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A teenager was allegedly caught in the act while trying to steal a car Sunday and was shot by the vehicle’s owner, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
The 15-year-old was taken to a local hospital, where he was arrested and charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and burglary of a vehicle.
The ECSO announced the teenager’s arrest Monday via social media and simultaneously released a written statement from Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons.
“We encourage people to lock their doors, but just because a car is left unlocked does not give anyone the right to take it,” Simmons said in the written statement. “A criminal broke into his car. A criminal stole his car. A criminal physically attacked him. A criminal got shot. We have no intention of charging the homeowner.”
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If we re involved in an officer-involved shooting, we ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct the investigation, but if you get the body cameras and the intent is to be transparent, then I think you should be transparent whenever something happens whether it s good or bad, Simmons said. Unless it has the potential to compromise or jeopardize an investigation, I m of the opinion that we would put out the information as quickly and openly as we possibly can.
The ECSO is not the only local enforcement agency to recently acquire body cameras with the assistance of the federal CARES Act. In January, Santa Rosa County Commissioners unanimously approved allocating $1.5 million in CARES Act funds to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office to offset the department s budget costs, and the SRSO spent a portion of the money it saved on its own first-ever body cameras.