Fla. school board shooter had turbulent life

School Board Shooter Led Troubled Life
Like this Story? Share it: Members of a School District board in Panama City, Fla. feel lucky to be alive after an ex-con opened fire at a routine meeting. Mark Strassmann reports on the latest details of the shooting. Caught on Tape: A gunman fired point-blank at school Board Members in Panama City, Fla. before he fatally shot himself. Mark Strassmann reports. Harry Smith interviews Panama City School Board shooting survivors, including superintendent Bill Husfelt, and Ginger Littleton, the wom...

Florida School Board Shooter Was a Troubled, Broke Ex-Con With Bi-Polar Disorder, Interested in Anarchy
Wife of Clay Duke says he was an excellent marksman that probably missed shooting the Board Members on purpose. Police say that in his mobile home in the woods, they found the date 'December 14' circled on the calender Associated Press PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Clay Duke was a troubled, broke ex-con with Bipolar Disorder, an interest in anarchy, a wife whose Unemployment Benefits had run out and frustrations that reached their boiling point on a day circled on his calendar at home. The burly 5...

Fla. school board gunman dead by end of 911 call
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A school official calmly talked a Florida 911 operator through a gunman holding school Board Members hostage, exchanging fire with a Security Guard and then taking his own life. Nancy Boyd, assistant superintendent of Bay County schools, had fled the meeting room where the ordeal unfolded Tuesday to call authorities. Her roughly six-minute call was released Wednesday. Boyd described what she saw on a video feed of the meeting room, as Clay Duke fired at several boa...

Video: Ex-con paints V for Vendetta symbol on wall, opens fire on Fla. school board
Stumble This! Minutes earlier, the room had been filled with students accepting awards, but no one was hurt except the gunman, who shot himself Tuesday after exchanging fire with a Security Guard, Police said. "It could have been a monumental tragedy," Bay District Schools Superintendent Bill Husfelt said. "God was standing in front of me and I will go to my grave believing that." Video of meeting shows 56-year-old Clay A. Duke rising from his seat, spray-painting a red V on the wall, then wavi...

Cops: Man fires at Fla. school board; kills self
This photo provided by the Florida Dept. of Corrections shows Clay Duke.... PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A gunman calmly walked up to a podium, spray painted a red "V" with a circle around it on a wall and opened fire at school Board Members Tuesday, sending people scrambling and diving for cover. A Security Guard soon ran in, exchanged shots with and wounded the man who then killed himself, Police said. No one else was injured. In video of portions of the clash that lasted several minutes, the gun...

Shooting at Fla. School Board Meeting Could Have Been A Monumental Tragedy
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Panama City, Fla. (AP) - A gunman who fired point-blank at school Board Members before fatally shooting himself had for much of the meeting sat with the rest of the audience, listening to routine business. As the board was in the midst of a discussion Tuesday, Clay A. Duke walked to the front of the room, spray painted a red "V" with a circle around it on the white wall, then turned and waved a Handgun. He calmly ordered everyone to "h...

Client Number Nine: Doesnt That Florida School Board Shooting Mean That We Should Have More Gun Control?
Well, I predicted it yesterday, didn’t I?  Here’s the video. Of course, the answer is no.  The fact is this guy was not supposed to have a gun in the first place.  He was a convicted felon.  The synopsis of that previous crime was this: In October 1999, Duke threatened to kill a Florida woman, and when she attempted to flee, he used a Handgun to “shoot out the Victim’s rear tire of the vehicle that she was operating.” Duke, wearing a bulletproof ...

Florida school board members recount meeting horror
(CNN) -- It was a typical School Board meeting, with members discussing typical school issues. And then, all of a sudden, it was anything but. "We're at a board meeting, and we're talking about technology and head lice, and next thing we know, this guy's got a gun in our face," Bill Husfelt, superintendent of Bay District Schools in Panama City, Florida, said Wednesday. Clay Duke, 56, sat quietly through the meeting until it was time for citizens to bring up issues. Then he approached ...

