Jealous Boyfriend Shot At St. Pete Home Of Girlfriend’s Ex: Sheriff

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A jealous boyfriend suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting when he tried to confront his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend in unincorporated St. Petersburg Wednesday night, according to a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office news release.

When deputies arrived at a home on 79th Street N. just after 8:30 p.m., they found Matthew Weisner, 39, in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck with a gunshot wound to the head.

He was brought to a hospital, where he is on life support and not expected to survive, the sheriff’s office said.

Investigators learned that Weisner is in a relationship with 38-year-old Amber Souza. They were at her Pinellas Park home, where they were drinking, Wednesday evening.

After they began arguing, Weisner contacted her “previous boyfriends out of jealousy,” the sheriff’s office said.

When he called Souza’s ex-boyfriend, 36-year-old Michael McMann, Weisner began yelling at McMann and threatening him with a gun. Weisner said he was driving to McMann’s St. Petersburg area home.

Michael wasn’t home when Wesiner arrived, though his brother, 30-year-old Austin McMann, was there. Austin, who hadn’t seen Weisner before, saw the truck outside, and thought because of its speed and the angle it arrived at that it had been involved in a crash.

Armed with his own gun, Austin went outside and demanded that Weisner leave the property, the sheriff’s office said. Weisner continued to yell and reached into his truck’s center console.

“Austin heard a sound he felt was consistent with the racking of a gun slide and saw corresponding movement,” the sheriff’s office said. “Austin told detectives he was in fear for his life and fired an unknown number of shots toward Weisner.”

He went back into the home and called 911. He is cooperating with the investigation and told detectives the shooting was in self-defense, the agency said.