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Memoriams
IN LOVE MEMORY OF ‘GRANNY’
MAGGIE WOODEN January 15, 1921 – September 20, 2010
Loved and missed by chil- dren: Darrell, Debra, Danette and Donna; and other family members.
IN MEMORIAM
MOTHER MINNIE WASHINGTON
A wonderful and very special mother and sister to so many. Gone, but never forgotten. So loved ... So missed!
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MR. JULIUS DAVIS August 16, 1937 – September 28, 2015
Your presence we miss, your memory we treasure. Loving You Always, Forgetting You Never.
It has been three years since the Lord called you home.
You are terribly missed by, your loving wife, Sandra Davis
Myers; your children, grands and great-grands.
Crime
Shooter In ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case Released On Bond
On Monday, Michael Drejka, wearing an elec- tronic monitor, was released from the Pinellas County Jail after posting a $100,000 bond. He had been in jail since his arrest in August for killing 28- year-old Markeis McGlockton.
In addition to his release, the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe released 400 pages of information pertaining to the case. In the paperwork, Drejka stated that he shot McGlock- ton after he stepped toward him.
However, the autopsy report released earlier this week contradicts Drejka’s claim.
The Autopsy Report
The Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office stated in the autopsy that the fatal bullet struck Mc- Glockton just below his left nipple, traveled through his heart and lungs, and came to lodge in his right armpit. His chest was filled with about a liter of blood, the report stated.
McGlockton had been shot with a .40 caliber Glock. The report confirmed that McGlockton was turning away from Drejka when he was shot. It also stated that McGlockton had traces of ampheta- mines in his urine and blood, but the amounts weren’t unusually high or low. It was not clear how long the drugs had been in his system.
The Shooting
On July 19th, Drejka fatally shot McGlockton,
the father of 3 children, outside the Circle A Store, 1201 Sunset Point Road, in Clearwater.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Drejka became engaged in an altercation with Ms. Britany Jacobs after she pulled into a handi- capped parking space. Ms. Jacobs’ boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, and their 5-year-old son had gone inside the store.
Ms. Jacobs was waiting in the car when she was approached by 48-year-old Drejka. The two became engaged in an argument over Ms. Jacobs parking in the handicap space, police said.
Witnesses alerted the clerk about the argument in the parking lot. At that point, McGlockton went outside the store, and walked over to Drejka. Wit- nesses told police McGlockton forcibly pushed Drejka and Drejka fell to the ground.
MARKEIS McGLOCKTON
MICHAEL DREJKA ... Released on bond
The store’s video shows that while on the ground in a sitting position, Drejka pulled a handgun and fired one shot at McGlockton, hitting him in the chest. McGlockton died at the scene as a result of his injuries.
Drejka had a concealed weapon permit at the time of the killing.
Drejka was not arrested charged with manslaughter with an enhancement because of the gun.
The following day, less than 24 hours after the shooting, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri during a press conference stated that the shooting was ruled a “stand your ground” shooting and his of- fice was not going to arrest Drejka.
The incident had uproar throughout the nation. It also brought back to the forefront, Florida’s con- troversial “Stand Your Ground” law.
After reviewing the case, Attorney McCabe’s office issued a warrant for Drejka’s arrest on Au- gust 13th.
Ms. Jacobs hired renowned Attorney Ben- jamin Crump to represent her in the civil case.
Attorney Crump released the following state- ment: “We are seeing the same old narrative played out now on Mr. Markeis McGlockton as we’ve seen before; when an unarmed Black man is shot dead, he is not treated as the victim that he is. In- stead, he is criminalized, his character assassinated —- all for the crooked justification of his death and the actions of his killer.
“Markeis acted in a way that any good man would when he saw his children and their mother being verbally assaulted by a stranger. Markeis McGlockton was an upstanding family man who acted in such a way to protect his family.”
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