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Man Who Impregnated 11-Year-Old Is Killed by Deputies

He was shot at a Treasure Island motel. He also was a suspect in a knifepoint robbery in Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg.

 

Gregory Johns, wanted for sexually assaulting and impregnating an 11-year-old girl, was killed by Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputies Saturday morning at the Trails End Motel in Treasure Island, according to an article from cfnews13.com

Johns was living with the girl and her mother when they found out the child was pregnant. Johns left from Morton Plant Meese Countryside Hospital where the girl was diagnosed on August 27th.

Sheriff's Deputies got word that Johns had robbed a couple in Vinoy Park at knife point and went to 78-year-old woman's home and left her tied up for 12 hours on August 29th.

On the 29th, Johns also called up the mother and apologized for what he did and said that police would have to kill him before he returned to jail.

Johns was in and out of jail ten times since 1987. 

Saturday morning, deputies received a tip that Johns was hiding out in a motel somewhere along Gulf Boulevard in Treasure Island.

They found Johns at the Trails End Motel in room 224.

After trying to get him to come out, deputies went into the room and Johns came out of the bathroom with a knife and said he was going to kill the officers.

Deputies Eric Turner and Claudio Dimundo both fired about five rounds and killed Johns. 

Turner and Dimundo will both go on paid administrative leave for the period the investigation.

Related Topics: Sexual Assault, Shooting, and Treasure Island

Phillip

5:07 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012

To Officers Turner & Dimundo, thank you so much for risking your lives so that others can feel safe. My children and grandchildren further thank you as they will not have to pay to feed and care for that SOB for the next 40 years! Again, Thank You So Very Much!!!

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mike walsh

10:29 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

yep. better one dollar spent in bullets than millions of our taxes for keeping that scum alive in jail. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

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Debbie With

4:19 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012

Phillip you coundnt have said it any better!

Brian Cantamessa

8:51 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012

Please tell me that the first nine shots were slow and deliberate, to the stomach and groin area so this scumbag at least suffered before he died and that the tenth one was a headshot or center mass. Excellent work Officers!

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john

9:32 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012

Kudos to the officers for killing this defect of humanity. It's my sincere hope he died slow...

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Donna

7:26 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012

Great job officers now I feel safer out here at the beach. Thank god we don't have to pay to have them live at the jail.

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Joe King

8:59 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012

I wonder why each LEO stopped at 5 rounds each? I'm sure they still had more rounds in their guns.

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Sarah

9:20 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012

11? Just disgusted... if I was the mother the officers would not have needed to intervene...would have broken his neck.

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Lori Byrnes

4:20 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

But why would she let a career criminal be around her 11 year old daughter to begin with-obviously not much common sense.

Diane R

10:05 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012

One less MONSTER to worry about & support. My kids' & grandkids.thank you.

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Jessie James

12:06 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

I Applaud The Deputies for Getting rid of this piece of Sh8t. All Taxpayers should Thank the Deputies For a JOB WELL DONE!!!!. Now We wont have to foot the Bill to Houses this Animal. he calls the Mother to say he's Sorry and he's not going back to Jail, Good for him,now he's going to HELL. The Gates are Wide Open for Ya!!!! D.R.I.P. I hope the little Girl can Recover from this Horrific act. My Family and I will Pray that She will recover from this Nightmare. May God be With Her and Bless Her. Do anyone remember those same words " I'm not going back to Jail,I fell off at this gas station,I've been shot in the Ass". Four People gone that Day.One little Boy,Three Officer's. Get rid of ALL The CAREER CRIMINALS ASAP. 10 PRIOR'S

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lori f

2:03 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

When you going to stop bringing scum bag boyfriends around your 11 year old daughter momma oh right it's already too late

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Crystal

6:26 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

I work at the Trails End Motel, the police did a wonderful job! They executed this very well they were so quiet some of our guests didnt even know anything had happened til morning. But im not sure it happened the way it was reported.? But I believe that this sick monster got what he deserved!!!!

