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See that, when I walk down there, I see the guy run into his house and then he comes out with a gun and starts shooting at me. Turn around. Stop right there. Stop right there. Turn around. Turn around. Suspect grabs her by the arms and starts shaking her. >> Yes or no? On YouTube, TikTok, I've seen this man before. >> do August 31st, 2025. It's a Sunday night in Palm Bay, Florida and like most Sunday nights in this quiet suburban community, things are pretty uneventful. That is until around 10:00 p.m. when a high priority call drops over the police radio and everything changes. All units, shots fired, confirmed by the complaintant. At this point, the information officers are working with is limited. Shots fired at a residence on Clover Street. The 911 caller is still inside the home is claiming to be the shooter and his reason, fear for his safety. That's it. No independent account, no confirmed injuries and no way of knowing whether that man was still armed or how he would react when police showed up at his door. So, units start rolling and fast because when you pull up to a scene like that, you don't get the luxury of assuming everything is fine. Within minutes, officers have someone detained outside the home. Hey, let me see your hands. Keep your hands up. Let me see your hands. I'm over here. Walk down to the sound of my voice OR YOU WILL GET DOG BIT. WALK DOWN THE DRIVEWAY TO THE SOUND OF MY VOICE. Walk down to the driveway with the sound of my voice. Walk down to the driveway of the sound of my voice. KEEP YOUR HANDS UP. KEEP your hands up and walk down to the driveway. He's telling me to walk to walk to walk. Yep, hold on. Yep, keep walk just keep walking. Keep walking. Okay, keep walking. Keep walking. Oh, my god. No, keep walking. Hold on. Keep walk Keep walking. Keep walking. Yeah, keep walking. Let's go. Keep walking. Brooke, turn around. I'll take over. Turn around. Stop right there. Stop right there. Just turn around. Turn around. This is Roman Rewicki, 50 years old, Palmbay resident, and father of young children who were at the home that night. Just minutes earlier, he told 911 that he had discharged a firearm. According to him, a stranger showed up on his property, and he feared for himself and his family. Now, that might sound straightforward, but in these situations, the story someone tells dispatch and the story the evidence tells investigators don't always line up. And law enforcement is about to find out exactly where those two versions diverge. As Rewicki gets walked to a patrol car for a more thorough search and further questioning, the officers who remain at the scene have one immediate priority: clear the residence. Make sure nobody else is inside, and make sure there's no ongoing threat. Under these circumstances, they don't need a warrant for that. This is what's known as a protective sweep, a limited lawful entry focused entirely on officer and public safety. Palmbay Police Department, if you're inside the house, make yourself known. Palmbay Police Department, if you're inside, make yourself known. All right, you guys ready? Yep. Yep. They're all on the left. Got open doors left and right. With the scene contained, investigators turn their attention to the next logical step: getting the suspect's side of the story. That turns out to be easier said than done. Right out of the gate, Ruwiki is uncooperative, complaining the handcuffs are too tight, talking over officers, ignoring basic instructions. And when an officer attempts to Mirandize him so they can get into the details of what happened, things go sideways pretty quickly. What are we doing? We're going right there, white truck. What for? Cuz we said so. Yeah, can you lock my door? Yeah, we're not worried about that right now. Come on, man. We got police informed your door. Nobody's going to go inside your door. Yeah, not now, but later. See? All right. I know how this works. Yeah, just sit right there. I never have been arrested. I have no criminal record. >> listen. I'm going to I'm going to pat you down. Do you have any weapon on you? No. Okay. Zero. I got my keys. All right. Okay. Please lock my door, front door. Okay. We'll get that here in a little bit, then. Yeah. What is your name? My name? Sterns. Oh. [ __ ] I should have stepped right here. Mhm. Step over here. I can not move it. Yeah, this case is so important. Okay, we're we're going to go in here, okay? Just Just sit right here. Yeah. Double check him. Yeah, double check him. You guys are not real guys, okay? Turn your head this way. Okay, check. Hold this. You guys are Turn around and have a seat. Have a seat. Have a seat. I know how this works. Okay, well, have a seat. I've said it three times. Have a seat. Can you put this in the front? Listen, no, we cannot. Turn and face me. Yeah. Turn and face me. It's going to be It's going to be a lot easier. Okay. There is key to my house, right here in the my right pocket. >> about it right now, all right? Have a seat. Can you lock my Have a seat. Can you lock my door? >> your house already. I told you. Have a seat. All right. Listen, I'm going to read this to you. I need you listen very carefully. All right, do you understand? Yeah. All right. