
K this is going to be a long one
Police officer shot in St. Petersburg
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According to Public Information Officer Bill Poffitt, the officer was shot in the stomach multiple times after he confronted three robbery suspects.
Investigators say the altercation happened around 10:20 p.m. outside the Exxon gas station in the 3000 block of
The assistant chief of police said undercover officers were performing surveillance on the gas station when the suspects tried to rob it.
The two other teens -- Shaheed Wright, 16, and Desmond Creary, 17, both of St. Petersburg – were also apprehended after the shooting and charged in the gas station robbery and attempted murder.
After the teens first came to the attention of the two undercover detectives, the detectives watched as the three took their bicycles to an alley across the street from the gas station, police said.
One of the teens – Desmond Creary – stayed behind with the bicycles and served as a look-out while the other two went inside the gas station, according to police records and family members. One was wearing a mask, the other a red bandana, police said.
Mohammed Masud, the owner, was not there at the time but said two clerks and a homeless man were. Masud said two suspects entered with their faces concealed, and one of them pointed a gun in the direction of the chest of one of the clerks, Masud said.
They demanded the money that was in one cash register, asked if there were another cash register, and then left with the cash they were given, along with a porn DVD, Masud said. The same gas station was robbed on Nov. 4, but by different culprits, Masud said.
After the robbery, Seay and Wright ran back to their bicycles, where Creary was waiting, police said. In one account provided by police, the undercover detective grabbed Creary at about this time. That's when Seay approached the detective and shot several rounds from a mid-size caliber handgun, striking the officer several times in the upper and lower body, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said this morning.
The detective returned fire, but none of the teens was struck.
Seay's jail affidavit, however, says Seay shot the undercover officer when the detective confronted Seay and told him to halt.
"He's not that type of person at all," said Seay's brother, Ferrell Davis, who until recently had been in jail. Davis, who said he was recently released from jail, showed up at a press conference the chief gave at the police department's training building, but was escorted out.
Davis said his brother James had been robbed twice recently and might have been protecting himself or his alleged associate when he fired. "My brother is not the person they're making him out to be in the news," Davis said.
"The way they're blasting him is ridiculous," Kimberly Davis, James Seay's sister, said of her brother. "If you were dressed undercover – they are not in uniform – and you grab my arm, I'm going to defend myself, too."
They also said they hadn't heard from James Seay since his arrest, and wondered they he hasn't called them. "Who's to say they ain't verbally abusing him, if not physically abusing him," said Rev. Daryl Seay, his uncle, a self-described ex-convict.Look this idiot smiles for the mug shot!
Well here we go
First this family is a bunch of criminals Brother Uncle
Second they question why the robbery wasn't stopped before it happened. This is the perfect example of a family looking for a lawsuit. If the cops stopped them before they went into the store then they will accuse the cops of profiling harassment. The cops would have found the gun yes stopped the crime but then it would be my son just had it for protection and wasn't going to rob nobody. Nobody forced this trash to have the gun then go into the store rob store run see his partner get apprehended then come back and shot a police officer. This is all on him and his family should just shut up and start writing letters to their kid in jail. This attorney should have his right to practice law removed for even taking this case. The rules should be if you take on a case that clearly is a media publicity shake down your done no more license. How in the world could this family even think that their kid nephew cousin has any chance of a story that this was at all justifiable. Simple facts wish we had public stoning or hangings outside city hall every Saturday.