State drops charge against Key Largo shooter(FL)

A Key Largo businessman facing a gun charge that carries a mandatory 25-year prison sentence saw the case against him dropped Jan. 24. Dimitrios Theodosiou, 62, was charged Dec. 13 with aggravated battery with a firearm after shooting a man on Theodosiou's Poinsettia Drive property at 1 a.m. The apparent intruder, Marlon Perez Monzon, 18, was wounded in the ankle after he tried to escape by scrambling over a fence. Prosecutors and investigators initially concluded the shooting was not covered under the state's Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground laws that allow people to defend themselves when in fear of...   (More)