A registered sex offender is dead after shooting a Florida deputy in a shootout with a homeowner during a failed home invasion, officials said.
Gregory Ryan Miedema, 33, was fatally shot at a house in Dixie County as he tried to evade capture during a 10-hour manhunt, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said at a news conference.
Police were looking for Miedema since Tuesday night, when he allegedly shot Taylor County Deputy Troy Anderson multiple times during a routine traffic stop.
The FDLE issued a “Blue Alert” after the shooting, used when police enlist the public’s help to find a suspect when an officer is wounded or killed.
As multiple law enforcement agencies searched for Miedema, he tried to break into a home, but ended up mortally wounded in a gunfire exchange with the armed homeowner, officials said.
The homeowner was also hurt but his injuries were categorized as non-life-threatening.
Miedema had been a registered sex offender in Florida.
In 2011, Miedema was sentenced to serve six and a half years in prison after he was convicted of lewd or lascivious battery, intercourse with a victim 12 to 15 years old and possession of child pornography, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. He was also ordered to serve two months of probation.
And liberals wonder why we conservative constitutionalists support the 2nd Amendment.
Got what he deserved but if we had stricter gun control laws, the chances are he never would’ve been able to get a gun after his prison time.
We already have a law restricting guns to felons. HE WAS A CRIMINAL WHO DOES NOT OBEY LAWS. What don’t you understand.
Amen and 100 percent correct the criminals will always have weapons while the far left tyrants try to take them from lawful abiding citizens
Thank you Linda for educating the people who still don’t get it. Criminals DON’T follow laws. Where there is a will there is a way for criminals. You’re right the law is ALREADY in place. Hows that been working??? What is so difficult for people to understand about this?
Preach on, sister! The bad guys don’t go to their local gun stores when they need a weapon, they look up someone on the black market. We already have enough gun control laws on the books as it is, but they only work if everyone obeys them. Clearly, a criminal is not going to do so.
Exactly
The reason these people are running around is there is not enough guns around!What stopped him, that’s right it was an ARMED citizen it wasn’t having it for work
anyone can get a gun on the black market. stricter gun control will just give the black market a much wanted boost & will make it easy for criminals to get guns a lot more than it already is you can make it straight up illegal for anyone to own a gun & then the criminals will be the only ones that have them
anyone can get a gun on the black market. stricter gun control will just give the black market a much wanted boost & will make it easy for criminals to get guns a lot more than it already is you can make it straight up illegal for anyone to own a gun & then the criminals will be the only ones that have them
One less pedophile!!!!
your not able to have a gun after prison time
You are not supposed to have a gun if you’re a criminal but they don’t follow the laws so they end up with a gun. This is why citizens should be allowed guns to protect themselves from the soft on crime laws Soros is paying for.