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Sherri Oakley

5:35 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

My sister & I were right below in rm. 24 when this took place. Woke up to what I thought was firecrackers going off . Blew it off & went back to sleep. Very thankful nobody was injured or robbed again !!! Maybe our jails wouldn`t be so full if this could happen more often !!!!!!

E Quinones

7:19 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

Thanks for saving our tax dollars by killing this predator!

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j. h.

7:37 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

Was a great job getting the scum of the streets. But we will still be paying because now the 11 year old is pregnant

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mom4ever

7:40 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

There was a felony warrant arrest out for this guy for the last year and a half. The Sheriff's office stopped serving felony arrest warrants to save money. If he was arrested a year and a half ago, that little girl wouldn't be pregnant and the assaults this past week would never have happened.Thank you police officers for finally finding this scum, but no thanks to the Gualtieri's office for not picking up this felon last year.

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deputy dog

9:35 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

Mom4ever you are misinformed. The Sheriff's Office disolved the warrants division to cut costs; however Deputies that work the streets serve the warrants instead of the dedicated detectives that previously were assigned to warrants only. I cannot explain how this warrant was not served. I guess a question for the Sheriff.

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anne smith

11:55 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

Thank God this piece of abhorrent humanity is dead - thank you God for cops who did a fantastic job, and also that citizens in this great country still have the right to bear arms, i.e. the means with which to protect themselves and their families. Well done officers! The mother should go to jail.

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Lori Byrnes

4:02 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I agree with you that the mother should go to jail. There's no way that she couldn't have known that her "little girl" was being molested by this piece of crap. Now she'll be raising another baby and we'll be paying for it.

Alex

3:18 am on Monday, September 3, 2012

This is horrific and sad all around. Prayers with all families involved. I don't condone any violence because I'm not a hypocrite

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Trig Palin

9:19 am on Monday, September 3, 2012

Perfect example why there should be safe, legal abortions in this country. Conservatives sadly would assert that perhaps she was not "legitimately" abused because otherwise her body "would have shut that whlole thing down" and if they had their way, they would force this child to ruin her life and bring the raper's seed to life... Idiots!

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AI

11:37 am on Monday, September 3, 2012

"Trig", of course you know what you wrote is not true. Todd Akin, the next senator from Missouri, is the one who misspoke about "legitimate rape". He has since been set straight and has apologized. One of the reasons he is going to win the election in Missouri is that he did NOT apologize for saying children conceived by rape should NOT be murdered before they are born. Why should an innocent child be put to a horrible, painful death because of something his father did? That is wrong, and most of America knows it. I am delighted that the child-rapist in this story got what was coming to him. Kudos to the cops! However, the unborn child conceived by such a horrible act should NOT be murdered. The child is innocent. The child can be put up for adoption. The birth mother never even has to see him if she does not want to. By the way, your screen name is sickening and truly revealing. Are you one of those lost souls who believes that darling disabled children like Trig Palin should never be born? If so, shame on you! The Nazis shared that belief. During the early years of WW2, the Nazis rounded up all the disabled children and adults and put them all to death, because they were seen as "useless". Thank God we put the Nazis where they belong: in hell.

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Martin Ross

7:40 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Good heavens, Al -- your post is so scary, I don't even know where to start. Maybe this CHILD will bear the rapist's baby and maybe she won't, but that decision should be left up to her and her mother. Your concern for the unborn is commendable -- however, it would be refreshing if someone (ANYONE) from the far right would show similar concern for those already living.

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Catherine

1:19 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Sorry Al, but I'm fully with Trig on this one. Unless you personally have ever been raped, you have no idea about the horror, the nightmares, the loss of self-esteem, loss of trust, etc... the victim suffers for if not her entire life, at least a good deal of time after the trauma has occurred.

Then, to have to feel the seed of this perpetrator growing inside and changing the body - everyday of the pregnancy a reminder of the violent control that the rapist used upon the woman's, or in this case a child's body that resulted in pregnancy? This makes the now potential mother suicidal and often bitter against that minute-by-minute reminder of the heinous act done upon the child.

No; absolutely no reason the victim should have to endure punishing shame, physical pain, through nine months of pregnancy. The soul of the aborted baby can come back into the body of another potential mother at the right time in the future. But the raped victim should never be forced to carry the baby created by such despicable violence. Never.

