Gordon King
Former Orange County, Florida sheriff’s deputy, Gordon King, was convicted of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm following a 2019 attack with a knife. The victim in the incident? An unnamed divorce attorney representing King’s now former wife.
The attorney had canceled a scheduled deposition due to a no contact order against King. That’s when the physical altercation began. Law & Crime has a description of the disturbing event:
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“What are you going to do now, you fat little bitch?!” he said in a confrontation allegedly captured on audio.
King punched the man in the head and chest.
“What are you going to do now?!” he said in the affidavit. The attorney said he was going to call 911, but King grabbed the phone and threw it.
Someone said “911 is on the way.”
“Well, fuck it then,” King said, then grabbed the man and tried to slam his head to the conference table three times.
“I’m going to kill you right now, you fat little fucker!” King said.
The attorney pulled out a knife for self-defense but King grabbed him and continued to threaten to kill him.
“I’m going to kill you,” the former deputy said. “You’re going to die right here. I’m going to kill you.”
King took the knife and began to slash at him. The attorney blocked a cut to his throat, instead sustaining a cut to his hand. But the former deputy managed to stab him twice in the left side.
In court, King reportedly attributed the attack to his post-traumatic stress disorder. King has had trouble with the law before, including pleading no contest to a battery charge in December 2017, after which he quit the police force. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the knife attack on the divorce attorney.
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