Florida law protects identity of a killer in Stand Your Ground shooting

On March 1, 2019, David Norgard texted his mother, Sylvia, that he’d be home shortly after 9 p.m.

Seven minutes later, a 911 call came into the Collier County Sheriff’s office.

After an argument with another driver near the intersection of 23rd Street Southwest and 16th Street Southwest in eastern Collier County, Norgard, 24, was shot.

The man who killed Norgard told police he acted in self-defense and that Norgard was punching him. He was cleared of arrest after the State Attorney’s Office reviewed the case. In the case notes, a prosecutor wrote he felt the case would not survive a Stand Your Ground immunity hearing.

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