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Homeless man arrested by SWAT Team Shots fired during Crystal River altercation

fragment embedded in youth’s thigh

Scott Lewis Buckner, 34, was arrested in Crystal River, Nov. 1, when an Ocala

woman reported she’d just been robbed at gunpoint by a man named “Scott” who was driv-

A 17 year-old male from Crystal River was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s

ing a maroon and black four-door Pontiac.

Office, just after 11:00 p.m., Nov. 3, at the Crystal River Mall , charged with two felonies,

The victim told deputies: She’d accepted a ride on Hwy. 40 in Ocala

aggravated battery using a deadly weapon (firearm) and shooting a projectile into a car oc-

from Buckner. He dropped-off a woman and male juvenile at a Citrus County

cupied by three 20 year-olds.

residence, then took her to an area near, N. Iguana Path and N. Lonesome Trail

The injured victim stated: There had been a fight, earlier in the day, at Crystal River

where he pointed a gun to the back of the her head and demanded her money

High School, and he’d been informed that the male (not the 17 year-old who was later ar-

($445). He placed her in a chokehold. She took the gun from him. They strug-

rested) wanted to fight, again. He followed the informant to N.W. 17th Ct. and N.W. 18th

gled. Her money dropped from her shorts as she fled. Buckner caught up to her Buckner

St. to speak with the male who wanted another fight. The male who wanted the fight was

as she was retrieving the money. They struggled. He took the money and left in

in a vehicle with two other males. He heard shots ring out and his vehicle being struck by

the car.

bullets. He saw the 17 year-old who was later arrested shoot a rifle in his direction. One of

Deputies located the car at 6589 W. Gannet Pl. in Crystal River. The SWAT Team

the projectiles struck his car s windshield, and a fragment struck his left inner thigh. He fled

went inside and took Buckner into custody.

to the CCSO s Crystal River substation. The injured victim s account of the incident was

Buckner told detectives: The woman had loaned him the vehicle. He drove her

corroborated by the two witnesses/victims who were with the injured victim and evidence.

around and purchased cocaine for her. Unhappy with his purchase, she’d hit and choked

The injured 20 year-old was transported to Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal

him. He’d pushed her out of the car, which he didn’t know was stolen, but he’d recently

River, where it was determined that a fragment was lodged in the muscle in his left inner

returned to Florida from W. Virginia (where the car was reported stolen from). He had not

thigh, but it was not removed.

pointed his pellet gun at the woman. He’d fled from deputies who’d asked him to stop at a

Deputies then spoke with the 17 year-old who was accompanied by his brother and

gas station. He’d removed the tag from the vehicle.

arrested in the parking lot of the Crystal River Mall. The 17 year-old arrestee said: He and

Buckner was charged with robbery with a firearm, theft of an auto, petit theft (li-

a friend had been involved in an altercation at the school, earlier in the day. He had since

cense plate), resisting an officer with violence (punching and kicking two deputies), fleeing

received threats that the three males (victims) were going to shoot him. When he and his

from a law enforcement officer, and knowingly driving while license cancelled or revoked

friend had gone to his home, a white car had suspiciously driven by, along with the victim’s

(failure to pay traffic fines). Buckner was held without bond due to being homeless. Buck-

black car, a pickup truck and possibly another vehicle. The vehicles had parked near the end

ner was also charged with resisting an officer without violence on Oct. 25 during an attempt

of his street. The victims had gotten out of their vehicles and popped-open the trunks. He

to arrest him on a warrant in Hernando and a warant for 2 counts of grand theft auto (bond

retrieved a lever-action 0.22 from behind the master bedroom door. As the victims walked

$4000) from May, 2011 and a warrant for violation of probation (original charge of driving

down the street, he thought he heard a pop as though someone had shot a small-caliber 0.25

with an expired driver’s license; bond $855). Buckner told detectives he’d planned to use

pistol, so he fired approximately ten shots toward the victims general direction, but made

the money he’d gotten for a motel room.

no attempt to hit them. The victims fled in their vehicles, and he returned the firearm to

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his home. He left with a friend until another friend showed-up and drove them to another

person’s house, where they stayed until his brother called, asking what had happened and

soon as the airplane took off, he heard the airplane spit and sputter, then watched it crash into

telling him that law enforcement officials were at the residence where the shooting had

a heavily wooded area just north of the air strip.

taken place. The deputy asked further questions, but the boy would not respond and stated

The sheriff’s office transferred the investigation to the Federal Aviation Adminis-

he wanted a lawyer, so the questioning ceased. The boy was transported to the Citrus County

tration and the National Transportation Safety Board on Nov. 6.

Detention Facility where arrangements were made to transport him to the Juvenile Assess-

ment Center. The suspect’s name is being with-held.

Youth charged as adult for attempted,

premeditated murder

Jacob Eugene Hoover, 17, 538 W. Barrymore Dr., Beverly Hills, was charged as an

adult after an incident on Oct. 19 at a residence in Beverly Hills. The original arrest report

stated that a 17 year-old girl was home alone at a W. Learwood Place residence around 3:00

a.m., when Hoover allegedly shot out a window, entered the home and told the girl she was

either going to have sex wit him or he was going to rape her. The girl stated that Hoover

struck her twice on her face, drug her by her hair down a hallway and stabbed her on her

shoulder. She pleaded with him, and he left, but threatened to kill her if she called law en-

forcement. Hoover was located later and taken into custody. The report stated that Hoover

told detectives he’d gone to the residence with the intention of killing the girl, but changed

his mind after assaulting her. He was charged with premeditated attempted murder, armed

burglary, sexual battery of a person 12 years-old or older and kidnapping with a firearm. He

was held without bond.

He was originally taken to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Ocala, but trans-

ferred to the Citrus County Detention Facility in Lecanto.

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