A 16-year-old boy who had ingested LSD was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a Florida home Thursday morning, hours after he fired shots at police officers who had responded to a 911 call from his grandmother, according to police.
West Melbourne police announced the teen’s death in a tweet at shortly after 6:30am Thursday.
The teen has been identified as 16-year-old Michael Proctor.
His grandmother, who was inside the home at the time of the incident, said he had used LSD hours before he killed himself.
‘He was a good kid; he did good in school,’ Gregory Proctor, the teen’s father, told Florida Today.
Michael Proctor, a 16-year-old boy who had ingested LSD, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a Florida home Thursday morning
Proctor’s body was found hours after he fired shots at police officers who had responded to a 911 call from his grandmother
His grandmother, who was inside the home at the time of the incident, said he had used LSD hours before he killed himself
Proctor’s grandmother said he was an honor roll student who took music classes and once built a computer on his own
‘He was on drugs, and it made him violent.’
Lorene Powers, the boy’s grandmother, said it was the first time he had used LSD.
‘He just got scared,’ she said.
Officers arrived at the home just before midnight after the grandmother called 911, telling dispatchers her grandson was throwing things inside the home.
Powers, her daughter Libby Morey, and her son, who is deaf, were in the home with Michael Proctor at the time of the incident.
Libby told Florida Today her deaf brother was woken up by police hours after the shots were fired.
Police went to the neighborhood and were interviewing residents of the house when Proctor came out of a back bedroom and started firing a gun, according to a police report.
The officers retreated toward the front door with three other residents of the home as he kept firing.
No one was injured and police did not return fire.
A 16-year-old boy was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a Florida home Thursday morning, hours after he fired shots at police officers who had responded to a 911 call from his grandmother, according to police
A SWAT team surrounded the house all night and several nearby homes were evacuated.
Police said on Twitter on Thursday that neighbors were being allowed back in, but roads in the neighborhood will be restricted to local traffic as investigators continue to process the scene.
Powers said her grandson was an honor roll student who took music classes and once built a computer on his own.
She said that on the night of the incident, he ingested LSD which made him paranoid and disoriented.
‘He kept saying to me, “I’m going to die”,’ Powers said.
She said he had brought in a gun from outside the home.
A SWAT team surrounded the house on Martin Lane (seen above on Google Maps) in West Melbourne all night and several nearby homes were evacuated
Power said her grandson purchased LSD from a classmate with the $20 she gave him for lunch money.
Michael Proctor was on probation after a run-in with the police in April that was not drug-related, she said.
As per the terms of his probation, he was required to be home from 7pm to 7am.
‘He was always on time,’ Powers said.
‘When he got home, he told me about [the drugs].’
Melbourne is on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.