Update: Gunman Killed After Opening Fire on Fla. School Board
A gunman was killed today by a security officer after opening fire on a Florida School Board meeting, local media report. The Bay District School Board meeting was interrupted by a man with a gun, who walked up to the podium, pulled out a can of red spray pain and painted a larged letter "V" with a circle around it, reports ABC News affilaite WMBB-TV. Soon after, he pulled out a gun. School Board Member Ginger Littleton struck the gunman with her purse. The shooter pushed her to the ground an...

Fla. Shooting Hero: I Was Just Doing My Job
Like this Story? Share it: Mike Jones is the Security Guard who stopped gunman Clay Duke in his tracks at a School Board meeting in Florida. He said was just doing his job when he put himself in the line of fire. As Mark Strassmann reports, the man who saved so many lives wasn't even supposed to be at work that day. Katie Couric speaks with Mike Jones, the Security Guard who wounded the Panama City gunman who was threatening School District Board Members. Katie Couric interviews Florida school b...

Florida Guard: "I'm Not A Hero"
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS/AP) Mike Jones, the Security Guard who shot Clay Duke after he opened fire at school Board Members before fatally shooting himself, told reporters Thursday that he is no hero. PICTURES: Fla. School Board Shooting "I'm not a hero, folks. I've just done my job," Jones said at a a Press Conference. Jones was not in the room when Duke interrupted the meeting and painted a "V" inside a circle on the wall. He said he received a call on his cell phone that there was an armed man...

Video Captures Man Confronting School Board Before Shooting
WMBB Video of an armed man in Florida taking over a School Board meeting and firing shots. (Note: the shots fired in this portion of the video did not injure anyone, but the gunman was later shot.) With news cameras rolling, a 56-year-old gunman entered a School Board meeting in Florida on Tuesday and took several members of the board hostage, then fatally shot himself during a shootout with a Security Guard. The episode was captured on video and broadcast on WMBB.com News 13 in Panama City, w...

(VIDEO) Clay Duke, Panama City Florida School Board Shooting
by the Left Coast Rebel This is incredible, I can't believe how brave these school Board Members were when the gunman - Clay Duke - started threatening them with a gun and followed through on the threat. Can you believe that a woman named Ginger Littleton even swung her purse at him?: Washington Post: A School Board meeting went from discussing head lice to members pleading for their life Tuesday in Florida when an ex-convict, Clay Duke, interrupted the Bay District School Board meeting, brand...

V for Vendetta: ex-convict opens fire on school board after wife loses job
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. Police say the ex-convict who held a US School Board at gunpoint and then began randomly firing, had been planning the attack for some time. An ex-convict who calmly held an American School Board at gunpoint and then began randomly firing had circled the date on a calendar found in his mobile ...

School guard who shot gunman: I thought I was too late
A security officer who wounded a gunman holding six Florida school officials hostage this week says he thought he intervened too late to save the district superintendent, who he thought had been killed moments beforehand. When the gunbattle was over and the gunman had fatally shot himself, Mike Jones, chief of security for Bay District Schools in Panama City, was in for a surprise, he said Thursday. "The next thing (that) happened was the superintendent came across the desk and (showed) tha...

Felon 1, gun laws 0
Every time I read one of these reports, I ask myself why fools want more Gun Laws when cannot enforce the laws already on teh books. He was a convicted felon. He had no business with a gun. Denying good citizens their rights to Bear Arms does not take a single gun from a criminal. Fortunately, the only person killed was the gunman. My heart goes out to his family. The Associated Press report: PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A gunman opened fire at a School Board meeting Tuesday, sending spectators scra...

