Deputies Are "Shooting My Husband" after she called for help

911 Caller: Deputies Are "Shooting My Husband"

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A Volusia County deputy is now under investigation for two separate shootings. Sergeant Vidal Mejias shot Joshua James Gerard on Sunday night at a home on South Blue Lake Avenue in DeLand (see map) after, investigators said, Gerard wouldn't put down a shotgun when they responded to a domestic

It’s the second time in a month the deputy opened fire on a suspect.

“Oh God,” a 911 caller told a dispatcher Sunday night (listen to unedited, explicit call).

“What's the matter ma'am,” the dispatcher asked.

“They shot him. They're shooting him. They're shooting my husband,” she said.

The victim posted a ‘no trespassing’ sign on a lawn chair and warned visitors not to knock on the front door. Her home on Blue Lake Avenue was the scene of the second deputy-involved shooting in Volusia County in less than a month.

The woman told investigators she took her kids to the beach Sunday and, when they returned around 9:30pm Sunday, her husband, 30-year-old Joshua Gerard, had trashed their home.

“He busted out the window. He busted out the oven,” the caller told 911.

“That's tonight?”

“Yeah, there is glass all over my floor. I can't even take the kids inside,” she said.

The woman told investigators she kept her 8- and 2-year-old children in the car outside while she tried to calm him down, but he was drunk. She said he poured gasoline over their kayak and tried to set it on fire, waving a cigarette at her. She finally took her children and drove to the neighbor’s home next door where she called 911.

“He's probably going to try to kill himself,” she told the 911 dispatcher.

“Why?”

“He doesn't want to go to jail. He's a veteran. He's (explicative) in the head,” she said.
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