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Update: Suspect Shot By Escambia Deputies Now Charged With Attempted Homicide
December 18, 2024
A suspect was shot by Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies Tuesday night., and he is now jailed on charges that include attempted homicide.
Darrion Kanye Finley, 20, was charged with attempted homicide of a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding with lights and siren, possession of a firearm by convicted felon, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, and deadly missiles (shooting into a vehicle). He was booked into the Escambia County Jail Wednesday morning without bond.
Just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, deputies attempted a traffic stop on a reported stolen vehicle at Aquamarine Avenue and Kentucky Drive.
“The suspect fled, initiating a pursuit that was eventually terminated using a PIT maneuver,” ECSO said in a statement Monday night. “After being stopped, the suspect, armed with a handgun, fired shots toward deputies from within the vehicle and after exiting the vehicle with the handgun. The deputies then returned fire, striking the suspect.”
Finleyt was transported to an area hospital and later released. No deputies were injured.
Per protocol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the officer-involved shooting.
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12 Responses to “Update: Suspect Shot By Escambia Deputies Now Charged With Attempted Homicide”
Thank you ECSO! This was my car he stole! I hope yall charge him with possession of stolen property
@JKH
You took the words right out of my mouth! Way to put it out there!
Mark: are deputies required to wear body cameras?
He drove a stolen car. He refused to stop. He fired a gun at the deputies. Convicted felon in possession of a gun. His defense will be that he had to steal a vehicle so he could go to church …. What more do you need?
I hope all deputies wear bullet proof vests – not so much concerned about cameras
Are the deputies in Escambia Florida required to wear body cameras?
You know we use to have a thing called the chain gang where if you were elected to spend the rest of your natural life locked up you had to also work to earn your keep now days these criminals get to sleep all day if they like 3 meals use of a pay phone snacks oh yeah they also have access to little tablets to use. Why don’t we go back to chaining them together giving them a rake shovel sledgehammer let them clear the ditches pickup trash smash rocks pave the roads you know the county has a lot of enforstucture that needs work that they could save a bunch of money using these hadcore criminals ( this said laughing) to actually pay for their crime against our communities instead of coddling them and giving them their rights back that they chose to loose by doing whatever it was they got caught doing. Stop waisting tax payer money allowing them to do nothing they are owned by the state make them pay. As an ex CO they have more rights than the average American citizens do.
A convicted felon in possession of a weapon? Say it ain’t so
When he pulled that trigger he said , I don’t mind being locked up the rest of my life .
Thank you LEOs for upholding the law in spite of all the flack to which you are subjected by some in our present society. Law abiders appreciate you. So .glad you came out of this incident unharmed. May God always have your six.
Well done deputies the community is a little safer!
Thankfully all deputies are safe. The world is a little better with one that would do evil removed. Well done!
Shoot center mass less likely to need hospital services.
Thank you, deputies, for your bravery while in the line of gun fire.