Marion County sheriff’s deputies were forced to taser a man late Friday night after reports of shots being fired in an Ocala neighborhood.
Multiple deputies arrived at the home located at 2428 SW 147th Place Rd., and found 30-year-old Jason O. Scott standing in his front yard. Deputies gave him several commands to show them his hands, but after doing so, he would put them behind his back, a sheriff’s office report states, adding that Scott told deputies that his gun was inside the house.
When deputies approached Scott, he stepped away from them toward his front door. He ignored several commands and pulled away from a deputy who grabbed his right arm. And he made it to his front door before a deputy deployed his taser and then put him in handcuffs.
Two neighbors told deputies that Scott came to their driveway and was yelling and accusing one of them of scratching his truck. The neighbor said Scott tried to kick him so he punched him several times in self-defense and the two fought for several minutes in three different places in the front yard. The neighbor said his mother then came outside and broke up the fright, so he went inside his residence.
A few minutes later, the neighbor said, his mother came into the house and told him that Scott had a gun. He said he heard several gunshots and then his mother called deputies for help.
The neighbor’s mother told deputies that after she broke up the fight, Scott said to her, “I’ve got something for you” as he walked away. She said he “came running down the street” a few minutes later and she could see a gun in his hand. And she said she ran inside her house in fear of her life before hearing the shots fired, the report says.
Deputies located 10 spent shell casings, with one being about 10 feet from the neighbor’s front door and the furthest being in the roadway between the two homes, the report says.
After being read his rights, Scott told deputies that he went to his neighbor’s house to talk about “problems the two have been having.” He claimed the neighbor punched him and walked away, so he went home and grabbed his gun before going back to the man’s house and firing “a few shots in anger.”
Scott was transported to the Marion County Jail and booked into the facility at 4:24 a.m. Saturday. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, battery, firing a weapon in public and resisting an officer without violence. He was released late Sunday night on $4,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in a Marion County courtroom on Sept. 4 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charges.