A man named Clay Duke shot and killed himself during a school board meeting and after shooting at several school board members.
Luckily the only person injured was Clay Duke, and after watching the video you will agree that it is nothing short of a miracle.
This is what went down.
Clay Duke was upset about his wife who had recently lost her job with the school. He spray painted a “V” on he wall (V for Vendetta, anyone?) and expressed his anger regarding her dismissal. School superintendent Bill Husfelt tried to talk Clay Duke out of shooting anyone and asked that he release the rest of the Florida school board staff. Duke refused, but he did ask that any ladies leave. There was only one, Ginger Littleton.
As you can see in the above video, Clay Duke then opens fire on Husfelt and other male school board members. It’s quite horrifying to watch the shootings. Then you see Duke clutch his back as a school board security guard shoots him. Duke falls to the ground and later shoots, and kills, himself.
Shown in the video below is the female school board member, Ginger Littleton, who, at one point, came from behind Clay Duke and swung her purse at the gun in his hand. She failed, but somehow lived to tell about it.
She describes the horrifying ordeal: “He had the gun down to his right side. I thought, my choices are to walk away. I had no doubt he was going to kill everyone sitting in those chairs. Can I walk away and live with myself or do I have to do something that may turn out to be very stupid.”
“It was the only weapon I had. Other than that, I think we had pencils. We tried to dislodge the gun from him. He did not shoot. He could have. I was lying at his feet. At that point, I took his advice trying to smarten up a little bit and got out there as quickly as possible, fully understanding that my attempt had failed, and that it might result in what could have been a massacre.”
Thank God all the Florida school board members lived through such a traumatic, hellish moment. And really, you have to feel for Clay Duke’s wife as well.
Clay Duke’s Facebook account detailed a manifesto of violence and a vendetta with today’s Panama City shooting. Clay Duke, the shooter at the Florida School Board hearing today, took to the podium during the Tuesday hearing. Tonight he’s dead.
The School Board had opened the hearing to public issues. When it was Duke’s turn, he pulled out a sprain can and plastered the wall of the chambers with his Facebook picture – a red V for Vendetta inside a circle. The video of the terror was played live by a local news station.
“Everyone body in this room” said Clay Duke while spraying the V ” … behind that counter .. hit the road. Leave.”
At that point the tape captures audio of attendants rushing out of the chamber. Duke pulls out his weapon and points it at women in the chamber stating “You may leave, YOU may leave.” The women then flee. “Six men stay. Everyone else leaves” he adds.
Later in the tape, one woman named “Ginger” takes her handbag and from behind tries to knock out the roughly 6’ 220 lb man. She collapses and cries. A city official responds, “Ginger? Ginger, please no.”
“Please, talk to us, if I can get your wife a job somewhere else, I would be glad to that” said one member, face to face with the Duke later during the hostage standoff. Another member asked “what [did your wife] do, because very honestly I don’t know who you are talking about.” “She was fired” exclaimed Duke. “I understand that, but what did she do?” responded the member.
One frustrated member said later “If you are going to kill yourself or kill us, at least tell us what is going on” adding that he had no idea what the hostage situation was about; “honestly I don’t know what your wife did or who she is.”
On his Facebook, Duke called government an evil monster. Duke wrote on Facebook that he had been poor his own life. He wrote that the government “economically enslaves 95%” of Americas.
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