Meet 57 y/o Wylie Chambers. Prior to Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 he looked like this…
In fact that was Wylie’s Ocala, FL booking photo. He was arrested on two (2) counts of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm after pointing a gun at two (2) females and firing it into the ground during a domestic dispute with his girlfriend who he was trying to locate. Wylie faced significant prison time (forty (40) years – including “minimum -mandatory sentencing under Florida’s “10-20-LIFE law” – F.S. 775.087, which you can view here) and was offered a plea deal of three (3) years in prison. He rejected the plea and proceeded to trial in the Ocala Courthouse.
However, during a lunch recess on Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 (which was called to occur from about 11:30 am – 12:45 pm) Wylie descended to the second floor of the parking garage near the Marion County Courthouse and shot himself in the head with a Derringer.
It is sad that it came to this but the silver lining for Wylie is that he won’t have to go to prison, for the taxpayers is that they won’t have to support him during an extended prison stay and for the Jurors is that they got to go home early (and get to avoid jury duty for at least a year).
In Florida assault (i.e. an intentional threat to harm another coupled with an apparent ability to do so) is a 2nd degree misdemeanor punishable by up to sixty (60) days in jail and a $500.00 fine. An aggravated assault (i.e. an assault committed with a deadly weapon) is a 3rd degree felony punishable by up to five (5) years in prison and a $5,000.00 fine. However, if the deadly weapon is a firearm (or a “destructive device”) then the offense carries a “minimum-mandatory” day-for-day three (3) year prison sentence, and if the firearm (or destructive device) is discharged during commission of the assault then, pursuant to Florida’s “10-20-LIFE” law the “min-mand” is twenty (20) years (this is why Wylie faced forty (40) years in prison, twenty (20) per count with two (2) counts).
Again, this is a most unfortunate situation. Were Wylie as smart as Wile E. Coyote then he would’ve handled the search for his girlfriend better.
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