Report: Suspect fired two rounds with deputies present investigating the incident.
Mowry
LIVE OAK — After threatening to shoot a Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, authorities say a Live Oak man proceeded to fire two rounds while they were still in the vicinity.
According to an SCSO report, a disturbance between neighbors around 9:30 p.m. Sunday escalated once deputies arrived at a residence off 85th Road in northeastern Suwannee County.
After deputies announced themselves multiple times at the residence, they proceeded to the backyard of the house where 68-year-old Joseph Mowry, of Live Oak, was located with his spouse.
But when officers approached him, Mowry threatened to “shoot” a sergeant as he rounded the corner of the house, the report states, adding a semi-automatic handgun was within reaching distance of the suspect.
The report states deputies believed Mowry was under the influence of alcohol as we was slurring words and had multiple empty alcohol bottles at his feet.
He was also “extremely hostile and violent” toward the deputies as they investigated the incident, according to the report.
When the officers left the property to speak with the neighbors, the report states Mowry then fired off two rounds in a “reckless and angry manner.” The report adds there are neighbors located on every side of the suspect’s property, many in close proximity.
Mowry was arrested and charged with improper exhibition of a firearm, use of a firearm under influence of alcohol, aggravated assault on an officer and firing a weapon in public or on a residential property.