OUR FREE WPBF 25 NEWS APP TREASURE COAST MAN ACCUSED AND CHARGED WITH SHOOTINGT A DEPUTIES DURING AN EARLY MORNING DRUG RAID IN HIS HEOM BACKN I 2017 WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. BUTAS W FOUND GUILTY POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON. AFTER A TRIAL SPANNING MULTIPLE WEEKS THE JURY REACHED THEIR VERDICTS THIS AFTERNOON INHE T TRLIA OF ANDREW COFFEY THE FOURTH OUR STEVE KING JOINS US FROM INDIAN RIVER COUNTY WITH REACTION FROM BOTH SIDES. ANDREW COFFEY’S FAMILY AND FRIENDS LOOKED RELIEVED WHEN THEY FOUND OUT HE WAS NOT GOING TO BE SPENDING THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON, BUT THEY LOOKED SHOCKED WNHE THEY FOUND OUT HE COULD SERVE UP TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER BEING CONVIEDCT OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A FELON. WE THE JURY FIND ANDREW JEFF COFFEE THE FOURTH AS TO COUNT FOUR ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER OF AAW L ENFORCEMENT OFFICER PAT WHITE NOT GUILTY COFFEE WAS ALSO FOUNDOT N GUILTY OF KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND. ULTERIA WOODS WHO WAS KILLED IN THE CROSSFIRE AFTER POLICE S, SHOT AT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES DURING AN EARLY MORNGNI DRUG RAID IN 2017 COFFEE’S DEFENSE ATTORNEYS RETINGAC TO THE VERDICT. I’M EXCEPTIONALLY HAPPY WITH THE JOURNEY’S VERDICTND A THEY APPLIED THE LAW PROPERLY AND THEY CAME BACK WITH VERDICTS THAT WERE JUST THAT TTHA HE WAS IN A SELF-DEFENSE MODE THAT HE WAS PROTECTING HIMSELF AND THAT HE DIDOT N KNOW. THAT THESE WERE OFFICERS OUTSIDE. SO I TNKHI HE’S VINDICATED FROM THAT STANDPOINT NO MATTER WHAT HE’S NEVER GOING TO RECOVER HIS GIRLFRIENDND A THAT’S AN EMOTIONAL PUNISHMENT THAT HE WILL SUFFER THE RESTF O HIS LIFE. THE SHERIFF SAYS IN PART QU IS DISAPPOINTING THAT THIS JURY DID TNO SEE THAT THE TRAGIC DEATH OF ALTERIA WOODS OCCURRED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE ACTIONS OF ANDREW COFFEY THE FOURTH HEARTS GO OUT TO THE WOODS FAMILY AS THEY STILL SUFFER FROM A LOSS OF THEIR DAUGHTER, BUT WE STAND BY OUR STATEMENT THAT SHE WOULD STILL BE HERE HAD COFFEE SIMPLY COMPLIED WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT GUILTY. BUT COFFEE COULD SERVE UP TO 30 YEARS FOR POSSESSION O AF FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON COFFEE SENTENCING IS SET FOR JANUARY REPORTING