Man charged in heart-attack death during Middleburg break-in

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A man who burglarized a Middleburg home has been charged with the murder of an elderly man who had a heart attack during the invasion, officials said. <br> <br> Jimmie Boyd, 26, was charged Friday for the death of Willie Padgett, who was 69 when he died. <br> <br> Three or four people broke into Padgett&#39;s home on Feb. 27, 1998, first throwing a cement block through a bedroom window and firing a gun through the kitchen window, said Clay County Sheriff&#39;s Sgt. Wes Gronikowski. <br> <br> The burglars knocked Padgett&#39;s wife, Shirley, out of her wheel chair and bound their son with duct tape before hitting him in the eye with the butt of a shotgun, according to sheriff&#39;s reports. <br> <br> Willie Padgett began to have trouble breathing and his eyes rolled back in his head, but the burglars denied the family&#39;s pleas to give the ailing man his nitroglycerine pills call an ambulance, officials said. Willie died of a heart attack at the scene. <br> <br> Witnesses told authorities that Boyd told them he planned to rob the Padgetts and later admitted to the robbery but said he didn&#39;t intend for anyone to die, according to court documents. <br> <br> Boyd fled to Georgia and later moved to the Fort Myers area, according to court documents. He was arrested in September for possessing seven pounds of marijuana. <br> <br> No one else has been arrested in the case.