FL - Florida gunman killed 4, including mom still holding baby, Polk County, 5 Sept 2021

[sds71]

On Thursday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a news conference regarding the massacre of four people in Lakeland that occurred over the weekend.

The sheriff stated he is going to try to answer the question: "How did this evil person" find the victims?
Judd reiterated there was no relationship between Brian Riley, 33, and the victims, but investigators now know why he came across the victims in the first place.

Lakeland massacre: Sheriff says sex trafficking delusion drove 'well-trained' veteran to gun down family

 

[sds71]

Lakeland massacre: Sheriff says sex trafficking delusion drove 'well-trained' veteran to gun down family

 

[cvaldez1975]

i wonder if it will come out that he was enlightened by q. the trafficking blather makes me think so.

 

[cvaldez1975]

there is another child, a boy, on the victims fb... is he safe and accounted for?

 

[LizzyE]

A judge gave the defense of the man accused of killing four members of a North Lakeland family a third extension to file an intent to claim insanity in his case Friday.

Public defender Jane McNeill asked Circuit Judge J. Kevin Abdoney for another status conference to be scheduled this summer for Bryan James Riley, 33, of Brandon so the defense can continue to prepare to claim insanity in his case.
(...)
Abdoney scheduled Riley's next status conference for Aug. 12 at 8:30 a.m.
North Lakeland quadruple homicide: Defense gets a 3rd extension to claim insanity

 

[PayrollNerd]

He gets a 90 day extension which will be April 11, 2022. Nothing on the hearing schedule yet.

https://pro.polkcountyclerk.net/PRO.../yHQLTd9ISo6FgbsqhxpdwT13xSqIGxj2vwgOmjBcHpc=

 

[JerseyGirl]

from June:

Bryan Riley Plans Insanity Defense in Deaths of North Lakeland Family - LkldNow

Lawyers for quadruple murder defendant Bryan James Riley intend to argue that he was insane when he killed four people, including a 3-month-old infant, during a home-invasion attack in north Lakeland last September. “At the time of the offense, (Riley) suffered from a mental infirmity, disease...

www.lkldnow.com

 

[ifindedout]

Update from July 2023: case to be tried in 2024. DP for Riley's case will be grandfathered for unanimity. So far.

Judge rules jury must be unanimous on death penalty in Lakeland quadruple murder case

Polk County judge rules death penalty jury verdict must be unanimous in Lakeland quadrulple murder case against Bryan Riley.

www.theledger.com

The jury to be convened next year for the Bryan Riley quadruple murder trial must come to a unanimous decision in order to recommend a death penalty should he be found guilty, a judge in Polk County has ruled.

But the ruling issued by Circuit Judge Kevin Abdoney on Wednesday in the 10th Judicial Circuit might not be the final say on the matter.

By email on Friday, Assistant State Attorney Jacob Orr said, “We are appealing that order.”

His colleague and prosecutor on the case, Lauren M. Perry, filed a motion to use Florida’s new law that allows a judge to impose the death penalty after a jury vote of 8-4. Previously, state law required a jury to be unanimous in recommending capital punishment.

 

[PayrollNerd]

2021CF006615A000XX
RILEY, BRYAN

I forgot all about this case. Hella Jury Trial next year. Holy Moly!

Court Date	Court Time	Motion
6/27/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/26/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/25/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/24/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/23/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/20/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/19/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/18/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/17/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/16/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/13/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/12/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/11/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/10/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/9/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/6/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/5/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/4/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/3/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/2/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/30/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/29/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/28/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/27/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/23/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/22/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/21/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/20/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/19/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
7/18/2024​	8:30 AM​	STAT - STATUS CONFERENCE
4/19/2024​	10:00 AM​	STAT - STATUS CONFERENCE

Docket

https://pro.polkcountyclerk.net/PRO/PublicSearch/Details/yfjiTnznCUbj89aj9Xub9w5hoiKTQzVXHGz2v9je4E8%3d

 

[dotr]

May 31, 2024

6th DCA upholds 8-4 death penalty votes, even for crimes that occurred before law change

6th DCA decision on Friday keeps death penalty jury recommendations at 8-4 for now.

www.yahoo.com

''There's been some legal tussling over the application of the law in state courts.

Last year in the case of Bryan Riley, accused of killing four members of a North Lakeland family in a predawn home invasion in 2021, 10th Circuit Judge J. Kevin Abdoney ruled that the jury would need to be unanimous in its recommendation of the death penalty, citing the ex post facto clause.

After that ruling in the Riley case, the 5th DCA in Daytona Beach upheld the 8-4 threshold in Florida vs. Victorino.''

 

[c@tw0man]

2021CF006615A000XX
RILEY, BRYAN

I forgot all about this case. Hella Jury Trial next year. Holy Moly!

Court Date	Court Time	Motion
6/27/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/26/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/25/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/24/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/23/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/20/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/19/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/18/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/17/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/16/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/13/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/12/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/11/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/10/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/9/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/6/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/5/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/4/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/3/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
6/2/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/30/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/29/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/28/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/27/2025​	8:30 AM​	JTRL - JURY TRIAL
5/23/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/22/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/21/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/20/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
5/19/2025​	8:00 AM​	JSEL - JURY SELECTION
7/18/2024​	8:30 AM​	STAT - STATUS CONFERENCE
4/19/2024​	10:00 AM​	STAT - STATUS CONFERENCE

Docket
View attachment 507563

https://pro.polkcountyclerk.net/PRO/PublicSearch/Details/yfjiTnznCUbj89aj9Xub9w5hoiKTQzVXHGz2v9je4E8%3d

I remember when this hit the news, I was horrified. I had forgotten about it also, it seems there is always another sicko perpetrator causing death and destruction to innocent folks who are just living our lives. Heartbreaking and terrifying at the same time.