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Tampa security guard shoots at men urinating in parking garage

A Tampa security guard has been arrested after opening fire on two men who were urinating in an Ybor City parking garage.

Cellphone video captured by one of the victims on Sunday morning shows their confrontation with security guard Everoy Farqharson who was employed by Iron Eagle Security. The company was hired by the City of Tampa  to provide 10 armed security guards in downtown parking garages for the safety of visitors.

According to Fox 35, Farqharson approaches the men after catching at least one of them urinating in the empty parking lot. Farqharson boxes in the victim's car with his golf cart and things get heated. The victim's yell for Farqharson to call the police.

When one of the men gets in the security golf cart to move it, Farqharson shoves him. He then throws a punch and misses. That's when Farqharson goes for his gun.

"What are you going to shoot him?" yells the man's friend who is recording the entire incident.

"You're on video, bro. I didn't touch you," screams the other man. 

Farqharson then knocks the cellphone out of the man's hand. The screen goes black but the audio is still recording. Gunshots are heard being fired across the parking lot.

"In terms of what you saw in the video: that is not protocol and not what we promote in the city of Tampa,"  Ocea Lattimore, who oversees the hiring of armed security guards for the City of Tampa, tells Fox 35.

Security guards are allowed to carry guns but according to protocol, they are supposed to leave physical force to the police.
 
No one was injured in the shooting. Farqharson was arrested and  is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, battery, tampering with evidence and burglary of a conveyance.

**WARNING: BAD LANGUAGE**

Watch the video HERE.

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