SARASOTA - Surveillance video of a deadly Sarasota convenience store shootout has been released. It happened in February along North Tamiami Trail, and late Monday afternoon the state attorney's office released the video and the discovery documents in the case.
You'd never know from the calm at the store now, that a man died on the spot and another was wounded just over a month ago.
A video camera there was rolling that day, and here's what it saw.
It all happened so fast. Police say it started when 40-year-old Paul Kallenbach and 35-year-old Jon Teco Howard got into an argument in the store. Kallenbach pulled a gun, Howard wrestled it away and shot Kallenbach. But Kallenbach had two more guns and he returned fire and killed Howard.
Kallenbach was not a stranger to police. When they pulled him over last June they discovered a large number of loaded weapons in his truck. He talked about the incident to ABC 7's Brad Giffen. "I had some pellets on the front console and two cases there, one with a shotgun, one with a rifle. Two hip packs, one containing a .357 magnum a .38 special and a .380."
Police thought Kallenbach sounded paranoid and took him in for a mental evaluation...and confiscated his weapons. But 5 hours later, a mental health professional gave him the all clear, and since he had a concealed weapons permit, a judge told ABC 7 she had no choice but to return his weapons.
Kallenbach told us he always carried loaded weapons because he feared a dangerous man named "Ted" was going to sexually molest him. "The pistols are in case he's in a close area or he's grappling with me and perhaps I have to reach for my pistols for my safety. The rifles are for long range. If he were to start lobbing deadly missiles at me at 100 feet away, I have nothing to hit him with. If I pull out a pistol I could miss and hit someone. If I pull out a rifle with deadly shot accuracy, you know, I can stop somebody from committing a felony on my person."
Today Kallenbach sits in the Sarasota County Jail awaiting trial for 2nd degree murder. Prosecutors hope this surveillance video helps keep him locked up.
