The House Judiciary Committee just moved forward with a $750,000 payout for Patricia Ermini, a Lee County woman shot by deputies during a wellness check.
Rep. Dianne Hart-Lowman laid out what happened. Back in 2012, Ermini’s daughter, who lives out of state, couldn’t reach her mom and asked the sheriff’s office to check on her. A Lee County deputy parked around the corner, knocked, got no answer, and called for backup. Then, instead of leaving, the officers went in through an unlocked door. Ermini was asleep. They woke her up, guns already drawn, one of them an AR-15.
Startled, Ermini yelled that she had a gun. Deputies pushed into her bedroom and shot her several times: in the arm, in the thigh, and a bullet even grazed her head. She was 71…