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Lori Byrnes

4:05 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

That's why the "politicians" who think that Roe v. Wade should be overturned need to get real. Also, doing away with planned parenthood will create more children born to children because they won't be able to get birth control without parental consent. More unwanted children that we will be supporting.

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Peter Stewart

9:37 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

It does leave one pause to wonder why those people such as Mr. Ryan haven't weighed in with support for this 11 year old girl. Will they support this new life? Will they pay for the medical help a little girl will require to bring this baby to term. People like Mr. Ryan are quick to spout sound bites to stir the rabble but slow to offer any long term help or relief for those left behind. If your stand is so strong Mr. Ryan...or the other fellow. Where is your rhetoric now???

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Betta

4:44 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

You are the idiot. Don't blame conservatives for something one asshole Akins said. Not the baby's fault what the daddy did. You talk like the baby is the evil one.

Becca Collins

9:38 am on Monday, September 3, 2012

Lori f: shining example of rape culture. Let's just make assumptions based on stereotypes of single motherhood, and take an accepting attitude of "scumbag boyfriend" rather than be shocked and disgusted at the rapist himself. Because the responsibility to maintain a standard of human behavior rests solely on the shoulders of those who are victimized, right?

You're a horrible person.

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Sandy

3:56 pm on Monday, September 3, 2012

I can't imagine trusting my daughter to a man who's been in and out of jail 10 times, but that's just me I guess. This poor little girl. Her life will never be the same. At least he's gone.

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Lori Byrnes

4:17 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I don't know why any mother would leave her daughter alone with a career criminal unless she was using him for money. There have been horrific stories of mothers who have pimped out their own children to support their drug habits (not saying that is the case here, but she still shouldn't have left her child alone with him). She obviously wasn't thinking about the consequences that could (and did) come from her poor choice.

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Betta

4:53 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

Not knowing for sure what happened here, but is makes me sick how some women bring any kind of man around their kids just for the sake of having a man. Most often it is her boyfriend. Can't see how she didn't pick up on SOMETHING such as a change in her daughter's behavior. Shows she wasn't paying attention and it probably happened more than once. Poor girl will probably hate men now.

kristal

12:00 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Very sad and unfortunate situations to happen to 11 year old prayers go out to her family..,.....

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jonna

9:49 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Wow. We must protect our children I understand being a single mother but our children should come 1st. My mother worked all the time yet my 2 older sick brothers molested me constantly im thankful that my younger brothers father saw my brother violating me and told my mother. Again we must protect our children. Wake up mothers please. Im just grateful that I did not become pregnant. I still suffer mentally from what occurred. I just continue to pray and thank God for each better day.

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Lori Byrnes

4:15 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Jonna, I'm so sorry for what you went through. I suffered something similar as a child, done by a family member. That's why it makes me so angry when people like "Al" say that the poor eleven year old should have to carry the baby to term and give it up for adoption. If I had gotten pregnant at that age, every time the baby kicked it would have reminded me of being molested weekly by an adopted cousin for 5 years. I don't think that should be forced on anyone. I too still suffer from what happened, and it was 40 years ago. "Al"-unless you had something similar happen to you and had to carry the baby of that monster for 9 months, you need to keep your opinions to yourself. Saying that she "doesn't have to see the baby" doesn't matter-it's still inside her body for the better part of a year. That's something she will NEVER recover from.

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db

10:30 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

close friends of the family and the pregnancy was terminated

smith zenny

5:26 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Trails End buddy, Trails End. That's all I have to say.

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Walter Jasniewski

8:34 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Its ironic that people that believe in Abortion do not believe in the death penalty, and vice versa. A deadbeat like this should have been shot years ago.

