A 19-year-old boy killed his parents at their Florida home and shot an officer in a gunfight that was caught on the injured deputy’s bodycam before the teen was fatally shot Saturday night, after 11 p.m.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Christos Alexander Themelis Jr. fatally shot his 51-year-old father Christos Byron Themelis inside the home and then his 48-year-old mother Rebecca Ann Themelis on the front lawn in front of officers.
Deputies initially rushed to the house when police received a ‘frantic’ 911 call from the shooter’s mother who told dispatch her son had just shot her husband as more gunfire rang out, Sheriff Chad Chronister said.
MOTHER ‘GOES’ DOWN
While the mother was in the front yard, the son mercilessly blasted her in the back of the head as the woman was instructed by law enforcement to walk to them.
HE ATTACKED OFFICERS
He then opened fire on the responding deputies … deputy Shane McGough, 26, was shot in the leg.
He underwent surgery Sunday morning to pull a bullet from his leg.
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Christos Themelis (the teen) was also shot during the exchange of gunfire with four other deputies. Badly wounded, he crawled back into the house and barricaded himself inside.
The sheriff’s SWAT team charged into the house shortly after and found Themelis and his father both dead from gunshot wounds … Themelis is believed to have died of the injuries he suffered in the shoot-out.
