Shooting on Rita street

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How come there are no details given about this shooting.....
What happened leading up to the Mr. Sasser being shot..
Just wondering

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How come there are no details given about this shooting.....
What happened leading up to the Mr. Sasser being shot..
Just wondering

Can you say "Open HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION" ?

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Can you say "Open HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION" ?

Still>>>>?????????

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Still>>>>?????????

Unlike TV, these take time. After an arrest, you MAY get more......

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Posted Sep 28, 2016 at 6:12 PM
Updated at 7:48 AM

SARASOTA COUNTY — Two weeks before a 31-year-old Sarasota man was shot, allegedly while trying to kick in his next-door neighbor’s door in the early morning hours of Sept. 13, a woman at the Rita Street home reported a break-in attempt.

A Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office report about the Aug. 31 incident, which occurred at 3:45 p.m., said the 31-year-old woman reported someone trying to get into the house at 1867 Rita St., but that she did not see anyone.


Deputies arrived within 15 minutes and spoke with neighbors who also said they did not see anything suspicious in the quiet Vamo neighborhood.

The Sheriff’s Office took no further action.

Flash forward and Robert Setti, 29, who also lives at 1867 Rita St., called 911 at 2:20 a.m. Sept. 13 to report a man who was kicking in his front door. Before deputies arrived, Setti told the dispatcher he armed himself and shot the alleged intruder.

Deputies arrived within 10 minutes, and found a car with Georgia tags in the driveway and Setti’s front door, partially obscured by a bush on the right, ajar.

The door was broken at the hinges and a man’s body, later identified as his neighbor, James Sasser, 31, of Sarasota, was lying in the doorway.

No charges have been filed in the case, which remains under investigation. According to Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, a person may use deadly force in self-defense if he or she reasonably believes that force is necessary to prevent death or bodily harm.

According to the Sheriff’s Office report:

The body of Sasser (who Setti said in an email to the Herald-Tribune, moved in to 1865 Rita St. about three days earlier) was surrounded by a pool of blood and appeared to have a gunshot wound.

Setti was standing a few feet behind him in the doorway on the phone.

A shotgun with shotgun shells lay on the ground between Setti and Sasser’s body. A black pistol also was a few feet behind Setti, toward the back of the house.

Setti was ordered to step away from the weapons, along with two women who were in the home, and exit out the front door past Sasser’s body.

No one else was found inside the home.

A paramedic examined Sasser and pronounced him dead at 2:39 a.m. A deputy was placed at the entrance of the house to maintain a crime scene contamination log until authorities could investigate the incident.

While authorities were at the scene, Sasser's roommate, William Brewers, arrived and ran toward one of the patrol cars. He was detained by several deputies.

Sasser’s body lay in the doorway for more than 10 hours after the shooting, while deputies attempted to get search warrants for properties at 1865 and 1867 Rita St.

Setti’s home is one of three owned by his parents on Rita Street, and is one of five held by the Setti Financial Group in Sarasota County.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20...der-called-911

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Posted Sep 28, 2016 at 6:12 PM
Updated at 7:48 AM

SARASOTA COUNTY — Two weeks before a 31-year-old Sarasota man was shot, allegedly while trying to kick in his next-door neighbor’s door in the early morning hours of Sept. 13, a woman at the Rita Street home reported a break-in attempt.

A Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office report about the Aug. 31 incident, which occurred at 3:45 p.m., said the 31-year-old woman reported someone trying to get into the house at 1867 Rita St., but that she did not see anyone.


Deputies arrived within 15 minutes and spoke with neighbors who also said they did not see anything suspicious in the quiet Vamo neighborhood.

The Sheriff’s Office took no further action.

Flash forward and Robert Setti, 29, who also lives at 1867 Rita St., called 911 at 2:20 a.m. Sept. 13 to report a man who was kicking in his front door. Before deputies arrived, Setti told the dispatcher he armed himself and shot the alleged intruder.

Deputies arrived within 10 minutes, and found a car with Georgia tags in the driveway and Setti’s front door, partially obscured by a bush on the right, ajar.

