Convict sought in fatal Largo drive-by shooting - St. Petersburg Times: "man in a black SUV aimed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol at the women and opened fire, Largo police said. The woman in the car sped away as the gun barked again and again. Two of the women dashed into the store for cover.
But Annie Marie Conyers, 26, didn't make it. The Clearwater woman was shot in the lower torso. She died hours later.
The man behind the trigger, Largo police said, was Larry Joe Jerry Jr., a 300-pound convict with a long history of arrests for drugs and violence — including domestic violence.
But Conyers was not his target, said the suspect's half-sister, Malaya Pelham. The two women who escaped into the store were.
But that didn't stop Jerry from ambushing them with two family members in the line of fire, Pelham said. Another half-sister was the driver who fled, and a bullet penetrated the child's car seat and just missed his 1-year-old niece, Pelham said.
'He's not scared of nothing,' Pelham said. 'That's why I'm scared of him, because I know how my brother is. He's crazy.'
Jerry, 26, quickly became the target of a dragnet of Pinellas County. He is wanted on one charge of murder and four counts of attempted murder.
Jerry, who police said is armed and dangerous, was still on the loose Tuesday night. But Pelham said she doesn't expect her brother to come in peacefully.
'I already know he's going to die,' she said, 'because he's going to shoot back"