A Hialeah, Florida man took matters into his own hands to remove AT&T workers from his property on Wednesday.
Jorge Jove, a 64-year-old retired Miami-Dade firefighter, shot the tires of two AT&T trucks, as seen in video captured of the incident and posted on Twitter.
Hialeah Police Sgt. Carl Zogby told WSVN that Jove was “upset that the trucks were parked in front of his house” and that he “asked them to move.
The workers told Jove they’d move in a few minutes, Zogby told WSVN, but that didn’t satisfy the homeowner.
“They said, ‘We’ll move in a few minutes. We’re just working on the poles. We’re supposed to be here,'” Zogby said. “He went back into his house, came out a few moments later with a gun and started firing at both AT&T trucks that were on the scene.”
In the video capturing Jove shooting at the tires of both trucks, a voice can be heard describing the incident to police, WSVN reported.
“There’s a guy shooting out my tires. There’s a guy shooting out my tires,” the voice says. WSVN reported an employee for the company was in the air working on one of the poles while Jove was shooting.
No injuries were reported.
Jove was taken into custody and questioned.
Zogby told the outlet Jove “flattened their tires, he shot into the bodies of the trucks, he shot at one of the radiators of the trucks. We’re trying to determine now whether he was actually intentionally trying to shoot the workers or just shoot the vehicles.”
Jove fired a total of 18 bullets, Zogby said.
“He seemed to be a quiet man, and something made him snap today,” he said.
AT&T released a statement obtained by WSVN that read, “We’re grateful nobody was hurt, and we’re working with law enforcement in their investigation. Because there’s an active investigation, I need to refer you to them for any questions.”
Haa, I felt like that earlier today about Comcast. We've been dealing with bad phone service (VOIP) and communication of data between the two stores for the past 2 weeks. Comcast sucks. They finally got someone out there and replaced THEIR router. I wonder what that will cost me? It's their lines and router, but I have to pay. I think he fixed it, but now we have a new set of problems with error messages and such. We'll see tomorrow.
I bet that jackass would think differently if his phones didn't work. I'd be out there with some cold drinks for the guys. I'm curious about what happened after the police arrived.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan
Had a case like that up here. Power company contracted an arborist to trim back trees from power line right away. They start trimming trees on a guys property and he goes Jorge on them and starts shooting.
Swat team called and at the end of it the guy was dead. I think he offed himself but don't recall the details
Had a case like that up here. Power company contracted an arborist to trim back trees from power line right away. They start trimming trees on a guys property and he goes Jorge on them and starts shooting.
Swat team called and at the end of it the guy was dead. I think he offed himself but don't recall the details
He was probably a Greeny Liberal. They get all upset when people cut down trees.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan
