Posted on 08/20/2017 4:19:43 PM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY
An eviction turned deadly Friday night and a landlord is now in jail on a first-degree murder charge after police say he shot a tenant living at his parent’s Duck Key home.
Ryan Wilder, 32, of Winter Springs, Fla. is being held in county jail in Marathon on no bond. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detectives say he shot and killed Kenneth Palicki, 47, shortly before 6:30 p.m. Friday night.
Palicki and his girlfriend, Colleen Lyons, 25, lived at 162 North Indies Drive, a house owned by Wilder’s parents, said Deputy Becky Herrin, media relations officer for the Sheriff’s Office. Palicki and Lyons had been served eviction papers requiring them to be out of the house by Aug. 23, Herrin said.
Wilder went to the house Friday and no one was home. He began taking items from the house outside when Palicki and Lyons returned home. Wilder and Palicki began arguing and Palicki told Lyons to call the Sheriff’s Office, which she did. While on the phone with a dispatcher, Lyons said Wilder had a pistol in a holster on his hip.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article168224232.html#storylink=cpy
Lead eviction notices are not allowed I guess.
I understand the frustrations of trying to oust a bad tenant, but this guy sounds like he was in the wrong from beginning to end.
The tenant got evicted from life.
Wow, this guy is dead serious!
I’m not surprised he said the tenant tried something and it was in self defense.
The other individual apparently heard but did not see everything.
I suppose any recording of the call will help fill in the details.
Florida man.
Yep, he was removing their property five days before the eviction notice was set to come due. He should bring sheriff with him when enforcing an eviction and let them handle it. And without some mitigating factors not presented in the article self defense is going to be a hard sell.
Whatever it was that got him so upset, he just screwed the rest of his life over it.
Guess we can call that ‘eviction with extreme prejudice’.
Pistol on his hip? No open carry in Florida. But first degree murder, perhaps the open carry showed intent.
... and the other guy is seriously dead.
Frankly, I don’t care how studly a guy may believe himself to be he should not have gone in alone. Even saying the other guy was there to help move furniture rather than for security makes sense of them being there.
Going in alone was one of the landlord’s first mistakes.
The best course of action would have been to just CHANGE THE LOCKS and worry about getting their stuff out later.
One should never argue with an armed man-particularly if one isn’t armed! Witness the alderman confronting his kook, commie, Trump-hating neighbor the other day-he wound up getting two bullets-one in his head-right in front of his poor wife...
Yep - he was wrong.
Your right.
Just watched “99 Houses”. It’s about Florida evictions.
Right about bringing a sheriff’s deputy? Or two? (their call)
I think that’s a standard thing to do in any state if you expect to have trouble with a tenant.
I think before shooting a tenant, you have to give them thirty days notice.
He was on his own property, open carry is just fine.
In the film they had 2 with backup nearby. The foreclosure guys were packing too.
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Betting there is way more to this story....
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