78-year-old allegedly shoots, kills neighbor who was trimming trees along their property lines

[groundloop]

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Source: ABC News

A 78-year-old Florida man allegedly shot and killed his neighbor who was trimming trees along their property lines, authorities said.

The shooting was reported around 7:13 p.m. Sunday in DeLeon Springs, about 45 miles north of Orlando, the Volusia Sheriff's Office said.

The victim, 42-year-old Brian Ford, was trimming tree limbs along the fence line between two properties when his neighbor, 78-year-old Edward Druzolowski, "confronted him about being on his property," according to the sheriff's office.

Druzolowski later told police that "he threatened to shoot Ford, and when Ford didn’t leave, he shot him," the sheriff's office said in a statement.



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[Jim__]

1. Standing his ground defense?

[groundloop]

5. Let any lunatic purchase a gun who wants one, what could possibly go wrong?

[Lonestarblue]

2. I don't know about Florida, but in most states if your neighbor's tree limbs extend into ypur

property, you have a right to cut them. But how utterly ridiculous to murder a man simply for trimming tree limbs!

[LeftInTX]

3. Good grief!

[Novara]

4. I guess I'm lucky I haven't been shot trimming my neighbor's branches that are overhanging my fence

[Think. Again.]

6. In Florida???

[Shoeless Louis]

12. The "Florida Man Saga Continues Apace"

[Mr.Bill]

7. I find it very interesting

that they didn't need to investigate him for three years before they arrested him. Next thing you know, he will actually have to post bail to get out of jail. The world has gone crazy.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Just another day in America

[twodogsbarking]

9. Rand Paul Syndrome.

[maxsolomon]

10. Seniors w/ guns, anger, and no impulse control.

Watch; Druzlowski will have dementia but was always a crotchety fuck about his property lines.

Did Ford tell Druzlowski he was going to trim the branches, and the old dude didn't remember?

[Warpy]

14. Being a senior has nothing to do with it

except it's remarkable that this geezer's aim was good, too good.

Chances are this was just a "MY trees, growing on MY property, you have NO RIGHT kind of thing. It's wrong, of course, anything going over the property line is fair game, but a lot of people of all ages don't know that.

Florida has some of the stupidest laws in the country, so likely this bastard will get away with murder.

[maxsolomon]

18. dementia MIGHT have something to do with

making the "my property" issue a summary execution offense. i say that because of the last few "old man shoots trespasser" stories.

i don't think he will get away with this murder, even in florduh. there will be some legal consequences unless it's as i speculated.

[getagrip_already]

11. Hey, he warned the guy at least.....

Who hasn't just shot someone over something completely peaceful and non-violent after issuing a threat?

Really, the neighbor bears some responsibility here. If he hadn't been standing there, the bullet wouldn't have hit him.

/s

[Journeyman]

13. If I'm standing on some old coots property, and he threatens to shoot me if I don't leave . . .

I pack up and move back onto my land, try to talk with him later when he's not sundowning.

Sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor.

[niyad]

17. You only have this self-admitted murderer's word that his victim was on his

property.

[cannabis_flower]

22. And only his word that

He even warned him

[Attilatheblond]

25. True, but the police can probably tell due to where the boddy dropped.

Was noticing the news article did not mention race. In FL, that probably has an impact on how the shooter gets punished.

[Calista241]

34. If you shoot someone, even in Florida, you have a lot of explaining to do to stay out of jail.

Even George Zimmerman had to go to court, fight for his freedom, and raise an ungodly amount of money to pay for his lawyers. Even then, the court's result was far from a sure thing, and he was very, very close to spending the rest of his life in the slammer.

That huge amount of publicity doesn't seem to be happening in this case, and he'll more than likely have to pay his lawyer's bills all by himself. After the criminal case, he's going to be civilly sued into oblivion by the victim's family.

[Paladin]

19. Yeah, that "better part of valor" thing...

That would be not referring to an elderly individual as an "old coot," in order to avoid getting shot to death.