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand? I don't answer anything right now because uh I'm going to I'm going to finish. When I finish, just let me finish. All right. >> No, it doesn't work like this. I'm reading you your rights. All right, so listen. Uh you have the right to remain silent. >> Whatever you want to say. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You hurt me. You hurt me with your handcuffs. >> you to listen. You hurt me with your handcuffs. And uh What's What's your >> I was trying to talk to you. What's your name? Yeah, this Once I read you this, if you want to talk, we can talk. I can't talk to you until I read you this. All right, so just listen. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to your lawyer and have him or her present with you while you are being questioned. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent you before any question, if you wish. You can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any question or make any statements. Do you understand the rights I have explained to you? Who is going to >> I need Listen, I need a yes or no. Do you understand the rights I have I've read to you? >> going into in my house? You got search warrant? Listen. Warrant for what? We're right here right now. We're right here. You're with me. All right. Who Who actually allowed you to search my house? >> What's your name, sir? Who allowed you to search my house? >> What's your name? Who allowed you to my search my house? >> name? It doesn't work like this. You came to me. Yeah. >> for with no warrant. Do you understand the rights I have And you're in my house with no warrant. My kids just left. Okay. I can't talk to you. Do you understand the rights I have I'm going to read them to >> 11 and 14 year old I'm going to read this to you one more time. All right, I'm going to read this to you one more time. And my ex picked them up and that woman showed up in my house right here. >> you going to listen to him or we're just going to shut the door, man, and we'll figure it out. When you're ready, I'll read this to you again, okay? Yeah, but man Let him Yep. Think about it for a second, I guess. Dude, you can only hear the same thing so many times in a row. With Rowicky's constant interruptions making it impossible to get through the Miranda warning, officers decide to pump the brakes. They shut the cruiser door and give him some time to cool off, hoping a few minutes of quiet might make him a little more receptive. Around the same time, investigators get new information. A nearby resident has just called 911. He tells dispatch that he and his partner were shot at by a man at the exact same address where Rowicky is currently detained. Now, there's a second to count. So, while some officers hold the scene, others move out to the couple's location to hear it first hand. And what those officers are about to learn will start to paint a very different picture of what happened on Clover Street that night. Yeah, I see him. I'm going to talk to him in a minute. What's What's going on, sir? Thank you. What's going on, guys? So, what happened? Uh so My girl what I guess she stopped down at that guy's house. I just started seeing this girl. She went to the wrong house. Mhm. She's inside. All right. So, she went to the wrong house. And when she got she got down there, I guess she went to knock on the door. Hold on. I'll I'll get her. I'll get her. Hey, guy. I'll get her out of my house, okay? What's not going to go in your house. I'm not going to go in your house. Just knock on the door and talk. I'll tell her to come out. I'll tell her to come out. What's going on? So, I walk I walked down there cuz she called me. She was like, "Hey, this guy is this guy is grabbing me." And I hear I hear her on the phone say >> her? I hear her on the phone say, "Ow, let me go. Let me go." I'm like, "What's going on? What's going on?" She's like, "I thought I was at your house. Please come outside cuz I'm at your house." We just started seeing each other. She went down to that guy's house there. She went up there and the guy grabbed her, threw her on the ground, and hurt and hurt her. And so, I walked down there and I just I walked down there. He I see him run inside and I get in her car and she's like, "Let's go. Let's go." And and the [ __ ] we start leaving and there's a car behind her car, too. I don't know whose car that is, either. And we start leaving and the guy starts [ __ ] shooting at her car. There's bullet holes in the back of her car and her tire's flat. And we shot There's a bullet hole up right there. And this tire's flat. You can see he obviously hit the tire somewhere. I don't know where, but this tire's flat. Up, there. Was it over there? I don't know. That's [ __ ] you know well bold. Yeah. So, it really hit hit hit right there. Finish. So, look right there. I'd leave it there. That's an acorn. Yeah, don't don't Yeah, don't touch it. >> Okay, cool. Yeah, and then you see the bullet hole right here. And the tire's flat. I said the tire's flat. She was driving though. So, she drove all the way here. Mhm. She went to the wrong house. The guy grabbed her and assaulted her. All right, so he fired at the vehicle. Yeah, we got we got we just left. We tried to leave. We weren't trying to do anything. I'm just trying to She's