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While the Florida man, in the center of a deadly shooting in July, was released on Monday, hundreds of pages of sheriff's documents were released.
According to the documents, a witness told a detective that the shooter, Michael Drejka, had seemed "more angry" than remorseful and immediately justified the shooting by those who had seen what was happening at Clearwater's Circle A store.
Spectator Robert Castelly said that Drejka mumbled to himself: "I just shot at someone, what did you think it was going to happen? not have to run on me. "
Another witness, Vicki Conrad, said that she had not heard Drejka say that he had shot anyone, but that after the incident she was had been struck by his behavior, according to the sheriff's department documents.
"Her behavior was, you know, like, proud," she says in a transcript with a detective.
"I do not want to put words in your mouth, but as if it did not bother you, is that what you mean?" the detective asked.
"Yeah, yeah, and like it's cool, you know," Conrad said.
The authorities did not say what words could have been exchanged when Drejka, 48, shot Markeis McGlockton, 28, when McGlockton entered a parking space for the disabled at Circle A.
As McGlockton and her 5-year-old son entered the store, Drejka – spontaneously – began to examine her car to determine if she had the right sticker, the police said. He then quarreled with McGlockton's girlfriend, who was in the car with their other two children.
When McGlockton came out of the store, the surveillance footage showed him Drejka on the floor. Drejka pulled out his gun while he was still down and stopped before shooting McGlockton, though it seemed that McGlockton was leaking.
Drejka was arrested immediately after the shooting because he was considered defending himself when he shot McGlockton, said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri. But this decision sparked protests over perceived bias, with Drejka being white and McGlockton black.
Nearly a month later, local prosecutors accused Drejka of manslaughter and a judge fixed his bail at $ 100,000. If he is found guilty, he faces up to 30 years in prison.
A lawyer from Drejka could not be reached immediately for comment on Monday.
In an interview with detectives in the hours following the murder, Drejka and his girlfriend McGlockton verbally quarreled in the parking lot, but he was "blinded" when McGlockton came out and pushed him to the ground.
He said he believed McGlockton was going towards him and that his life was in danger.
"I've never been in this situation before," Drejka told detectives. "The first thing I think if I'm touched like that, someone comes to me for more."
McGlockton's lawyers said that he was only trying to defend his family from Drejka, and that if McGlockton had perhaps used force to push Drejka, it did not need to climb with a firearm.
A preliminary hearing in this case is scheduled for October 19th.
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