Bryan Riley allegedly told a detective, 'They begged for their lives and I killed them anyway'
A former Marine who was taking methamphetamine and described himself as a "survivalist" allegedly went on a shooting rampage in central Florida early Sunday morning, killing four members of a family and wounding an 11-year-old girl, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.The alleged shooter, 33-year-old Bryan Riley, then barricaded him in the victims' home and got into a shootout with police before eventually surrendering.
Judd said that Riley originally went to the home in Lakeland, Florida around 7:30 p.m. Saturday night and allegedly told one of the eventual victims, "I’m here to talk to Amber, you see, God sent me here because she’s going to commit suicide."
The man and another person at the house told Riley to leave then called 911, who searched for him in the area but couldn't find him.
Riley returned to his home in Brandon, Florida, roughly 30 minutes away, and got into a brief non-violent argument with his girlfriend, Judd said.
About nine hours later, Riley returned to the home of the victims in Lakeland. A sheriff's deputy in the area heard "two volleys of automatic gunfire" around 4:30 a.m.
When the deputy got to the house, he noticed a truck on fire in the front yard and a trail of glow sticks leading from the road to the home, leading police to fear that the property could be booby-trapped. The first deputy at the scene also saw the suspect outside of the house in camouflage.
"The suspect runs into the house and then there’s another volley of gunshots and they could hear a woman crying and a baby whimpering," Sheriff Grady said Saturday.
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Florida police: Self-described 'survivalist' on meth shoots and kills 4, including baby clinging to mother
"It was an evil, evil, evil act by a very well-trained military person who knew better and still did it," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told Fox News of a former Marine and self-described "survivalist" who allegedly went on a shooting rampage in central Florida early Sunday morning, killing...
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