just trying to come over to my house. That's all that's going on. Did he say anything or what did he say? I heard on the phone he was calling her a prostitute. He was calling her a prostitute, right? And then he And then he slammed her on the ground. And so she called me and all I can hear is >> on. I get you obviously amped up and what's going on, but to preserve the integrity of the investigation, we typically talk to people separately. Come down here. We'll continue talking. So, you guys got shot at. And you guys came down here, came inside, and that's when you guys called? You were out on the street. And he didn't say like there's no verbal and no nothing. I didn't hear anything. I saw I I So, she called like I said, she called me. I'm hearing someone I'm hearing a man's voice in the background. And she's saying, "Let go of me. Let go of me. Let go of me." And I hear this guy saying, "She's prostitute." Like he's like got a hard Eastern European accent saying, "She's prostitute." or some [ __ ] like that. By the time I get down there, I see that when I walk down there, I see the guy run into his house and then he comes out with a gun and starts shooting at us. Did you see what the gun looked like? No. No, I just saw him with a [ __ ] gun in his hand. He saw me against dark. It's like this. You know what I mean? So, and she was parked like So, if this is his driveway, she was parked like kind of like right in front of like where my mailbox would be on on the street. So, and was there any verbal altercation between you two? No, hell no. I don't Yeah, no. I I I said I got down there. When I got down there, I saw him run into his house. Mhm. So, yeah, I don't I don't know that's all that happened. The guy started shooting at the [ __ ] car. I don't know why he's shooting at our car. Yep. For the first time that night, a clearer picture starts to emerge. According to the male victim, identified in police reports only as WP, his girlfriend, referred to as TP, was on her way to his place. First time she'd ever been there. But somewhere along the way she ended up at the wrong address. That address happened to be Roman Rewicki's house. WP tells officers that when TP approached the home, Rewicki allegedly grabbed her, called her a sex worker, and physically restrained her. And this wasn't just a verbal account. Officers could see it. Visible bruising on TP's arm and wrist consistent with someone who had been grabbed and held against their will. Despite that, she managed to get to her phone and call WP for help. When WP showed up moments later, Rewicki didn't come back outside to talk. He went back inside, retrieved a firearm, and opened fire. And here's what makes that decision even more staggering. This was all happening in the middle of a custody exchange. Rewicki's own children were present at that address that night in the process of being handed off to their mother. Those kids didn't just hear the gunshots. They witnessed them firsthand. Now, that's one side of the story. And in any investigation, one side of the story is just a starting point. So officers head back to the patrol car and make another run at Mirandizing Rewicki, hoping this time the conversation might actually go somewhere. I'm I'm going to try this again. All right. Hey, so what the hell's going on? Listen. All right. I'm We're going to try this again. Can I get your name so that way I can address you? Yeah, I'm Roman Rawicki. Roman? Yeah, can you lose this a little bit? It's hurting me. Roman, before I do anything, right? Yeah, I promise you I ain't I'm not the the guy you're looking for, you guys. So Roman, Roman, Roman. I promise you. >> Okay. All right, that's good. That's good. It It is loose. All right. But hey, It's not If it's If it's too tight, and let me read this to you, Roman. All right, let me read this to you, and then that way we can continue. All right? I can't continue on anything else until I read this to you. All All right? So, listen carefully real quick. All right? You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. All right? You have the right to talk to your lawyer and have him or her present with you while you are being questioned. If you If you cannot afford a lawyer, if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent you before any question if you wish. You can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any question or make any statements. All right? Do you understand the rights I have explained to you? Sure. All right, I need a yes or no. I seen this on TikTok. This is not TikTok. This is real like real life, right? >> the Do you Do you understand the rights I explained to you? Yes or no? >> YouTube, TikTok, I seen this many times. >> the rights I have explained to you? I need a yes woman a yes or no. Probably yes, probably not. Yeah. I been never in this situation. Or no? I never been in this situation before. car and this handcuffs actually is holding me. It's not a handgun. It No, yeah. >> hey. No, no. We tried to talk to you again. We'll wait again. Yeah. Still unable to get through the Miranda warning, officers once again shut the cruiser door and gave her Wiki another chance to cool off. Meanwhile, back at the scene, investigators begin recovering key pieces of evidence. Well, I don't know what we can