Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man Monday after he walked into his estranged wife’s Alachua house and tried to shoot her boyfriend, deputies said.
Officers arrested 27-year-old Derrick Day on charges of attempted homicide, battery, robbery and assault, according to an arrest report. At about 11:30 p.m., Day, from Bell, Florida, came home to visit his 27-year-old estranged wife, according to the report.
He pushed his way into the home while holding a black semi-automatic handgun, according to the report. Day began hitting and kicking his estranged wife.
He then pushed her into the kitchen and began saying “Where is he?,” referring to her new 36-year-old boyfriend.
Day then began to shoot toward the back of the house, saying, “I’m going to f**king kill him,” according to the report.
Several bullets hit the wall next to where the boyfriend was hiding.
Day then got into his gray GMC truck and left the area, according to the report. High Springs Police Department later spotted the truck and detained Day.
Day had a black, semi-automatic, .45-caliber handgun on the passenger side floorboard of the truck, according to the report.
Law enforcement later collected shell casings and bullet fragments from the house.
Officers detained Day near the 25000 block of Northwest 182nd Avenue in High Springs.
Deputies booked Day into the Alachua County Jail at about 3 a.m. Monday, where he remained as of press time in lieu of a $475,000 bond.
[A version of this story ran on page 5 on 5/15/2014 under the headline "Police arrest fled estranged husband who threatened wife"]
