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02-21-2010, 09:28 PM
Angry father shoots man in groin, uses 'The Judge'
February 16, 2010 11:25 AM
Angel McCurdy
Daily News
NAVARRE – A 48-year-old Navarre man accused of shooting a man in the scrotum and inner thigh area was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated battery.
A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy investigating a noise complaint near Ridge Drive heard people screaming and saw a male and a female running toward him. The victim, Randall Carter, who was bleeding from the groin area, screamed that he’d been shot.
The woman, Amanda Kelly, told the deputy that her father, William Russell Kelly Jr., had shot the victim because “he hates him, dude.”
When deputies located the father, he admitted shooting the younger man at his Ridge Drive home.
“I shot him in the nuts with bird-shot because he was beating my daughter,” Kelly said, according to his arrest report.
He was found with a weapon, a silver Taurus .45-caliber revolver known as “The Judge.” All five chambers had been loaded, with only one shot fired, the deputy wrote. Three were filled with bird-shot and the fourth with lead.
Kelly, who works on Eglin Air Force Base, was charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability, which is a second degree felony.
He was released on a $20,000 bond Monday afternoon after his arrest.
February 16, 2010 11:25 AM
Angel McCurdy
Daily News
NAVARRE – A 48-year-old Navarre man accused of shooting a man in the scrotum and inner thigh area was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated battery.
A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy investigating a noise complaint near Ridge Drive heard people screaming and saw a male and a female running toward him. The victim, Randall Carter, who was bleeding from the groin area, screamed that he’d been shot.
The woman, Amanda Kelly, told the deputy that her father, William Russell Kelly Jr., had shot the victim because “he hates him, dude.”
When deputies located the father, he admitted shooting the younger man at his Ridge Drive home.
“I shot him in the nuts with bird-shot because he was beating my daughter,” Kelly said, according to his arrest report.
He was found with a weapon, a silver Taurus .45-caliber revolver known as “The Judge.” All five chambers had been loaded, with only one shot fired, the deputy wrote. Three were filled with bird-shot and the fourth with lead.
Kelly, who works on Eglin Air Force Base, was charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability, which is a second degree felony.
He was released on a $20,000 bond Monday afternoon after his arrest.