A Miami Gardens man wasn’t ready to let go of his black Ford F-150 as it was repossessed from his home on Monday. He was so enraged he chased down the tow-truck driver, shot at him and hunted him down again, police say.<\/p>\n
Lawrence Hilbert Morant, 39, is facing charges of armed criminal mischief, aggravated assault with a firearm and shooting into vehicles. As of Thursday, he had bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n
Around 6 p.m. Monday, the tow-truck driver hooked up Morant’s pick-up truck in his driveway, an arrest report read. As the driver was leaving, Morant ran outside and tried to stop him but failed.<\/p>\n
Moments later, Morant “aggressively pursued,” running after the tow truck, yelling curse words and threatening the driver, Miami Gardens police said.<\/p>\n
The driver thought he was a safe distance away from Morant so he got out of his truck to secure the F-150 again. However, Morant tracked him down and “aggressively confronted him.”<\/p>\n
Wanting no part of Morant’s anger, the driver drove off again but Morant pulled out a handgun and shot at the tow truck \u2014 hitting it several times, the report read.<\/p>\n
The driver was uninjured and drove to a nearby Exxon gas station to call police. Hot on his trail, Morant found him there.<\/p>\n
The gas station was about five miles from Morant’s home, it’s unclear if he ran all the way there.<\/p>\n
Officers swarmed the gas station before Morant could do anything else to the driver or his tow truck.<\/p>\n
Authorities wrote that Morant admitted to them that he “intentionally fired his handgun at the tow truck while the [driver] was inside.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami Gardens man wasn’t ready to let go of his black Ford F-150 as it was repossessed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,138967,47529],"class_list":["post-337632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lawrence-hilbert-morant","tag-tow-truck-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}