In Florida, or anywhere else in the Excessively-Armed States of America.

[cannabis_flower]

27. Nowhere in the article did it say

That the neighbor called him an “old coot”, even though he is, by definition, an old coot.

[elleng]

15. Florida.

So glad my folks don't live there any more, but I believe they're resting in peace (@ SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL CEMETERY. 6501 FL-7. Lake Worth, FL 33449, I think.)

[Aristus]

16. Yeah, I see that 'more guns will make us all a lot more polite to one another' thing

is going so well.


Don't tell me; let me guess: Rambo here is a 'law-abiding gun-owner', right?

[MiHale]

20. Retirement plan? ...

Didn’t win the lottery…had to go to plan B.

Too soon?

[Botany]

21. Trae Crowder (the liberal redneck) speaks for me

Florida, "The fertile crescent of crazy crackers." If a gun is your hammer then all your problems look
like nails. Wanna bet if Mr. Druzolowski was a regular consumer of Rush, Fox News, Glen Beck, info-wars,
had lots of America Flag/screaming eagle shit around his house, and had at least 10 guns.

Link to tweet

[No-Respect-In-TN]

23. I'm with you, Trae is the best.

"She dedicated her life to being wrong out loud." HA!

[SergeStorms]

36. She was doing more than vaping....

taking flash pictures in a darkened theater, and being loud and obnoxious. That's just normal, everyday behavior for BoBo. She had her hand in her "date's" crotch, but the security camera didn't show if she had a handful of baloney, or not. Her "date's" hands appear to be caressing her tatas, but again, it wasn't clear on the security cameras pictures.

She's a class act all the way, and by "class act" I mean someone who thinks the back seat of a car is "luxury accommodations" and who can suck a golf ball through 50 ft. of garden hose.

She hasn't matured one iota since she first dropped her drawers at 13 yrs. old. Republican men love her. 🙄

[Botany]

39. The video I saw was she had her hand full of his package ..... as he was rubbing her breasts

It was the kind of shit that would get you kicked out of a high school dance. The internet rumor
is that she was a working girl for a bit and that she had sex with Ted Cruz for money in Aspen, CO
and he told her to go into politics.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Stand Your Ground weaponized.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Gun Geezers fall debut

2A the most important right, higher than property, persons, speech, safety. Looking cross-eyed is next.

[Ray Bruns]

28. I was looking at the guys booking photo and I have one question:

Does any man in Florida own a collared shirt?

[ffr]

29. His neighbor? He intentionally shot and killed his neighbor for trimming trees limbs?

I think at any point when someone confronts you with a gun, your best course is to break off from that confrontation. Whatever it is you're arguing about, like property line tree limb trimming, ain't worth dying over.

This is just crazy stupid stuff!

[niyad]

33. Nowhere in the article is there any confirmation of his allegations.

[live love laugh]

38. Who said he confronted him with a gun or if he had a chance to break away?

[iluvtennis]

30. I have no words.

for Mr Ford.

[LeftInTX]

31. Crime scene

If this is the neighbor's (Mr Ford's) property, and I think it is, then wife beater shirt is toast.

Looks like Mr Ford may have been on the ladder and wife beater may have opened the gate just to go shoot him.

[eggplant]

32. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.

/s

[live love laugh]

37. Apparently they don't. There's a fence in the picture.

[Chi67]

40. yeah

But it doesn't look like a very good one.

Oh, and we need need more guns, right? Because good guys with guns...or something like that.

[ZonkerHarris]

35. I've changed my mind on the death penalty lately. These gun fucks need to die for these murders.

Fry him.
Hang him on TV
Go French Revolution on their ass with a public guillotine
maybe that will drive it home for these violent gun fucks.

[Chi67]

41. Ugh

Sadly, I'm beginning to agree with you.

[Tree Lady]

42. Like my husband says

There is obviously a past with the neighbors.

[Emile]

43. After an alert and discussion with the hosts locking thread.

This is not important news of national interest. I would recommend reposting in General Discussion, but some else already did it.