In an image from surveillance video provided by the Orange County, Fla.,Sheriff’s Office, Sean Petrozzino, a 30-year-old quadruple amputee, is seen at a bank ATM on Nov. 4, 2014, the day his parents were shot.ORLANDO, Fla. – As a teenager who had survived a devastating bacterial infection that left him a quadruple amputee, Sean Petrozzino wowed those around him with his upbeat attitude.
But last week, authorities in central Florida were describing the now 30-year-old Petrozzino as “armed and dangerous” and “a person of interest” following the fatal shooting of his parents in their Orlando home. On Tuesday, detectives from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office went to Memphis to determine if Petronizzo was the driver who shot himself to death after being pulled over by police officers during a Monday evening traffic stop.
Memphis police officers said they heard a “pop” sound as they exited their car, and then found the driver dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A positive identification hasn’t yet been made.
Orange County detectives had been looking for Sean Petrozzino for the past week after the bodies of Nancy Petrozzino, 64, and Michael Petrozzino, 63, were found fatally shot inside their home. Deputies went to the home a week ago after colleagues at the school where Nancy Petrozzino taught second-grade became concerned when she didn’t show up. Michael Petrozzino worked at Walt Disney World.
Petrozzino had two prosthetic legs. A photo of Sean Petrozzino at a bank ATM on the day his parents were shot shows him without any prosthetics for his hands. The photo was released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, and an agency spokeswoman said Tuesday she didn’t have any information on whether Petrozzino used prosthetics for his hands.