A man in central Florida was smoking a cigarette while on the phone with his mother when he was suddenly shot dead by his upstairs neighbor, authorities say.
David Richard Morris, 48, has been charged with second-degree murder without premeditation and discharging a firearm in a residential area in the death of 56-year-old Jeffrey Blevins, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. During Morris’ first appearance in court on Sunday, he was ordered to be held without bond.
On Thursday night, Blevins was outside of his first-floor residence at Fountain Place Apartments in Bartow, Florida, where he lived with his sister, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a Monday press conference. Blevins was smoking a cigarette and speaking to his mother on the phone…