Shooting spree at Florida school board caught on tape
By: Ray Doughty
Updated: December 16, 2010
A Bay City School Board meeting in Panama City, FL was disrupted Tuesday when a man calmly walked to a podium, spray painted a red "V" with a circle around it on a wall, and then turned back and opened fire at school board members. The shots sent people diving for cover, as a security guard ran in and exchanged shots, wounding the gunman, who then killed himself.
The entire incident was caught on video when the gunman, Clay A. Duke,56, confronted the Bay District school board, telling everyone in the room - with the exception of the men on the board – to leave. The video details the conversation between Superintendent Bill Husfelt and Duke, and tries to persuade him to drop the gun.
Before the shooting started, board member Ginger Littleton, who had left the room as ordered, snuck up behind Duke and tries to pummel him with her large, brown purse made of an alligator-like material. She later told the Associated Press she was trying to divert Duke.
Littleton fell to the floor, and an angry Duke pointed the gun to her head and Said, “You stupid b…..,” but he didn’t shoot her, and instead turned back to the board.
The entire incident was caught on video when the gunman, Clay A. Duke,56, confronted the Bay District school board, telling everyone in the room - with the exception of the men on the board – to leave. The video details the conversation between Superintendent Bill Husfelt and Duke, and tries to persuade him to drop the gun.
Before the shooting started, board member Ginger Littleton, who had left the room as ordered, snuck up behind Duke and tries to pummel him with her large, brown purse made of an alligator-like material. She later told the Associated Press she was trying to divert Duke.
Littleton fell to the floor, and an angry Duke pointed the gun to her head and Said, “You stupid b…..,” but he didn’t shoot her, and instead turned back to the board.