do. It's your lawyer. Yeah. Um No, she She's got cones. I got I got I got two left. Are we able to um Can somebody go meet with this dude right here? Scattered across the roadway in front of the house, officers begin collecting spent shell casings. By the time they finish counting, the number is hard to ignore. Seventeen. Seventeen separate rounds were fired into a quiet residential street. Investigators also document bullet damage to nearby vehicles, confirming that some of those rounds didn't just disappear into the night. They struck property. As officers canvassed the neighborhood and knocked on nearby doors, they located a woman who said she had witnessed the shooting. Hey, it's the police department. Hello, she's coming to the door, officer. Okay, thank you. I've been trying to keep them calm. Yeah, I got you. Hi, it's the police department. Hello, police department. Did you hear the shots? I saw the guy. You saw the guy? >> I just pulled in to drop my daughter off here. Okay. >> And I I looked at the cameras and I said, "Why are those two cars parked there?" And she goes, "Mom, stop being nosy." So, as I got out my car, um I looked over there and there was a white guy with a gun in his hand. Okay. And my daughter was still in the car. And I run here and I was screaming like, "Open the door cuz I heard gunfire start going off." I was worried that she had got hit or something. I don't know. Okay. Well, we have him in custody, so that's good. Um so, I'm I'm trying to see there's cameras in the house. Yeah. Did Did it capture anything? I don't think so. I don't think so. >> When he was holding the gun, was he pointing it at somebody or was he holding it in the air? >> came out the car, so he had the gun like ready. Okay. And that's when There was definitely over 30 rounds, I would say. 30 rounds? A lot of rounds. I don't even know if my car got hit. I don't even know if my car got hit. >> Yeah, I was looking at it. I didn't see it, but I'll double check it again. Um Okay, do you have ID with you? Yeah. I have put the keys back. I'm shaking so badly. Well, we have it under control now, so Yeah. Oh, yeah, I can only imagine. Everything's good now. He He He's in our custody, so. Then no one got hurt? Nope. Oh my god, the amount of gun shots that was going off. And she she ducked down in my car, and I was like in here trying to call you guys, and I didn't know if my daughter is dead or alive or what. So, you were outside when this all happened, too? >> Yeah, she was in the car. She ducked down. And just like that, within a relatively short window of time, investigators are already building a case. It starts with the victim's statements. What TP and WP described to officers gave investigators their first foothold. Enough to establish initial probable cause for several potential charges. And the physical evidence is backing it up. The bruising on TP's arm and wrist doesn't just tell a story on its own, it corroborates her account of being grabbed and restrained. In the eyes of the law, that kind of observable injury is exactly the type of evidence that supports charges like battery and false imprisonment. Then there's the ballistic evidence. 17 spent shell casings were eventually recovered from the roadway. A firearm was seized at the scene, and the bullet damage to nearby vehicles tells investigators these rounds were traveling through an occupied residential neighborhood and striking property. Under Florida law, that kind of conduct can support charges ranging from discharging a firearm on residential property all the way up to something far more serious, particularly when the evidence suggests those rounds may have been directed at people who were actively trying to flee. So, at this point, even before a single detective has formally sat down with Ruwiki, the outline of this case is already taking shape. And with that, officers head back to the patrol car for one more attempt at getting his side of the story. You want to try reading that to him again? Yeah. We're going to pull him out anyway, so. I don't All right. Roman. I ask you if I can talk to you. Yes, but listen, Roman, before I talk to you Yeah. >> I have to read you your rights. The last Roman, the last thing I want to do is violate um I'm not sure how the [ __ ] up the law is here. If before I take lawyer, if I can even talk to you, okay? >> Exactly. And this is why I'm reading you this. >> So I I don't understand this [ __ ] Yeah, and this will explain it. >> Yeah, but I don't understand. Once Once you read this >> I say yes, but I don't understand this, okay? >> So So So I'm going to read this, right? And that's why at the end it asks you, right? >> So I'm going to read it one more time. If you don't understand and you feel like you don't understand, you make a sound judgment of saying yes or no. So I tell you what happens. >> No. No. No. No. No. No. I can't talk to you unless I read you this. I can't talk to you. Cuz if I talk to you, then I'm viol- violating um I'm violating your rights, and I don't want to do that. See, and I don't want to risk whatever you else you're going to got into mix up and uh No. Bye. >> against me, whatever you're going to twist it. So Roman. Roman. >> communist socialist country. >> Yeah. Roman, I've been with you >> years ago, okay? >> Can