of schools, in the community, everywhere. And we’ve got to take those incidents, and we’ve got to address them.”

When asked if he would try the student as an adult, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill noted to WGHP that he cannot bring the case to superior court because the charges are only misdemeanors.

“We hope … the message we’ve delivered here today is that our teachers, our administrators that are out in these schools … deserve to feel safe," he said, according to the station. "We are here to protect you, and we’re here to see that … you’re never assaulted when you go to work. … We do want to remind people if you put your hands on a teacher, it’s the same as if you put your hands on one of these officers. The district attorney’s office will … bright the weight of this office down on top of you, so you should have fear of consequences.”

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'He didn't deserve this': Boy accused of murdering fellow 10-year-old boy with felonious father's forbidden gun



A 10-year-old boy in the Foothill Farms area of Sacramento County was arrested over the weekend and charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Keith Frierson, also 10.

According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 4700 block of Greenholme Drive around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in response to a report of a shooting. They found Frierson unresponsive in the middle of the parking lot and bleeding from his head and neck. Deputies administered CPR and life-saving efforts until members of the Sacramento Metro Fire District arrived and did likewise.

The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his wounds.

"He was smart, very intelligent, kind, loving, respectful," Erika, the victim's aunt, told KCRA-TV. "He didn't deserve this. He still had a whole life to live."

Erika indicated that "he wasn't even outside 15 minutes, and the little boy shot my nephew."

A friend of the victim's mother indicated on the page of a fundraiser for the family that Frierson had gone outside after completing his chores to ride around on his "new Christmas bike—a joyful moment turned to sorrow."

"He said, 'Can I go ride my bike?' That’s the last time I saw my baby alive," Brittani Frierson, the boy's mother, told KXTV-TV. "Next time I saw my baby, he was gone on this ground."

Witnesses told deputies the individual responsible ducked into a nearby apartment after the shooting. Upon identifying the apartment, deputies called out the adult and two juveniles inside, detaining all three. The adult they arrested has been identified as Arkete Davis, 53.

The New York Post indicated Davis is a felon with an extensive criminal history of fraud, theft, and drug charges, having run afoul of the law both in California and Texas.

On the basis of witness interviews and evidence found at the scene, detectives deduced that Davis' 10-year-old son went to his father's car to get the felon a pack of cigarettes. The SCSO indicated the suspect "took a gun from inside the vehicle and bragged that his father had a gun."

Officials confirmed that Davis is legally prohibited from possessing or owning a firearm. The likely murder weapon recovered at the scene was reported stolen in 2017.

After bragging about having his father's verboten gun, the suspect allegedly shot the victim then fled. His father is suspected of trying to dispose of the gun in a nearby trashcan where it was later found by detectives.

The suspect was taken to the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility. A SCSO spokesman told the Post that if the criminal case against the 10-year-old suspect proceeds and he is convicted, he could possibly wind up incarcerated until the age of 25.

The suspect's father was arrested and taken to the Sacramento County Main Jail. Jail records indicate Davis was charged with five felonies, including carrying a stolen, loaded firearm in a vehicle; endangering the life or health of a child; and accessory after the fact. Davis' bail was set at $500,000. He is set to appear in court on Wednesday.

KCRA reported that members of the victim's family hold the suspect's parents just as responsible as the shooter.

"Any parent in their right mind should know how to keep an armed weapon secure. My nephew's blood is on y'all hands. Y'all allowed y'all son to do this to my 10-year-old nephew," said Erika. "Y'all parents need to know how to put y'all weapons away. Teach y'all kids right. Because this wasn't right."

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Desperate father begs prosecutors to keep underage son in jail after multiple accusations of carjacking. Prosecutors instead consider charging father with neglect.



A desperate father says he has been "begging" the juvenile criminal justice system in Baltimore to keep his son, accused of multiple violent carjackings, in jail for his safety and the safety of others. Not only have his pleas fallen on deaf ears, Baltimore prosecutors even considered charging the father with neglect after he initially refused to pick his son up from jail.

On Tuesday, Santiago Garcia-Diaz joined Todd Piro of "Fox & Friends First" to discuss his son's dire situation. In the interview, Garcia-Diaz insisted that his son is a danger to himself and to society and that new laws regarding juvenile offenders may cost his son his life.

"I've been begging for help for my child for two and a half years," Garcia-Diaz told Piro. "I've had petitions signed by judges to have him sent away for mental eval[uation]. I have no idea what else to do. Like, I've tried everything. I'm at the end of my wit. …What else does a father do to save his child's life?"

Bryce Garcia-Diaz, Santiago's 14- or 15-year-old son, was recently charged with a violent carjacking. According to reports, Bryce and a friend stole two cars and went on a high-speed chase, reaching speeds of up to 100 mph and weaving "in and out of traffic." Bryce also allegedly ran over two police officer during the incident.

"They was trying to barricade my son in," Garcia-Diaz claimed. "Someone tried to stop and he took the gas and tried to drive right through [the officers], knocked them out of his shoes."

Of the 19 charges Bryce was facing for the incident, 18 have since been dropped.

Fox News reported that Bryce is "an accused serial carjacker," and Bryce had been arrested for at least one alleged carjacking in nearby Washington, D.C., though the date of that arrest is unknown. Garcia-Diaz said he even took Bryce to the police station himself after he believed his son had stolen a car, but that Bryce was issued only a citation.

Bryce did receive a sentence of six months of probation for another incident, but Garcia-Diaz claimed that Bryce had violated the terms of his probation on "the first day."

New Maryland laws regarding juveniles went into effect over the summer, and Garcia-Diaz stated that such laws actually encouraged his son's allegedly criminal behavior.

"As of June 1, they changed the laws for the juvenile justice system to where they can only be charged with certain crimes at certain times, and they got to go through so many steps before they can actually make a move to really do anything against the child now," Garcia-Diaz lamented.

"It's ridiculous," he added.

In addition to the alleged propensity for theft and violence, Garcia-Diaz claimed that his son suffers from a chronic lung condition and that frequent smoking and marijuana use nearly killed him when he accidentally overused his inhaler, the side effects of which severely affected his heart and lungs.

"The last time he disappeared for over a week, he came home, and we had to rush to the hospital," Garcia-Diaz recalled. "And they said that if we wouldn't have brought him in, he would have been dead."

Because Garcia-Diaz feared for his son's life and future, he refused to pick him up from jail for the most recent alleged carjacking, but officers threatened to charge him with neglect and abandonment instead if he did not pick Bryce up within six hours.

"I want my son to get some help. I mean, if it's jail that's what it's going to take, then jail," Garcia-Diaz insisted, though he also wants his son's mental health assessed. So far, he said, the system has created barriers that have prevented that assessment.

"This isn’t even about my son," Garcia-Diaz added. "This is about Baltimore City's kids. This is about all juvenile delinquents."

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