ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (WFLA) — The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Workplace shared video displaying how a lady utilized the 911 textual content function when she did not really feel secure sufficient to talk out loud, and the way officers responded accordingly.
Early Monday morning, deputies responded to a residence after receiving a 911 textual content from a lady fearing for her life after her brother broke into her house and was armed with a machete.
“My brother broke into my home and is threatening to kill me. I am scared he’ll do it earlier than assist can get right here,” the girl wrote.
Discretion was key for responding deputies, as the girl feared seeing first responders arrive would possibly set the suspect off.
“Please haven’t got them include their lights on cuz I am scared he’ll damage me,” the sufferer wrote.
The suspect, recognized as 35-year-old Justin Troy Locke, was taunting the sufferer from outdoors her bed room door after breaking in, the arrest report mentioned.
“Do you could have a pistol in your hand? As a result of you are going to want it,” he reportedly informed the sufferer. Then he started lighting paper towels on fireplace and placing them underneath her door, and the sufferer informed police she might see the smoke and flames from the place she was within the bed room.
Locke initially ignored orders from police to come back outdoors the home and threw a Coke can on the officers standing outdoors. After being struck 3 times by 40 mm ‘much less deadly’ rounds, he complied and was taken into custody.
Locke was charged with felony housebreaking, tried arson, tried resisting an officer with violence, and misdemeanor assault.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Workplace shared a reminder that texting 911 is an possibility in conditions the place an individual cannot make a name.
“Name if you happen to can, textual content if you cannot,” they wrote on Fb.
