{"id":98057,"date":"2018-09-27T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=98057"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:19:19","slug":"florida-homeowner-kills-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/florida-homeowner-kills-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_98058\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/intruders.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-homeowner-kills-one\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98058\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/intruders-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/intruders-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/intruders-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/intruders.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All four remaining suspects were eventually caught in the ensuing manhunt. <em>(Photo: St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A homeowner in a rural neighborhood outside of St. Augustine, Fl., earlier this month fought off five intruders with a handgun, killing 24-year-old Paul Pettigrew and forcing the remaining four to flee as police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>All four suspects are currently in custody, and they\u2019ve been charged with felony murder and attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still unclear why the five were in the home at 2:00 a.m., but St. Johns County Undersheriff Matthew Cline said at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StJohnsSheriffOffice\/videos\/2219868868242359\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-homeowner-kills-one\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference<\/a> their motives appear to be drug-related.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether their presence was known by the residents on Cowan Road as being consensual or as a robbery, we&#8217;re not quite sure yet. Everyone is being interviewed as we speak. Obviously, things didn&#8217;t go very well. There were shots fired and an individual&#8230; is deceased on scene,&#8221; Cline said.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/homeowner-captured-escaped-georgia-inmates-loaded-every-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-homeowner-kills-one\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" rel=\"bookmark\">Homeowner Who Captured Escaped Georgia Inmates: \u2018I loaded up every weapon I could\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Law enforcement arrested two of the four suspects shortly after the incident but engaged in an extensive manhunt for the remaining two, who fled into the nearby woods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had deputies that have suffered heat exhaustion. We&#8217;ve got deputies that are being treated at Flagler Hospital, as we speak,&#8221; Cline said.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, a tip from a citizen led to the arrest of the remaining individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that someone had the courage to see something and say something and pick up the phone, make the call to the St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, we were able to end this thing,\u201d Cline said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects range from 18-21 years of age, and police identified them as Christopher Pettigrew (who is the brother of the deceased), Zared Matthews, Jeffrey Balcom and Xavier Williams.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/alabama-homeowner-ive-got-gun-burglar-ive-got-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-homeowner-kills-one\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" rel=\"bookmark\">Alabama Homeowner: \u2018I\u2019ve got a gun.\u2019 Burglar: \u2018I\u2019ve got one too\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Cline also noted that the homeowner has been cooperating with the investigation, and St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office Commander Chuck Mulligan told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/news\/local\/augustine-homeowner-defending-himself-shoots-kills-intruder-four-suspects-charged-with-murder\/q8v3iCcPJUVvILdeH3CEfI\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-homeowner-kills-one\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a> that the person has not been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The four intruders have been charged under a Florida statute that allows a person to be charged with murder if a death occurs during the commission of certain \u201cenumerated offenses.\u201d These include a murder of another person, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, aggravated child abuse, home-invasion robbery and several other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis, with the 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney\u2019s Office, explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staugustine.com\/news\/20180923\/floridas-felony-murder-statute-has-some-locals-facing-murder-charges-without-ever-having-pulled-trigger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-homeowner-kills-one\" title=\"Florida Homeowner Fights Off Five Intruders, Kills One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a> that the statue is intended to punish individuals who participate in crimes in which there is a likelihood that someone could be killed.<\/p>\n<p>St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office continues to investigate this incident and did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were not inside the home, they were attempting to get inside the home to commit an alleged drug-related home invasion robbery,&#8221; said Charles E. Mulligan, a spokesperson for the St. Johns Sheriff&#8217;s Office in an email to GunsAmerica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The homeowner has not been charged,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homeowner in a rural neighborhood outside of St. Augustine, Fl., earlier this month fought off five intruders who were in his home at 2am. He killed one with a handgun and forced the remaining four to flee as police arrived. 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