Man accused of shooting convicted sexual predator faces attempted murder charge

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Gregory Sheffield was besides charged with amerciable weapon possession

Gregory Sheffield mug changeable provided by Clay County Sheriff's Office. (News4JAX.com)

MIDDLEBURG, Fla – One number of attempted execution has been charged against a Middleburg antheral accused of shooting different man.

According to an apprehension warrant, Gregory Sheffield, 32, was taken into custody aboriginal Saturday greeting pursuing a study of a disturbance the nighttime before.

The disturbance telephone led deputies to Sheffield’s location connected Bob White Drive wherever Sheffield was with his wife, investigators said. The study states that astir the aforesaid time, deputies and EMS were tending to a gunshot unfortunate connected Beehive Road. According to the report, the gunshot unfortunate had the aforesaid location code arsenic Sheffield.

The study states the unfortunate was changeable successful the near precocious limb and taken to Orange Park Medical Center to beryllium treated for his injury.

Sheffield and his woman were taken to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office for questioning, but the speech betwixt the mates and investigators was redacted from the apprehension port.

An researcher wrote successful the study that Sheffield did not person a justifiable crushed to forestall the gunshot unfortunate from leaving the area. The researcher besides wrote successful the study that the shooting was not justified.

In summation to attempted execution charges, Sheffield was besides charged with amerciable weapon possession due to the fact that helium is not expected to person a weapon aft being convicted successful Nassau County successful 2011 for expansive theft car and failing to halt for a instrumentality enforcement officer.

The unfortunate survived his wounded and was besides arrested aft being discharged from the infirmary due to the fact that helium is simply a convicted intersexual predator who, according to deputies, failed to study his existent location address, which was the aforesaid code arsenic the idiosyncratic accused of shooting him.

The gunshot unfortunate was convicted backmost successful 1997 successful Charlton, Georgia connected a complaint of attempted rape, records show. Documents besides amusement helium was convicted successful Clay County backmost successful 2012 for failing to comply with enactment offender registration.

As of Monday, the gunshot unfortunate remained successful the Clay County Jail without enslaved portion Sheffield remained successful the aforesaid jailhouse connected a $100,000 bond.