“At that moment in time, we heard another volley and a woman scream and a baby whimper,” Judd said.Ī lieutenant tried to enter the front of the house, but it was barricaded. There, they saw a man wearing camo who quickly fled inside the home.
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A series of glow sticks were laid out on the yard forming a path, Judd said. On arrival, deputies discovered a truck on fire and heard popping noises from the vehicle. Deputies responded and calls reporting an active shooting began coming in as well, the sheriff said. Sunday, a deputy two miles away heard two volleys of automatic gunfire. The caller, joined by Gleason, told the man to leave and that they would call the police, spurring the man to leave the scene.Ī deputy responded within six minutes and did not find the suspect or the car at the residence, Judd said.Ībout nine hours later, at about 4:30 a.m. The caller did not have a daughter named Amber, but the man refused to leave, the sheriff said. The caller said the man had parked outside their house and claimed that God had sent him there because a girl named “Amber” was going to die by suicide, according to a criminal affidavit. The incident began Saturday evening when a woman called authorities about a suspicious man, believed to be Riley, making odd statements at their home. Another child who had earlier been missing was located alive and well, Judd said. The family’s pet dog, Diogi, was also shot and killed.Īn 11-year-old girl had been shot multiple times and was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital for surgery. She had been hiding in her closet, according to an affidavit.Įach of the victims has multiple gunshot wounds, the affidavit said. The baby’s 62-year-old grandmother was also found dead in a second house on the property, Judd said. Inside a home on the property, a 40-year-old man named Justice Gleason, a 3-month-old baby and the baby’s 33-year-old mother were found dead.
Riley was appointed a public defender and will be held in Polk County Jail, according to Sudzina.įour people were killed in the shooting and a child was wounded by gunfire, authorities said.
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Riley appeared in a Florida court Monday morning before Judge Heather Beato, who ordered him held without bond on the four murder counts, according to the 10th Circuit Trial Court Administrator Nick Sudzina. He now faces four counts of first-degree murder as well as charges of attempted murder, arson, armed burglary and shooting into a building, according to a criminal affidavit. “I want to confess to all of it and be sent to jail.” He shot the infant “because I’m a sick guy,” he allegedly said. Riley admitted to deputies that he shot several people and “stated voices and ‘God’ told him to do it,” according to the criminal affidavit. Authorities identified the suspect as Bryan Riley, a 33-year-old who lives in Brandon, about a 45-minute drive from the scene of the shooting.
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