{"id":7196,"date":"2020-04-23T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2020-04-23T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:35:04","slug":"lakeland-man-arrested-for-manslaughter-after-fatally-shooting-his-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/04\/23\/lakeland-man-arrested-for-manslaughter-after-fatally-shooting-his-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland man arrested for manslaughter after fatally shooting his brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Detectives from the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a shooting incident in the Eaton Park area of Lakeland near Maine Avenue and Reynolds Road, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Deputies were initially dispatched to an accidental shooting at around 8:12 pm, but the\u00a021-year-old victim died<\/strong>\u00a0less than an hour later at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The investigation determined that\u00a0the man was shot once in the chest by his half-brother, 19-year-old Tyler Nichols<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two other family members were in the house at the time, one of whom witnessed the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to evidence and information collected, Nichols and his brother were horse-playing after eating dinner, and were preparing to go to the store together to purchase blunt cigar wrappers that they could use to smoke marijuana together. Nichols jokingly picked-up a handgun, which he believed was unloaded, pointed it at his brother, and pulled the trigger
Family members stated that the brothers were very close and had not been arguing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is a horrible, terrible tragedy. Even if you think that the gun is unloaded, never point one at another person in jest. Tragic consequences can result.”\u00a0<\/em>Grady Judd, Sheriff.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detectives determined that Nichols acted negligently and carelessly with the gun, and was\u00a0charged with Manslaughter (F2)<\/strong>\u00a0for his brother\u2019s death.
Additionally, Nichols was on pre-trial release for shooting into a house in October of 2019. The conditions of his release prohibited him from possessing any firearms. He was also found to be in possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nichols was arrested and taken to the Polk County Jail.\u00a0In addition to the manslaughter charge, he was also charged with Violation of Pre-Trial Release (M1), Possession of Marijuana (M1), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (M1).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler Nichols\u2019 prior criminal history consists of seven felonies and six misdemeanors, including Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Shooting into a Building, Discharging a Firearm from a Vehicle, Burglary, Grand Theft, Tampering with Evidence, Battery (4), and Criminal Mischief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detectives from the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a shooting incident in the Eaton Park area of Lakeland near Maine Avenue and Reynolds Road, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}