A home-invasion robbery leads to Felony Murder charges. This is probably not what they expected to have happen. Four people arrested after homicide investigation in Levy County
Cedar Key, Florida is on the Gulf Coast about due west of Ocala, and SW of Gainesville, where you find the University of Florida. It is not quite in the center of The Big Bend. (The extent of The Big Bend tends to change depending on who is doing the defining.)
At least 5 people staged a home-invasion robbery in Cedar Key, Florida on August 14th of this year. The homeowner shot one of them, Anthony Brown, who died of a gunshot wound at a local emergency center.
Four people have been arrested and are in jail charged with homicide. Their actions - the home invasion - lead directly to the death of their accomplice, Anthony Brown. In Florida, this is not an unheard of outcome, with the level of armed citizens in that state.
When someone is charged with murder because a death that occurred when they were committing a felony, such as home invasion, most of us laymen call that Felony Murder. The lawyers in different parts of the country call it by different names.
The case is not closed, as police are searching for more (or at least one more) suspects.
Deputies say that the homeowner is not being charged.
That is because Self-defense is a Human-right, and in Florida, it seems to be your legal right.
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