Man fired shots, slurs from boat in Clam Bayou, police say. He faces hate crime charges.
Visitors to the St. Petersburg park said Joshua Rousseau called them racist slurs and threatened their lives as he shot at them with an air rifle in February.
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Joshua Rousseau faces counts of aggravated assault. Prosecutors filed hate-crime charges in five of those cases, arguing that his attack showed prejudice, that would result in a harsher sentence if he is convicted. [ Pinellas County Sheriff s Office ]
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ST. PETERSBURG â Carlos Lovett was about to leave Clam Bayou Nature Park on Feb. 20 when a commotion broke the serene atmosphere.