ROY MIDDLETON

WARRINGTON, FL – Roy Middleton, a 60-year-old African-American man in Western Florida, is recovering from wounds, after police shot him in front of his home last Saturday.

Middleton was reportedly looking for a cigarette inside his mother’s parked car — which sat in his driveway — when county officers opened fired on him even though he reportedly did not provoke them.

The shooting occurred in the town of Warrington, a small predominantly White town just six miles from Pensacola and the Alabama state line, The shooting reportedly happened early Saturday morning, after Escambia County sheriff deputies were responding to a 911 call of a neighbor who saw Middleton looking around in the car.