Fla. Shooter's Wife: He's a Gentle Giant
The wife of the man who took target practice on a School Board in Florida on Tuesday, described her husband as a gentle giant who was pushed over the edge by The Economy and frustrated over her losing her teaching job. "He wanted to get me an answer," Rebecca Duke said of her husband Clay A. Duke. "The economy and the world just got the better of him," Duke said in a rambling Press Conference to talk about the man she loved. Duke calmly walked to a podium, spray painted a red "V'' with a circle ...

Florida school shooter largely influenced by liberal and socialist beliefs
It always annoys me when someone turns out to be a killer or causes a lot of damage that the basic, human reaction is to automatically blame Mental Illness or "craziness." I believe that every human being is ultimately responsible for his or her own actions, so I reject this cop-out completely when it comes to Duke. If you dig into Duke’s background, you will find it impossible to actually separate hardcore liberal and Socialist beliefs from his, in the end, destructive action. His action ...

Video: CNN airs shooting at Florida school board meeting
Mediaite questions both the decision to air the Shooting Spree at a Florida School Board meeting and its reporting of the incident, but haven’t we passed the point of taste several years ago? It’s been at least that long since Cable News networks started breathlessly covering high-speed police chases that have no relation to national news; locally, LA stations carried an infamous bank takeover live while Police Officers got shot more than a decade ago. As it turns out, while CNN wa...

Anti-gay bullying continues to be a contentious issue in Anoka-Hennepin School District
Monday night’s meeting of the Anoka-Hennepin School Board was a contentious one as the issue of Bullying and Suicide in the district again came up. The state’s largest School District opened an investigation into the suicides of nine Students over the past year — some by Students who were allegedly bullied for their Sexual Orientation  — and said that it found no evidence that any of the nine were bullied. Students and parents criticized the district for its statemen...

Hostage-taker killed at school meeting
Published: Dec. 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM PANAMA CITY, Fla., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A gunman took hostages at a School Board meeting in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday afternoon, then was fatally wounded after opening fire, authorities said. No one else was wounded in the incident at a Bay County School Board meeting, Panama City's WJHG-TV reported. "Somebody is going to die today," the 56-year-old man told the Board Members and others in the room. The episode started shortly after 2 p.m. when the man addressed ...

Ginger Littleton Whacked School Board Shooter Clay Duke With Her Purse [VIDEO]
(Dec. 15) -- That's one brave lady. Ginger Littleton showed some guts Tuesday night when she attempted to disarm a gunman who had taken over a Bay City Schools board meeting in Panama City, Fla. The session was disrupted when an armed Clay A. Duke walked in, spray-painted a large, red "V" on the wall (a symbol used in the "V for Vendetta" books and film) and ordered everyone except the men on the board to leave. Littleton, the only woman on the board, left but sneaked back in to swing her purse ...

Fla. shooter's wife says husband 'misunderstood'
This photo provided by the Florida Dept. of Corrections shows Clay Duke.... PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - The wife of the man who held a Florida School Board at gunpoint said Wednesday that her husband was a gentle giant who was pushed over the edge by The Economy and frustrated over her losing her teaching job. "He wanted to get me an answer," Rebecca Duke said a day after her husband, Clay Duke, killed himself. He shot at school Board Members in Panama City, missing some of them by mere inches, be...

North Texans on alert after Florida shool board shooting
On Tuesday, shooter Clay Duke killed himself after threatening Board Members at a Panama City, Fla., meeting. Nobody else was injured, but Duke got off several rounds, firing twice at the superintendent from eight feet away. And minutes before, the room had been full of kids receiving awards. There are more and more people in this nation that are mentally deficient in all things and this shooting in a Panama City, FL School Board is just one more example of an ill populace. Some School District...

Johnston school board member charged with theft
A member of the Johnston School Board was charged with Shoplifting a $38 piece of clothing on Nov. 30. Julie Walter, 48, allegedly committed the theft at Valley West Mall's Von Maur department store, according to a West Des Moines Police Report, after making multiple other purchases totaling more than $500. She pleaded Not Guilty and has a trial date of Jan. 20. ...