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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
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Shooting Determined To Be Accidental
(Homosassa) The shooting reported shortly before 10 a.m. on Wednesday off of U.S. 19
apparently was accidental and self-inflicted, according to Citrus County deputies.
The alleged victim, Tad Leach, 38, of Homosassa, who was shot in the leg, was
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transported to Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal River for treatment. He
was a passenger in the front seat of the vehicle, while his wife was driving and a second
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passenger was in the backseat.
The alleged victim finally admitted to detectives that the three of them had driven
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down to Spring Hill in order to have a sight mounted on his handgun. While coming back
to Homosassa, Leach was attempting to holster the gun when it discharged, striking him in
the leg.
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The case is still under active investigation as to why deputies were initially told
that a suspect approached on foot, shot into the vehicle and then fled the scene.
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The Sheriff’s Office had responded to the area earlier in the day with its helicopter,
ground units, K9 units and SWAT team. The agency also set up its mobile command post at
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the site. The scene has since been cleared, and no suspect is being sought.
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rested at 6:23 p.m., July 6, after a brief investigation by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Of-
fice. Moody was charged with armed robbery. He was held at the Citrus
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County Detention Facility on a bond of $50,000.
According to the arrest report, deputies responded to 560 E.
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Winnetka St. in Hernando, around 3:48 p.m., due to a complaint of a po-
tential robbery and car jacking. The victim stated he had been riding in
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the vehicle of a female friend after returning from a trip to a pain man-
agement clinic in Tampa, and when they came to a stop sign on Page St.,
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a man wearing a bandana on his face, and armed with a knife, demanded
his medications. The victim said that he and the suspect struggled, and he
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struck the suspect in the face and was able to flee with his medications.
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He said the suspect then jumped into the back seat of his friend’s vehicle and demanded that
she drive away, and she did.
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the scene of the incident. She told the deputies, that when the suspect demanded she drive
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When she got onto Hwy. 41, she said, the suspect had her pull over, and he fled into the
woods. At approximately 4:20 p.m., Detective Alexander arrived at the driver’s location
and interviewed her. She said the suspect approached her passenger and engaged him in a
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struggle in order to gain his medications. She said that the victim struck the suspect in the
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she drive, so she complied out of fear for her child’s safety. She said that she was upset and
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she then decided to return to check on the victim and was stopped by deputies on her way
there.
A neighbor told one of the deputies that she’d seen a person get out of the driver’s
vehicle when the driver returned home. However, the driver told Det. Alexander that no one
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else was in her vehicle when she arrived home, so he became suspicious that the driver may
have more involvement in the incident than was first believed. The driver then said it was
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her brother - Moody - and she had not mentioned him before, because she’d forgotten that
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she’d picked him up on her way home as he was walking down the street.
Dep. Alexander asked a deputy to ask the driver’s brother when was the last time
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