you listen? Can you listen? >> Yeah, so >> As soon as you step out the door I don't understand and I can't trust you guys because uh I know what they did before. Yes. Okay. And doing right now, so I That I have no idea what you're talking about. What they did before and doing right now. All I know is me and you right here. I've been with you the whole time. >> my house right now. Listen. >> warrant. I Can I ask you a question? If we in there searching your house or whatever we're doing in there, don't you think we have the right to do that? No. See, you have no warrant, no search warrant or One more time. Yeah. That's That's how communism, where I came from, works. So Yeah, well, guess what? This is not a communist country. Right. Yeah. It's not. As much as you >> What's his name? Roman? Yeah. Roman, are you going to let us talk to you, man? You let You let this officer read it to you or not, man? Cuz I mean >> This is my third time. >> We cannot I going to I going to be honest with you guys. >> Listen, let me talk. I'm talking now. You've been talking, it's my turn. Listen, it's my turn to talk. You've been talking. Listen, either you let this officer read this to you. You understand or you don't understand. It's simple. Yes or no? If you understand it, we can talk to you. Until then, we cannot talk to you. That's what he's trying to tell you. Do you understand that? You know, I support you guys. >> Okay, we're We're done. And uh Shut the door. >> No. No, no, you're not You're not listening. >> civilian. Hey, man. Hey, wait. Listen. Wait. You're going to get a resisting charge. You really are going to >> No. No, I going to I going to work with you. No, it's it's not about work Listen, all right. Listen. >> I going to work with you. >> Stop talking. Stop talking. All right, listen. You have the right to remain silent, all right? Do you understand that? Do you You understand Okay, listen, listen. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand that? What What do you think is best for me to do? >> Listen, it's a yes or no. Anything you Anything you say can You want to Okay, perfect. Uh you have the right to talk to your lawyer or have him Okay. >> You have the You have the right to talk to your lawyer, have him or her present with you while you are being questioned. Do you understand that? Say again? You have the right to talk to your lawyer and have him or her All right, hey. We're good. All right. Yes. Yes. Appreciate it. I heard 249 coming out. 22 that way. >> yep, yep. 22 the 22 the Miranda. They can They are going to do their zone. Okay. Still no luck getting through the Miranda warning. However, between the victims, the witness, and the evidence at the scene, they have a basic version of what unfolded that night. As the seriousness of the situation clear, the major crimes unit is notified. Meanwhile, a detective arrives and an officer begins walking her through everything gathered so far. So, she came here. She lives in Orlando. She came to visit her boyfriend. She came here and started walking up to the door. She had the wrong address. Suspect grabs her by the arms and starts shaking her or maybe she didn't hear because there's her bracelet. Okay. And he batters her here. She don't even know who the [ __ ] he is. It's the wrong address. She goes to her boyfriend's house. They both come back here. Boyfriend was going to apologize to him. Those are all casings. He starts shooting at him. Okay. There's another casing where that car is. Well, we don't know if he chased him down the street firing. Jurgens found a witness, I think, here with the red car that he said that they heard 30. That door Yeah. They only heard 10 to 12. We found somewhere between 10 to 12. Okay. So, that makes sense. Right. But, how that casing got down there, no one knows. The detective wastes no time. She approaches Rowicki and takes her shot at getting through the Miranda warning. Have you Mirandized him yet? Yes, I read him. Um I'm going to talk to him if you could just or what about a CH on top of it? No, nothing. Um I'm going to talk to him or try and then if you could just run him um have tell you run him for uh any felony convictions. Copy that. And that would be free. Awesome. I saw reading him his race for what it Okay. I don't see anything dirty. He's just a white male. Roman I'm okay. I copy, Vicky. Hi, Roman. Can you hear Yeah, I'm okay. Um I'm going to talk to you Take a breath. I want to talk to you about what happened tonight, okay? I roll over and ask. Okay. Okay. You called 911? Okay. I need Okay. I'll read you your rights and then I'd like to know everything that happened. Okay? You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to You understand the rights? Yes. Okay. After confirming that he understands his Miranda rights, Ruwiki begins walking detectives through his version of events, starting from the moment TP arrived at his home, parked on the street, and stepped out of her car. Yeah. And she basically get out. I want to show you. She get out. And she walk right as well. Next to next to Yeah, whatever. Going up. Like half half the way. I was past my back. Okay. So, uh I said, "Where are you going? Who are you? What What are you doing?" Right? Yeah, I was keep watching what she was saying something to the fire