Deputies: Plant City man fired at girlfriend as she hacked through his door with an axe

PLANT CITY — After his girlfriend started whacking at his door with an axe, William Floyd started shooting, deputies said Wednesday.

No one was hurt in the 2 a.m. domestic dispute at 2811 S County Line Road, said Hillsborough Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter. Floyd, 44, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Carter said it seems Floyd's live-in girlfriend couldn't get into his front door and tried to chop it down. So Floyd fired a round at the door with a .38-caliber handgun. The girlfriend drove away and refused to answer an investigator's questions, Carter said.

Floyd admitted to shooting the gun but told deputies he had only fired into the air as the woman was leaving, an arrest report states. Floyd was taken to the Hillsborough County Jail and has been released on bail of $4,000.