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Thinker

9:49 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I believe in abortion, I believe in the death penalty, I carry a gun - i think were in a police state, and I don't need to call them - I am not a liberal, or part of political party: i think (and I think the world is wasted on joiners with no thoughts of their own). Die

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Lori Byrnes

2:20 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012

Like Thinker, I believe in both, especially in the case of rape or incest. Who are these idiot politicians to say that someone who was molested should have to carry a baby to term. You notice that the majority of those with that attitude are men, who would never have to go through the experience of carrying an unwanted child for 9 months. It's bad enough that she'll always remember being molested. Since it happened to me (molestation) at the same age 40 years ago, I speak from experience.

Derek Jones

10:37 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Good job cops! But the RNC says she should have that child! Please people... wakeup!

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Lori Byrnes

11:15 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Derek-I bet they would feel differently if it was their 11 year old who had been repeatedly molested and got pregnant by this monster. What a bunch of hippocrits. How would they like their "baby" to have to go through the trauma of carrying this rapist's baby for 9 months, only to give it up for adoption and have to live with it the rest of her life. I'm glad to hear from the friend of the family that the pregnancy was terminated (and that females still have that right in this country).

anrold

2:17 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Thankfully, that unborn child was aborted. The DNA of the sad person that impregnated the child was in that unborn child. Obviously this is a sickness a person is born with. Yes, we want this person out of the gene pool. Our society does not accept this behavior, rightly so. But the death penalty solves nothing, it costs money to litigate the sentence. Why not convict and throw away the key.
Do research on criminals in return for better accommodations to see why they are wired the way they are? Then test for the defect on any pregnant women who wants to know. How sad for the mother of a child molester. I would not want to bring one to this world.

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Teemac

7:50 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Mitt Romney has stated that he supports abortion in case of rape or if the mother's lifr is in danger. Please vote for him and save our beloved country. God bless those police officers, they did the right thing.

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Reneefarm

10:26 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

That is so sad. The Lord got another angel.

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me me me

3:20 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Glad that scum is dead; thank you police department. Mother was beyond stupid to take up with a person like that.
Just one question, for that moron politician Aiken: Was this a legitimate rape, or do you think the little girl wanted this??

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John

10:39 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

They should have tazed him and given him a fair trial. Now his daughter will grow up without a father. I hope she doesn't have an abortion. 2 deaths will not resolve anything.

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christie

11:24 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

John, are you kidding me right now with that ridiculous comment? Are you insane? Maybe you should go check in to the nearest mental institution and get a check-up! Don't wait go now there is something wrong with you!

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Franco Di Palma

3:03 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

What would Jesus do? Just curious as to what people think about that question.

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Franco Di Palma

3:04 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

You can never justify a wrong with another wrong.

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Lori Byrnes

3:29 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Teemac-Mitt Romney originally stated that he was against abortion even in cases of rape and incest and it wasn't until he started losing support from the women of the country that he changed his stance and said that he would support it in cases of rape and incest. I would never vote for someone who tried to tell me what I could or couldn't do with my body, especially when he only changed his statement to redeem himself in the eyes of women voters.

And to "John"-I agree with Christie-you have to have something mentally wrong to say that this molestor should be have been kept alive to be a "father" to anyone. If he was molesting his girlfriends daughter, what makes you think he wouldn't molest his own child?

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Romney for America

4:59 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

ya cause Obama NEVER EVER changed his stance to redeem his likability.

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Lori Byrnes

2:22 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012

@ Romney for America-I never said that Obama didn't-in this case the discussion was about Romney and his views on incest. Don't try to put words in my mouth.

DON DAVIS

8:32 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

good job deputies,although taking a life is hard,you did the right thing,that coward committed the worst crime possible,then continued on his cowardly path to suicide by cop,he didnt care about the mothers feelings,the lil girls or yours,so please dont lose sleep over it,take this time to rest,spend it with your own children,and know without reservation why you pin that badge on every morning.THANK YOU DEPUTIES!!

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kelly

6:24 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

A horrible man hurt this precious child and he got exactly what he deserved....my only hope is that in his final moments he suffered tremendous pain. So proud of the deputies for all their hard work, praying that they are at peace with doing the right thing.

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harry williams

2:57 pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012

a similar case in michigan, same age child (11yrs) who had baby from the rape done by mothers boyfriend. (he is in jail)...these deputies got any vacation time coming????

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