station. But, uh Yeah, so, uh Yeah, I was so pissed because I I have sign in front of my door. In front of the door. No No soliciting, whatever it's called. Yeah. No And they tried to sell you something? I don't want this [ __ ] coming to my door, okay? >> Right. But, she wasn't that tall. She was, uh Yeah, I said You could tell she was selling something. >> 17 17 17 and 44124. I believe that she was, uh I believe that she was on the Okay. Okay. Yeah. It was So I was So what? I basically run after I Yeah. I basically called the where she came from. I basically run after this to get my gun, okay? So uh Yeah. I basically was scared. Okay. And I was trying to protect my family. That's all. Okay. Yeah. And I shoot because I was basically I saw That's That's all. Okay. After giving his statement, Ruwiki was transported from the scene where he was formally arrested and later processed through the Brevard County system. The following day, detectives continued their investigation. They reviewed home security footage that they say appeared to show TP approaching the property in a non-threatening manner. They also analyzed Ruwiki's 911 call where they say he acknowledged that TP had simply gone to the wrong house. And as they canvassed the neighborhood speaking with residents, the true extent of how reckless those actions were became even clearer. Here are one that got hit with the Yeah, the red truck right there. Um it hasn't moved. It we had it I think we haven't driven it for like 3 or 4 days. >> Okay. And I was waxing it yesterday and then today I came out to start waxing it again. And then I went around the truck cuz I was wiping up some stuff in the rain last night. >> Mhm. And I noticed it. Okay. So, I don't know if you guys heard if there was a report of any shots between yesterday when the rain came and this morning. Yeah. It looks like I was looking at it. I haven't opened up the truck or anything. Um it looks like it's a tumbling bullet. Okay. wedge shaped Um Looks like about a .45. Mhm. wedge shaped And then it's bent down this way. So, it's like it it was arcing. Mhm. I haven't opened it up. Do you want me to open it? Um or hold on. >> what she wants to do. We had a We did have an incident last night. >> Oh, did you? Happened down there. Um Down? Further down the street. Was it on this this street in this this neighborhood? It just Yeah, it was Okay. We haven't touched anything yet. Okay. I noticed when they were pulling out with my car to go shopping and I noticed her window was shattered. Yeah. There's clearly like a bullet hole in her door. So, it either happened last night or this It It was last night. We had a incident way down there last night. So. Do you know who it was? I do, but we can't Are you Are you getting them? They're already in custody. Okay. Good. When you step back and look at the totality of the evidence, one thing becomes hard to ignore. This wasn't just some misunderstanding that got out of hand. Investigators say this was a series of decisions that put an entire neighborhood at risk. 17 rounds fired in a residential area at night with homes, families, and vehicles all around. Some residents were forced to take cover, cars were struck by gunfire, and two people, one of whom simply went to the wrong address, were lucky to walk away alive. And in the middle of all of it, his own children were present. Whether that qualifies as self-defense is something the courts will ultimately decide. But, based on what investigators say they found, prosecutors argue this was reckless conduct at a level the law takes very seriously. Roman Rewicki was initially charged with two counts of attempted first-degree felony murder, false imprisonment, criminal mischief over $1,000, discharging a firearm on residential property, and battery. But, as the investigation continued and prosecutors took a closer look at the evidence, those charges were upgraded to two counts of first-degree attempted premeditated murder. If convicted, Rewicki could face up to life in prison. And because a firearm was used, Florida law carries a minimum mandatory sentence of 20 years. Rewicki also picked up charges related to the children. Two counts of child neglect without great bodily harm, and two counts of contributing to the delinquency or dependency of a minor. Those charges were ultimately disposed of by the prosecutor, but the fact that they were filed at all speaks to just how chaotic and dangerous that scene was. Rewicki posted a $160,000 bond and was released with conditions prohibiting any contact with the victims and barring him from possessing firearms. His case is currently working its way through the Broward County court with proceedings ongoing into 2026. As always, he's presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But, the evidence collected that night on Clover Street tells a story that prosecutors argue will be difficult to challenge in court. What are your thoughts on this case? The potential penalties here are serious. If convicted, Rewicki could be looking at decades in prison, possibly even life. Based on what's been presented so far, what do you think would be an appropriate sentence? As usual, feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section.
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