INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A Gifford man will spend nearly three decades in prison after deputies said he fatally shot a Brevard County teen during a drug deal turned armed robbery two years ago. The teenager was initially left paralyzed, then went comatose and died in August 2023.
Circuit Court Judge Robert Meadows found the shooter – Antonio Woods – guilty of second-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder with a weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, burglary of an occupied conveyance with assault or battery while armed and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Meadows sentenced Woods to 27.5 years at the Florida Department of Corrections, according to Assistant State Attorney Bill Long, who prosecuted the case.
Meadows handed down the ruling on July 17 at the Indian River County Courthouse. Woods, 23, was represented by Assistant Regional Counsel Attorneys J. Renee Wilkins, Jerome A. Stone Jr. and Donald Chinquina…