Girl, 11, Says Dad Was Shot, Killed Over $35:
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CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- Three days after her father was shot and killed, an 11-year-old recounted a haunting story about what she saw when a man she thought was a family friend walked through the door with a rifle.
Deputies were called out to a home on Old Dine Field Road in Middleburg Friday night. That's when they said 32-year-old Jonathan Williams pulled out a rifle after Buddy Pickett showed up at his door along with his two kids and a teenage neighbor asking for $35 dollars.
Pickett's daughter, 11-year-old Sierra, said they had gone to Williams' home to get some money to buy groceries, but they never expected the man to come outside carrying a rifle.
"Buddy just wanted John to give him $35 he owed him so he could take care of his family," said Pickett's mother, Patricia Pickett.
She said her son sent his daughter and a friend to collect the money to avoid any confrontation, and that Pickett only went to the house when Williams began cursing at the children.
Sierra told Channel 4 that after a verbal exchange, Williams went inside his home.
"We waited because we thought he was going to give us the money," she said.
Instead, police said when Williams opened the door again he opened fire and killed Pickett.
In front of his kids no less. That's the problem with towns like Middleburg, and yes I've been there. You have too much white trash mixed in with decent country folk.
