17-year-old charged as adult in July 18 shooting
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kemari Leon Thomas, 17, has been charged as an adult in the July 18 shooting in the 2600 block of East University Avenue; the shooting victim was reportedly dropped off in the Verdant Cove complex.
Thomas allegedly fired several shots at a vehicle with several juvenile occupants as it drove through the area of 2600 E. University Avenue; a bullet struck a juvenile victim who was dropped off at Verdant Cove, where Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded and arranged for the victim to be transported to a hospital.
Thomas has been charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and shooting into a vehicle. He has a juvenile criminal history of resisting arrest without violence, petit theft, and burglary to an unoccupied structure.
Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $200,000 with a requirement for a GPS device upon release.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Finally, a somewhat reasonable bail. Tired of seeing all these criminals getting let out on $1,000.
That’s because Judge Green wasn’t the judge who set bail.
About time judge
If he makes bail GPS is bull crap because there have been several juveniles with GPS devices on while they stole vehicles and shot at each other. Get them off the streets for good. Sick of everyone else suffering bc of the trash.
Much better on bond. Of course this guy must have a lengthy past to be charged as an adult.
Actually no past at All…and what they left out the individuals that where shot stole a car and came to his residence
I USE 2 READ COMMENTS ON HERE AND SOMEWHAT AGREE BUT WHEN IT’S SOMEONE U KNO AND THE STORY IS BEING TWISTED IT’S AMAZING….NO HE’S NOT A CRIMINAL OR A GANG BANGER HIS PRIVIOUS HISTORY IS FROM A EARLY CHILDHOOD MISTAKE AS WE ALL MADE….ALL SITUATIONS R NOT THE SAME AND SOME OF U SHOULD B MORE OPEN MINDED TO IT MORE SIDES TO STORIES THAN ONE….I DIDN’T THINK I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT DO TO EVERYONE TRYING TO SOUND LIKE THEY HAVE THE MOST INTELLIGENCE IN THE CITY AND OF THIS CITY
Did he not fire shots at someone/thing? Sounds like he is a criminal. I’m open to hearing the “true” story.
@ Familiar Face- oh no he’s not a criminal, he only shot at a few people & has a history of burglary & stealing. But he’s “not a criminal”… 🤦
Let’s see he made mistakes as child okay. A person learns from their mistakes. Carrying a gun around and shooting at folks (allegedly) does not seem like a nice innocent child anymore. The parents of any minor arrested should also be charged with Child Neglect. Maybe then they will begin to accept responsibility for their children they procreated.
My mistake growing up was picking on my siblings while riding in the car. Parents took care of that when we got home.
It wasn’t shooting at someone.
Your mistake was not learning where the “lock caps” button is or how to use correct punctuation. You’re wrong about one thing though; he is a criminal now.
None of the what you said made any sense, there is no reason to shoot first into a vehicle passing by, stop your nonsense.
I love how family members like yourself get on here and try to say that the situation is all twisted they don’t know the whole story and yada yada yada. Evidently he doesn’t know right from wrong and nobody has taught him in his life that there are laws and rules that everyone has to abide by. The consequences of not following the laws are jails and penitentiaries. He’s right where he belongs since he feels that he’s above law enforcement.
WOW….. REALLY GVILLE ARE U ALL OBLIVIOUS TO THE STATE OF THIS CITY…. SOME PPL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO PROTECT THEIR HM….LIKE I SAID TO KNO THE STORY IS DIFFERENT….IF YOU ARE THREATENED AT YOUR HM AT YOUR DOOR IT’S A DIFFERENCE…HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD NOT PROTECT YOUR HM FROM REAL ACTUAL CRIMINALS…. AGAIN NO ONE GIVES PRAISE FOR CHANGE…HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO REFORM AND CHANGE THESE KIDS IF YOU BANISHED THEM AT THE FIRST SIGHT OF TROUBLE….IN SOME OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS IN GVILLE WHICH MOST OF THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS CM FROM PPL WHO DON’T LIVE IN THEM OR SIMPLY DRIVE PASS, AND MOST HAVE NEVER EVEN BEEN ON THE SE SIDE OF TOWN TO SEE WHAT IT HAS TURN INTO…..YES MY MOTHER AND FATHER RAISED ME VERY WELL BUT I ALSO REALIZE IT’S A NEW DAY AND AGE WHAT USE 2 WORK NO LONGER DOES….. INSTEAD OF CALLING THEM CRIMINALS AND JUST CANCEL THEM OUT LETS FIGURE OUT A WAY TO HELP THEM THRIVE… FIGURE OUT WHERE THE ANGER STEMS FROM…WE CAN’T REALLY BLAME THEM GAMES NO MORES CAUSE THEY NOT EVEN PLAYING THEM…. THEY ARE THE GAME IN REAL LIFE… IT’S NOT SAFE OUT HERE AND I DON’T CARE WHO YOU ARE YOU WOULD HAVE DEFENDED YOUR HOME….
Another wasted life the rest of us will be paying for from now on.
Paying for : you probably don’t pay taxes if you do they go straight to GOP party bus maga