BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – It was a moment that seemed frozen, stuck in time, and one that Jaquan Kimbrough-Rucker just can’t shake.
He and his friends Angelo “A.J.” Crooms, 16, and Sincere Pierce, 18, were in a gray sedan, bumping melodic trap music by Taleban Dooda on a warm November morning, News 6 partner Florida Today reports. “We was going to hang out and smoke.
It was the day before my birthday,” Kimbrough-Rucker said. [TRENDING: Daytona Beach restaurants suffering from staff shortage | Slain Capitol officer identified | FEMA sites switch to J&J vaccine] But in those few seconds, the three stared in shock past the windshield, the 20-year-old recalled, as a Brevard County sheriff’s deputy stepped forward, taking aim with his gun drawn,