Alachua, FL – February 15, 2023 – It was just after 9am and the recovery agent had the car lifted and ready to roll when he came outside. Disputing the validity of the repossession, the man claimed he had papers to show the agent the loan was current and went inside to get them. Impatient and having already lifted the vehicle, the agent made his escape with the car in tow. Instead of papers, the man stepped out of the house and opened fire.
On Tuesday morning, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a call from an employee or owner of a local repossession agency, that shots had been fired at one of their employees during an attempt to repossess a car.
According to reports, the unnamed agent arrived at the house and was in the process of lifting a vehicle when the borrower’s father, 73-year-old Winzoir Von Durr emerged from the house. The agent and Mr. Durr engaged in conversation in which Mr. Durr disputed the delinquency causing the repossession.
Insisting to go back into the house and provide paperwork to show the agent proof, he went inside and left the agent outside. Skeptical and perhaps a little impatient, the agent went back to his truck and began to leave with the car in tow when Mr. Durr returned, gun in hand.
The agent then reported to have heard a loud “pop” and looked back to see Durr on the front porch with the gun aimed at him. He then says that he heard five more shots. It was then that he told police that he then sped away, in fear for his life.
When police arrived, they questioned Durr and seized a 9mm pistol from his office. Durr, a man with no prior criminal record, confessed to officers that he knew that his daughter was behind in car payments and that he took his gun from his office when he realized the recovery agent was leaving with her car.
Durr allegedly admitted to firing a “warning shot,” before firing three more rounds at the tires to prevent the repossessor from leaving. Four 9mm shell casings were recovered from the yard of the residence.
Durr was arrested and reportedly charged with attempted homicide. Despite the alleged charges, his bail was set at $15,000.
Source: MyCBS4
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