Gainesville woman arrested for pointing rifle at neighbors and children

Staff report

Updated on March 31 with pre-trial detention information.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jomekia Lakresha Archer, 46, was arrested yesterday for allegedly pointing a rifle at a group of neighbors that included children.

At about 10:29 p.m. on March 14, Gainesville Police Department officers responded to a home in Lincoln Estates, where the victims said Archer was angry because somebody had parked a car in front of her home. The victims said Archer became belligerent and started yelling and cursing at them and telling them to move their cars.

The victims said Archer kept saying, “I got some for y’all,” and at one point, she went inside her home and came out with a rifle, which she allegedly held at her hip while pointing it at the victims, including several children. The victims said they were in fear for their lives and started getting the children indoors; one victim called 911.

Archer went back into her house briefly but then allegedly came out, holding the rifle, and pointed it at the victims again. When one victim said she was calling law enforcement, Archer reportedly said, “Call who you wanna call, I don’t give a [expletive].” Archer reportedly went back inside her house and then came out without the rifle.

Post Miranda, Archer reportedly said she had never cursed at the victims and the victims started it by yelling and cursing at her. She denied saying, “I got some for y’all” but reportedly admitted going inside her house to get a “BB gun.” She said she never pointed the “BB gun” at the victims but held it by her hip, pointing at the ground.

Archer was also booked on a 2024 warrant for hosting a dogfight at a relative’s house. At least three people were arrested in 2024 on charges connected to the same incident, and Keith Gerard Miles is serving an 18-month prison sentence connected to the same incident.

Archer has been charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. She has five felony convictions (non-violent) and six misdemeanor convictions (non-violent) and has an active warrant out of Putnam County for driving under the influence. Judge Meshon Rawls ordered her held without bail on the aggravated assault charges, pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s Office to hold her without bail until trial. On March 26, Judge David Kreider granted the motion and ordered her held without bail until trial.

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