Update: Gunman Identified in Fla. School Board Shooting
- Posted on December 14, 2010 at 5:56pm by
Meredith Jessup
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UPDATE:
The latest reports out of Florida suggests the armed perpetrator who took over a Bay County school board meeting Tuesday was shot and killed. The gunman has been identified as Clay Duke, a man whose wife had been recently fired by the school system. According to news reports, Duke was shot by former school board member and district security chief Mike Jones who was not in attendance at the meeting, but was alerted to the threat.
A local news reporter, Daniel Carson, was present in the meeting and offered this eye-witness account for the police:
“They had just got into the action item portion of the agenda, having a discussion about a revision to school board policy. This guy had been sitting in the back of room, not acting irratically or anything. He got up and walked to podium, but I couldnt see that he had a gun.
“He pulls out a can of red spray paint, muttered something like ‘you’re a bunch of assholes’ to school board … and draws on the wall a red circle with ‘v’ through it. He pulls out this gun that turned out to be a cap gun, I think, and he started talking to the school board and told everyone to clear the room except the men on the school board.
“Then Ginger Littleton, I think, swung her purse at him. Nobody knew it was a cap gun. I couldnt tell if he hit her or not, but looked like she kind of went down. She’s not injured by the way.”
Carson was outside the back door of the room with two others, including Bay Defense Alliance representative Leon Walters and teacher Dianne Wishart, and they cracked the door to see what was happening inside.
“We kept peeking in to make sure he hadn’t killed the entire school board. We closed the door, and I heard two pops. Mike Jones must have entered from another door inside the building and shot the guy.
“I went back in there, the guy is on the floor, blood coming out of his head. Bill Husfelt is consoling Mike Jones, they led Mike Jones back to that conference room adjacent to the main board room, all of them consoiling him, and then the police came in.”
Duke was reportedly taken out of the building on a stretcher, but no citizens or board members were injured. Although the shooter is believed to have died, police have offered no official word on his status.
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A gunman entered a Panama City, Fla. school board meeting Tuesday afternoon and opened fire, reportedly with his cross-hairs aimed at the school’s superintendent. The Associated Press reports:
According to a WMBB reporter at Tuesday’s meeting, the man came up to the podium at the Bay District School Board meeting and said that he had a motion. He then pulled out a can of red spray paint and painted a “V” with a circle around it.
Reporter Nadeen Yanes told her station that he then pulled a handgun and started talking.
School Board member Ginger Littleton struck the gunman with her purse and he pushed her to the ground and started firing randomly.
Yanes and other persons in attendance at the meeting ran outside as police entered the building.
Police confirmed that a shooting confirmed but had no further information.
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hempstead1944
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:56pmOnly person more unbalanced than the shooter were the folks on the school board……what a bunch of arrogant, self serving a**holes. Now do you understane why the US is now 25th out of 34 countries in education? Oh! you didn’t know that? You still thought we were #1? Wakeup folks!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:54pmHe is a nutcase at the end of his rope. Luckily the only one hurt was himself. The guard is a hero.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:34pmIf it comes to be know that this man 1) knows how to spell Beck, 2) has ever purchased a Beck book or even a coffee mug or God help us if he 3) went to the Beck Rally in Washington, then it is going to get ugly quick!!!!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:11pmIt’s tar and feathers time.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 10:54pm“Police confirmed that a shooting confirmed but had no further information”
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:01pm(Sorry, posted before I was finished by accident.)
Does the AP not proofread?
Report Post »BlazingInSC
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 10:30pmI’m wondering if perhaps the guy subscribed to the philosophy of Voluntaryism (which uses a similar symbol). I‘m thinking he’s a left-libertarian Noam Chomsky kinda guy. Although, the modern anarcho-capitalist voluntaryist kinda dude usually believes in non-violent forms of transition to an anarchist free-market system. Just very odd – the whole paint thing and the shooting thing… He should be dead for his actions.
Report Post »bs2722
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 9:32pmHe’s a class warfare rich hater….
From Duke’s Facebook profile, expressions of a class-warfare hate-the-rich scheme:
“Some people (the government sponsored media) will say I was evil, a monster (V)… no… I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the population. Rich Republicans, Rich Democrats… same-same… rich… they take turns fleecing us… our few dollars… pyramiding the wealth for themselves. The 95%… the us, in US of A, are the neo slaves of the Global South. Our Masters, the Wealthy, do, as they like to us…”
http://theothermccain.com/2010/12/14/breaking-gunman-opens-fire-during-school-board-meeting-in-florida/
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 10:51pmVery sad. A poor, misguided soul trying to take out his petty anger on people who really have no power.
