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Meanwhile in (#PinellasCounty Sheriff's Office) #BritanyJacobs sat parked in the handicap spot, right in the middle of #MichaelDrejka’s pet peeve. She had just finished up a nursing shift Thursday, and she and her boyfriend, #MarkeisMcGlockton, had a car full of children, all under age 6. So she sent McGlockton and their 5-year-old into a Circle A in #ClearwaterFla., for snacks and drinks while she rested in the parked car — or at least tried to. Also in the lot was Drejka, a regular at the Circle A who regularly took issue with able-bodied people parking in the reserved spot. He circled Jacob’s car, looking for a handicap decal and, finding none, proceeded to forcefully explain to her the finer points of Florida’s disabled parking regulations. “He’s getting out like he’s a police officer or something, and he’s approaching me,” Jacobs told the Tampa Bay Times. Jacobs said the conversation grew heated, drawing the attention of other store patrons, including McGlockton, who abandoned his snack run. He came out of the store, then quickly closed the distance between himself and the man confronting the mother of his children and shoved Drejka to the ground. That action, and the seconds that followed it, have thrust the dispute over the handicap parking spot into the nationwide debate about “#standyourground” laws. Now seated on the ground, Drejka reached into his pocket, pulled out a pistol and fired a single shot into McGlockton’s chest, an action shown clearly on surveillance video released by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. McGlockton clutched his chest, staggered into the convenience store and collapsed. Later, his girlfriend ran into the store and applied pressure to the bullet wound in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the bleeding. Related: [What ‘stand your ground’ laws actually mean] McGlockton, 28, died a short time later, leaving his family to bury him and the rest of Pinellas County to grapple with the legality of his killer’s actions. On Friday, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced that Drejka would not be arrested or charged with a crime, saying that his actions fell within the legal boundaries of Florida’s “stand your ground” law.