Robin Quintin Parks, who was laid off from the U.S. Postal Service last December, went on a bizarre alcohol-induced shooting rampage from his car early Sunday morning.
Luckily, nobody was killed.
Parks fired randomly at three vehicles on U.S. Highway 92.
One of Park's bullets hit the buttocks of a recent Auburndale High School grad, Zachery Tucker, who was riding as a passenger with his family. The family was returning home after having been out at a restaurant celebrating their son's graduation when the shooting began.
Another victim, a woman at the wheel of the second car, was shot in the her left cheek. The bullet emerged through her right cheek. She was rushed to Lakeland Regional, where she underwent surgery for serious injuries.
Parks shot a round into the right front door of a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu being driven by Robert Handy, 20, of Winter Haven. Handy rolled down the passenger-side window to see where the shooting was coming from, and heard Parks shout a racial slur at him. Parks then repeatedly sideswiped and rammed Handy's car until both vehicles could not drive.
Deputies said his blood-alcohol level was 0.226 percent, nearly three times the level at which one is deemed drunk in Florida.
"Our goal is to see that he doesn't breathe another breath of air outside of jail," said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
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