A Florida boy was killed by a police officer after the teenager went on a rampage and attacked his grandmother over a melted candy bar.
Florida boy shot by police after running over grandma
Teenager Henry Maynard got into heated fight with his grandmother after she bought him Almond Joy candy bar and left it for him on top of his computer while he was sleeping.
When he woke up and found it melted on top of his device, Maynard lost control and sprinted nearly a mile to his parents’ house.
From there, the unlicensed teen grabbed a bag, then stole a car that didn’t belong to him and was unregistered.
Oddly, Maynard made a frantic 911 call and told the dispatcher that he was about to do something very illegal.
“He tells the operator he’s about to commit a crime and he needs to be able to escape,” Sheriff Grady Judd detailed.
When he arrived at her house in Winter Haven, the grandmother called his parents and told them, “he’s here in the car and he’s in a rage.”
The teenager’s mother, a former Polk County detention deputy of ten years, and his father, a nurse, hurried to the home.
Polk County deputy Christian Quattlebaum arrived on the scene, and confronted Maynard along with his alarmed family members.
Florida boy tries to harm grandmother over candy bar
That’s when he reversed the vehicle into his 81-year-old grandmother and sent her flying to the ground.
Right after, he put the pedal to the metal and smashed into Quattlebaum’s vehicle. He then hopped out of the car and tried to get into the deputy’s.
A neighbor said that the teen jumped out of his vehicle in an absolute rage, like a madman, ran to the driver-side door of the deputy’s vehicle and started yanking on it ‘til it came open and started climbing into the vehicle,” Judd recounted.
He said that Quattlebaum was trying to get out of the passenger side of his vehicle as Maynard was trying to attack him.
Eventually, the sheriff’s deputy unholstered his weapon and shot the raging teenager. The boy’s father attempted to perform CPR to save him, but Maynard was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene.
Quattlebaum had to be treated for the injuries Maynard inflicted on him, and is under investigation by the Officer Involved Deadly Incident Task Force.
Caregiver faces life in prison for murdering charge
In another shocking incident, a former live-in caregiver from Illinois is looking at life in prison for murdering the 75-year-old woman he was caring for.
46-year-old Dmitri G. Rogatchev was sentenced to 60 years in a state correctional facility for the 2019 murder of Sandra Jackson.
He reportedly beat her to death after becoming homicidally mad about the volume of her television.
Prosecutors revealed that he “became frustrated with Sandra because she had the television on too loud.”
“While arguing over the noise, Rogatchev became enraged and hit and kicked Sandra, ultimately causing a fatal brain injury,” they stated.
Officers responded to a 911 call about an unconscious elderly woman at around 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2019.
First responders found Jackson inside the apartment still alive, but “not alert.” She was transported to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment.
Rogatchev told officers that Jackson had consumed wine with her prescription medication, including hydrocodone and muscle relaxers, earlier that evening and then went to bed.
He claimed that she got him up at around 2 a.m. to give her more medicine for her pain, but he denied her.
He said that Jackson fell to the floor as she walked back to her room. After the fall, he picked her up, placed her in a chair, and called 911 for help.
His story fell apart the next morning, when a hospital administrator told police that Jackson had “serious life-threatening injuries,” which doctors believed were caused by elder abuse.
Rogatchev was arrested the next day and initially charged with aggravated domestic battery. Once his charge died from her her injuries, he was slapped with murder charges.
Prosecutors said that Rogatchev’s version of events was discredited by evidence found by the hospital’s medical staff.
The emergency room doctor who treated Jackson reported, “there was not a drop of alcohol found in Sandra (Jackson’s) blood and that her brain injuries could not have happened from a fall.”
An autopsy later determined that Jackson’s cause of death was “severe intracranial hemorrhages in her brain, due to blunt force trauma,” and it was ruled a homicide.
When police questioned Rogatchev again, he admitted to hitting Jackson in the head in a fit of anger, but claimed he was too enraged to give them the exact details surrounding the incident.
A Peoria County jury found Rogatchev guilty of first-degree murder in Jackson’s death and he will serve 100% of his 60-year sentence.