This class-warfare, dialectical materialism s#!t comes straight out of hell.
Report Post »davuf
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:07pmWow another violent left wing crazy. Who didn’t see that one coming?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 8:48pmA fake gun? What a fool. Stupid and sad.
Report Post »davuf
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:05pmWould it have been better if it was a real gun? Thank god for small blessings. He’s still a tool though.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 8:45pmThis is exactly the kind of death penalty I’m in favor of … the security dude is a hero.
Report Post »megansmom
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 7:28pmWhy aren’t they doing TSA pat downs or body scans at school board meetings? After all they are terrorist targets and as such such don’t these people deserve to be safe?
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:53pmIt if hadn’t been a movie it would have been something else. Look at all the violence that has happened to people before television. Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp. Some people are just turned to violence. They have no excuse so they make one up. Oh, the war made me do it. My wife made me do it. A movie made me do it. It’s just and excuse that idiotic people use to justify their actions. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. You all have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Report Post »moonfish
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:49pmOnly thing more dangerous than a union teacher is a fired union teacher… And a hubby that lost his meal ticket.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:48pmWelcome to the new land of barry boy!
Report Post »Diana
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 10:20pmOh this is exactly what Barry wants, so he can disarm us all…and then go for the kill
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:46pmone more reason I am getting a carry permit
Report Post »Dweeby_EE
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:42pmSee how Hollywood influences unstable people?
This has got to be Hollywood’s fault, right? I mean for goodness sake… a V with a CIRCLE??!? Taken right out of the movie!
Did he have a Guy Fawkes mask? Or maybe his own little mustache and goatee?
I say we ban all violent movies. Can’t you people see what happens when these irresponsible directors glorify blood guts and gore?
Nothing less than G rated movies!! That’s what we need! “Sponge Bob The Motion Picture Rev. 33: Another incident at Bikini Bottom! Where’s the Top!?!”
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 7:11pmDoes that mean no more Debbie does Wichita movies? Shucks life just gets harder and harder! Ha!
Report Post »civilunrestnow
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:32pmImagine if this had happened in some liberal state where concealed carry was illegal and this clown had a real weapon. I live in Md where there is no concealed carry. The liberal politicians refuse to allow it because they are afraid that the good upstanding people in the state would eventually turn on them and their socialist agenda.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:31pmCheck out donsmithshow.com. The best (ok second best) conservative site on the web.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 6:26pmV for vendeta? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 8:29pmAs our government continues to increase the pressure on us by taxing us, taking our rights away, causing our jobs to evaporate and constantly finding new ways to micromanage ever aspect of our lives, the number of people out there who lose their grip on reality will continue to grow. Expect more of this in the near future…..much much more.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 8:56pmTXPILOT – Beck has seen this moment coming and he has told us, as difficult as that must be with one of his foresight. It is not a beautiful future at least in the short term. But we can regain our country if only we are brave and bold in the way we’ve learned from our fathers and forefathers. Death before dishonor or tyranny!
I beseech ye of strong faith, ye who are willing to accept the truth about the Revolution foretold by the one who leads us in this fateful hour: rise up, destroy those who lead us to slavery and death! We can put aside our petty differences, rise as one, and take back this country! Or we can be as the passive Jews in Nazi Germany and be lead, once we are too weakened to give defence, into our graves.
The choice is yours. The hour is nigh. The moment is upon us. If you heed the warnings of Glenn Beck, and prepare yourself to defend our great nation, we can prevail. Thank you and God Bless.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 10:41pmJZS, oh harharhar. You must get a real kick out of that. Actually, your post is so manifestly stupid as to be funny.
Report Post »davuf
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:03pmAre we back in the days of yore?
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 11:57pmI hated that movie actually. I won’;t be shedding a tear for this guy or the board members. So his wife lost a job. Boo Hoo. Just shows you what liberals do when they feel they have been wronged. His wife is/was a good union member i’m sure so i can guess the mindset. I’m sure he felt that she was owed the job simply because she went to school for the training. So he thought how dare they…. Well, they cut jobs and not their own bloated salaries. There will be many more of these incidents coming their way when the hard cutting really starts. Theirs will never get cut, just the members. Always remember that when the town goes to hell in a hand basket for the little guys the union bosses always leave town in a Lexus with a cigar in one hand and a wad of your cash in their immune pension fund. This guy simply figured it out before a lot of others. I’m sure they will spin him into a tea party type before we can take a deep breath.
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