“Our gate guard was there to keep us safe, and now he’s dead,” Arlene Dyer said in tears. “Why?”
“It’s disturbing,” Dyer said. “It’s disturbing that I had the opportunity to get him and I didn’t.”
Dyer lives within the community and claims she saw a man matching Patterson’s description walking by her home around 9:15 Friday morning.
“I called 911,” she said. “I said, ‘he’s in my sights, but he’s walking really fast.'”
‘”I’m going to lose him,”‘ she said continuing to describe her phone call with dispatchers. “Do you want me to stop him?”
“They said no,” she described.
‘It’s disturbing’: Man, 81, killed in Hernando County, suspect taken into custody
He is remembered as a man who loved his job and would give the shirt off his back to anyone in need.
They say he had a kind soul and touched the lives of people like Dave Bittle who stopped at the guard house Friday to pray.
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A vigil will be held for Mead in front of the High Point Community’s guard house at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Vigil to be held for slain Hernando County man
Jeremy Patterson was arrested Friday in the death of a security guard at a senior living community in Brooksville, Florida. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office released a surveillance image when he remained on the loose and a mug shot after he was arrested. (HCSO)
81-year-old man killed while working security for senior community, cops say
Sounds like Ed was well loved by friends and family and had many friends in the community. I wonder what the motive was. Was Jeremy trying to access the community and Ed turned him away, Did Ed see him up to no good somewhere within the senior community?
such a shame.
