Steidley, a contractor, had been drinking since the previous night, Judd said. An argument between him and his live-in girlfriend, Rebecca Lawson, 46, escalated when he threw some of her belongings into a pool and her pocketbook on the roof.
Lawson met deputies at a nearby church about 2 p.m. before they went to the home. She told them there were guns inside, but neglected to add that Steidley had aimed one at her daughter, Melanie Lawson, 23, earlier, Judd said.
Melanie Lawson lives at another address in Winter Haven.
A neighbor on the street also did not report seeing Steidley with a gun in his waistband Saturday, Judd said.
If the deputies had known Steidley had been handling a gun, they likely would have approached his house differently.
What do you think? How could they have handled it differently? Are they trying to spread the blame around by intimating that the daughter failed to disclose all she knew and that's why they couldn't help but kill the guy?
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