Balcony falls used to be a regular occurrence during Spring Break. But Panama City Beach police say the fall that happened early Tuesday morning, wasn’t the spring breaker’s fault. They say she was pushed after she was raped by a security guard.

Police are looking for a man suspected of raping an 18 year old Tuscaloosa Alabama Spring Breaker and then pushing her off a sixth floor balcony. It happened early this morning at the Sandpiper Beacon Motel just past Highway 79 on Front Beach Road.

Panama City Beach police have issued an arrest warrant for 29 year-old Shawn Wuertly. They say Wuertly is the man responsible for sexually battering an 18-year-old Spring Breaker from Tuscaloosa and then pushing her off the balcony around 1:00 Am Monday.

Police originally thought the girl fell but witnesses have now come forward and say she was pushed.

Police say Weurtly and the teenager did not know each other before she came to Panama City Beach but Weurtly apparently made contact with her several times. He works as a security guard at the Sandpiper Beacon and has been in town about 6 months.

Major David Humphreys of the Beach Police says Weurtly’s name came up right away.

"He was identified at the scene as a possible suspect. He was interviewed here at the Beach police department. There was not enough evidence to charge him at the time. When we gathered enough evidence we could not locate him. We had phone conversations with him and he indicated he was leaving the state"

Beach Police took this picture of Wuertly Monday morning, when they first questioned him about the incident.

They say he is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black jacket with a yellow shirt and woodland camouflage pants. Weurtly also has two visible tattoos on his neck.

Humphreys says Weurtly does not have a car so he could possibly still be in the area although he told police he was going to visit family in Tennessee.

So investigators have issued warrants for Wuertly’s arrest. He’s charged with attempted murder, sexual battery and false imprisonment. If you have any information about Shaun Wuertly, please call the Panama City Beach Police Department immediately at 850-233-5000.
Wuertly is wanted on burglary charges in Indiana. In fact, he has several prior arrests in Indiana including an escape charge, burglary and intimidation.

Doctors say the 18-year-old Tuscaloosa Alabama woman is in an improving condition. Her injuries are now classified as non-life threatening. She hit two rooftops during her fall, which police say may have prevented her from suffering more serious injuries.

That happened Sunday I believe. I was telling Daniel Lee about it last night. It was on the news yesterday and if I'm not mistaken, I could have sworn they said they caught him on the news last night. Crazy that happened. Its a shame to be honest and sad. I just hope the girl lives. It just goes to show anything can happen, anywhere. Everyone needs to be careful out there, theres no need for this crap.

Edit: NVM, I just noticed it said it happened around 1am Monday morning. And I guess they haven't caught him yet.

I hope you heard right and they have caught him. They ought to throw him over the balcony.....but higher than the 6th floor.

Crazy messed up!

Leave it to gagirl to post uplifting stories like this...lolz...other uplifting threads posted gagirl were

"Joe Francis Comes Back to Panama City"
"Shores of Panama files for Bankruptcy"
"Local Businesses Upset Over Spring Break Advertising"

haha, ok ok ok...she's also posted some nice stuff too, I'm kidding though,...I love you gagirl!

Wow thats crazy.....and what i think is almost as crazy is you had a conversation with daniel lee last night and could understand him.....I got about 5 calls from him yesterday and the ones last night at 4 am i couldnt understand what he was even saying

lol no kiddin man. I finally had to tell him I had to go Drunk calls

Speaking of which, Jsmitty did you ever make it to PCB?

Nope, sat in an airport for about 16 hours yesterday, they wouldnt give me a refund even tho it was their fault, made me pay for a hotel and then a rental car to drive back to the airport i first started at........Never been this mad before....if they woulda just given me a refund I would have drove down by myself to meet my group....so now I just sit around and get all these texts and calls from everyone down there and its the worst feeling ever haha

They caught that dude. And the victim is expected to recover from her physical injuries.

Well thats good to hear....I cant believe she is gonna be fine from having that happen to her.......Im still confused as to why the hell he would do that in front of people.......I mean I dont know why you would do something that sick to begin with but wow atleast everything is gonna be ok

thats good to hear...poor girl though...mentally she'll probably be messed up for the rest of her life. I dont see how i'd recover from something like that.

I was on my way to the tiki bar and I was right around the corner when this happened!!! I heard it all and thoght she was dead until i heard her screaming when they put her on the stretcher. It really scared me!!! I didnt know anything about the security guard until the next day though. Im sooo glad shes doing okay! I hope they found him!!!

About 3 posts up from your post.