Posted on 05/17/2019 9:58:55 AM PDT by Gamecock
ST. PETERSBURG — William John Shutt once shot up an antique store with an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle while drunk back in 2013. More recently, he was suspended from Facebook for trolling strangers.
This is the man St. Petersburg police say shot two men in the Historic Old Northeast on March 27, killing one and wounding the other.
Shutt, 31, was arrested days later on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Detectives obtained a search warrant on April 24 for his cell phone, looking for information that could explain his motivation.
The warrant reveals new details about the case, including the survivor’s account of the shooting, hints of Shutt’s volatile past and how detectives tracked him.
Ex-wife Kelly Euston, 24, said she and her family were “shocked but not surprised” when they heard about the deadly shooting.
“He’s always had that weird demeanor that something is just not right about him,” she said. “He was just sketchy.”
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Euston said she met Shutt when she was in high school in Delaware. He already had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, she said. The Army confirmed he was a member of the National Guard.
Their marriage was short-lived. After the wedding, Euston said she discovered he was previously arrested in a shooting incident and was secretly using their wedding money to pay off his court fines.
The incident was also described in the St. Petersburg search warrant: Shutt fired the rifle at a store in Newark, Del., but told police he was drunk at the time and didn’t know why he did it.
Florida Man!
Yep. Guessed right.
Open and Schutt case!
Dammit! Open and Shutt case.
Fla-ra-duh...surprise!
Extreme PTSD? A few years ago i worked with a fellow security guard who was a just retired marine with multiple Afghan and Iraq tours who always carried a Glock(against work rules) He had a permit but I wondered when he would get into a shooting scrape with road rage or something similar. He lived in a violent neighborhood and is reputed to have pacified the area around the rooming house where he stayed by scaring his neighbors.
Darn. Road rage I can understand, but why would someone want to kill an antique store?
“...an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle...”
A nod to the Tampa Bay Times...they didn’t call the gun an assault weapon.
“Euston lost track of her ex-husband. She just knew he moved to Florida.”
Going to need an independent ruling on this one. Import model from GropingJoeyLand. Not sure we can give Florida full credit here. Prior history of idiocy, may simply have been attracted to Florida by its reputation.
Florida draws them like ants to sugar.
Damn shame - looks like that was a nice M3.
(perp can rot)
“He’s always had that weird demeanor that something is just not right about him,”
Yep, had that pegged already. He’s fairly young and surely has an extensive rap sheet. Why was he out roaming the streets so soon after the antique shop incident? Guessing a lib judge.
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