Trial for teen who injured police with 2 assault rifles postponed until next year

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Trial for teen who injured police with 2 assault rifles postponed until next year

Police News

Friday, 09 November 2012 16:33

By Fallan Patterson
Staff Writer

Two St. Cloud police officers won’t see justice until next year for the injuries they suffered after Kissimmee teen David Penney allegedly terrorized a neighborhood last November with assault rifles.
Penney’s defense attorney, Warren Lindsey, was granted a continuance Tuesday for insufficient preparedness.
Penney, who turns 20 two days prior to his newly rescheduled Jan. 14 trial, is accused of firing into an Alabama Avenue duplex with two AK-47 assault rifles before turning the weapons on then-rookie Officer Spencer Endsley and his trainer, Officer Clinton Wise.
Endsley sustained injuries to his eyes, face, arms and hands due to the windshield of the patrol car shattering from the bullets Penney was allegedly firing.
Wise was shot in the foot while returning fire and spent several weeks off the job healing after surgery.
Dressed in head-to-toe camouflage including a tactical vest, Penney shot himself in the face and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
He has been held in the Osceola County Jail since being released from the hospital in December 2011.
Penney faces a multitude of charges including two counts each of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, aggravated battery causing great bodily arm with a firearm, aggravated assault with a firearm and one count each of shooting at, within or into a building and shooting at, within or into an occupied vehicle.