Two school teachers mistakenly entered a wrong flat, with one getting in bed with a married couple leading to a shooting and one of the intruders charged with attempted murder.
PE teacher Darius Tyonne Cohen and Akkua Jamel Hallback, both 26, have now both been fired from their jobs at Indian River County School District, in Florida, after a night out on October 10 got out of hand.
Cohen, who is now facing an attempted murder charge, was out with Hallback who met a woman at a bar in Vero Beach, and the pair went back to her flat, reported the Daily Mail.
Hallback went inside her apartment, while Cohen waited outside, and then Hallback left after a few hours and went to his car.
At this point Cohen is believed to have needed the toilet and so they went to go back to the woman’s flat but by mistake entered the wrong apartment, said the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.
Inside the flat, Cohen went to the toilet and Hallback got into bed with who he thought was the woman, but in fact was a married couple and a three-year-old child.
Police say that the two PE teachers were escorted out of the flat by the man when a scuffle broke out and a gun was drawn.
Sheriff Eric Flowers said that it is still unclear who owned the gun.
But CCTV footage shows a man running across a lawn with the two teachers following and then four shots can be heard.
The man kept running despite being shot in the back and eventually was able to call the police from another apartment.
The two teachers claim it was the man from the apartment who produced the gun, that has not been found, and that Cohen tried to take it from him.
Cohen is being charged with attempted murder while Hallback is accused of possessing the drug Adderall without prescription.
"At any point, they could have stopped and called 911," Sheriff Flowers said.
"They could have said: 'We’re in the wrong apartment and this guy’s produced a gun,' any of those things. They could have stopped, but they didn’t. They fled and they didn’t involved law enforcement in any way.’
Both men had no previous criminal convictions and police have said that their school had done all the necessary background tests on them.
