COCOA, Fla. – A man who authorities say shot another man while defending himself at a Cocoa laundromat told a 911 operator that he didn't want to seriously injure the other man.
Cocoa Police Department officials said D'Montrio Davis, 23, called 911 shortly after shooting Antoine Luke, 26, at a laundromat on Dixon Boulevard Monday afternoon. Davis is not facing charges because witnesses corroborated his statements that Luke was the aggressor.
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"I was trying to get my clothes out of the car and some dude come up to me and he's dropping his bag and he's trying to ask me, 'What's up, what's up?' And he swung at me," Davis told a 911 operator.
He also told the operator that he repeatedly tried to diffuse the situation.
"He swung at me, I told him to back up. He swung at me and I told him to backup and he rushed at me again and I just shot him in his leg. I didn't want to hurt him, like, bad, but I just shot him in the leg," Davis said in a 911 call.
A woman who was driving by at the time of the shooting and stopped to help told emergency dispatch officials that Luke was breathing shallowly, bleeding heavily and had trouble maintaining consciousness.
"He is shot and it looks like it's an artery," the woman said, adding that the wound was on his inner left thigh.
The woman stayed with Luke and applied pressure to the injury until first responders arrived and transported to an area hospital.
Officials said one of Davis' brothers dated one of Luke's sisters about three months ago and it's possible that unresolved drama from that relationship played a role in Monday's shooting.