Stanley Byron Daniels has been adjudicated guilty and sentenced, immediately after being convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and Discharging a Firearm and Shooting At/Within or Into a Dwelling/Building. The jury returned the guilty verdict just after 7 p.m. Tuesday night, following a one-day trial in Hendry County. The defendant was sentenced to 8 years in prison on each count, concurrent, followed by 6 years of probation.
Assistant State Attorneys Trevor Selph and Natalie Savino prosecuted the case. The sentence will also run concurrent with a prison sentence he is currently serving on a grand theft case.
On June 30, 2023, the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a shooting at an apartment complex. Two adults and two small children had been watching TV in the living room when they heard two gunshots. One of the rounds broke a window and the bullet pierced a wall. They picked up the kids and ran to another room for safety. One woman received minor cuts from glass but luckily no one was seriously injured.
Deputies received information about the possible shooter and were able to retrieve surveillance video from a nearby convenience store which identified the defendant, Stanley Byron Daniels, as the shooter.
On the video, Daniels can be seen getting out of a maroon Dodge pickup truck, holding a gun. He then begins shooting at an unknown male who was running towards the apartment complex. There was also a spent shell casing from a gun found on the ground at the store.
Deputies located the truck, parked in a driveway of a home in Clewiston. When Daniels was being taken into custody, the firearm used in the crime, a Taurus Spectrum 380, was also recovered and taken into evidence. There were three 9-millimeter rounds in the magazine, which matched the shell casing found at the store.
Samantha Syoen – State Attorney’s Office Communications Director