The door was broken at the hinges and a man’s body, later identified as his neighbor, James Sasser, 31, of Sarasota, was lying in the doorway.

No charges have been filed in the case, which remains under investigation. According to Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, a person may use deadly force in self-defense if he or she reasonably believes that force is necessary to prevent death or bodily harm.

According to the Sheriff’s Office report:

The body of Sasser (who Setti said in an email to the Herald-Tribune, moved in to 1865 Rita St. about three days earlier) was surrounded by a pool of blood and appeared to have a gunshot wound.

Setti was standing a few feet behind him in the doorway on the phone.

A shotgun with shotgun shells lay on the ground between Setti and Sasser’s body. A black pistol also was a few feet behind Setti, toward the back of the house.

Setti was ordered to step away from the weapons, along with two women who were in the home, and exit out the front door past Sasser’s body.

No one else was found inside the home.

A paramedic examined Sasser and pronounced him dead at 2:39 a.m. A deputy was placed at the entrance of the house to maintain a crime scene contamination log until authorities could investigate the incident.

While authorities were at the scene, Sasser's roommate, William Brewers, arrived and ran toward one of the patrol cars. He was detained by several deputies.

Sasser’s body lay in the doorway for more than 10 hours after the shooting, while deputies attempted to get search warrants for properties at 1865 and 1867 Rita St.

Setti’s home is one of three owned by his parents on Rita Street, and is one of five held by the Setti Financial Group in Sarasota County.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20...der-called-911

Why weren't they granted the search warrants.???????
Leave the guy lying there dead 10 hours....
Just a concerned citizen wondering....
Something doesn't add up....

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Why weren't they granted the search warrants.???????
Leave the guy lying there dead 10 hours....
Just a concerned citizen wondering....
Something doesn't add up....

First off, you're not "just a concerned citizen." You know it and everybody else knows it. LOL whatever. Anyway...

There are very few justifiable homicides in Sarasota County. It’s rare. Can anyone else ever remember working a justifiable homicide case? Nope!!!

The last “stand your ground” case that the agency worked was a royal cluster because in a "rush to judgement," the victim was falsely arrested by the agency. Everybody remembers that -- and nobody wanted to make the same mistake at Rita Street.

In the Rita Street case, the intruder was shot dead and the homeowner falls under the “stand your ground” statute:

• The victim committed no detectable crime (intuitive suspicions don't legally count).
• The victim says the dead guy never got inside the house (except at the doorway), so you can only search inside the house "a lunging distance from the body." You can do a cursory search of the whole house for safety, but that limits you to only searching for other people who might be present and who might be a danger. You cannot legally search the rest of the house for drugs or anything else unless you have probable cause (PC).
• You are not allowed to search the rest of the victim’s house unless you have probable cause that the homeowner committed a crime.
• A search warrant is a “probable cause affidavit” that is presented to a judge as a reason for your request to search. What’s your PC for search? The judge knows the law, so what can you write that will get him to quickly sign-off on the search warrant? The judge will not want to sign-off on a warrant that doesn't meet the legal criteria. Having a dead body on your hands is not PC for search, especially under the "stand your ground" law.

So the body laid there for 10 hours, while the supervisor directed a detective to try and get a search warrant. These kinds of cases are rare here, which may help to explain why it was a "fear cluster" (think back to the first false arrest in the newspaper).

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so why wasn't the shooter taken into custody the night of the shooting..????

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so why wasn't the shooter taken into custody the night of the shooting..????

Because INVESTIGATIONS take time.

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so why wasn't the shooter taken into custody the night of the shooting..????

Prosecutors have decided that Setti was acting in self-defense when he shot 31-year-old James Sasser on Sept. 13 and that he will not be charged with a crime related to the shooting.

Earlier this week, Assistant State Attorney Karen Fraivillig said: “Not just forensic evidence but evidence the door had been splintered and opened. In addition to that, there was a motion-sensor camera mounted near where the incident took place. It caught the action of Setti and corroborated the testimony of him and the two female witnesses.”

Setti shot Sasser on Sept. 13 at a home at 1867 Rita St., according to Sarasota County Sheriff's Office investigative reports.


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