Marshals Nab Suspect in Store Owner's Killing
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1A WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 & 31, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Marshals nab suspect in store owner’s killing Aug. 30 Grandison captured Ernest Larr y Beverage on Duval Street only to Tailgate party Grandison, formerly find the suspects had fled. Patel, the Credit The Columbia High without resistance of 864 NW Thetis store owner, had been shot. School tailgate party spon- Place, was one of two According to reports, witnesses sored by Rountree Moore in Harvey, La., home. suspects accused said Grandison, the alleged gun- where Ford that was scheduled for of the April, 2012 man, forced Patel’s wife, Daxa Patel, Aug. 23 was postponed due By STEVEN RICHMOND armed robbery and behind the counter to get money. to rain. It will be held this [email protected] fatal shooting of Rajni Grandison Rajni Patel was shot as he came out it’s due, Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Patel, police said. of a utility room closet, police said. the CHS stadium. U.S. Marshals arrested a man in According to the Lake City Police Police say Grandison’s son-in- says S.A. Hot dogs, hamburgers Louisiana suspected of first-degree Department, around 1:36 p.m. Friday, law and alleged accomplice, James and cold drinks will be murder and armed robbery in Lake April 27, 2012, police responded to held. There will be raffle City last year. an armed robbery at A&M Discount GRANDISON continued on 3A See story, Page 3A. drawings for prizes, and the “Punt for a Pickup” event, which will give one very lucky fan the opportunity to win a brand new Ford F- Gator 150. Proceeds will be donat- 2 convicted of carjacking ed to the CHS Quarterback Club. bites Classic cars A classic car cruise-in man is held each Friday from 5:30 to about 8 p.m. at the Hardee’s restaurant on U.S. 90 West at Bascom Norris at lake Drive. All car enthusiasts are welcome. Worker building For more information, dock attacked, call Graham White at (919) undergoes surgery. 368-5893 Community theater By TONY BRITT High Springs Community [email protected] Theater will present A. R. Gurney’s endearing com- A Keystone Heights man edy “Love Letters.” was bitten by an 8-foot alliga- The play chronicles tor while working on a Lake the lifelong relation- Jeffery dock Thursday after- ship between Andrew noon. Makepeace Ladd and James Tennant, 44, was Melissa Gardner in read- in surgery around 7:30 p.m. ings from their letters to Thursday at a Gainesville each other. As the actors FILE hospital following the attack, read the letters aloud, what ABOVE: Lake City Police Chief Argatha Gilmore (right) speaks to Lt. Clint VanBennekom at the scene of a shoot- which occurred around 3 is created is an evocative, ing and carjacking on July 27, 2012. BELOW: La’Quanza Gee (left), of Live Oak, sits with his attorney, Baya GATOR continued on 3A touching, frequently funny Harrison, during the trial that resulted in him and another man being convicted of armed robbery and carjacking. but always telling pair of character studies. What is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actu- Both could be sentenced to life State warns ally written. Investigators determined that the Show times are Friday Murder charges still occupants, a man and his neph- of sewage in and Saturday at 8 p.m. and pending from 2012 ew, did not have any connection Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are to the night’s events. Suwannee available at The Framery drug-related robbery. Gee’s defense attorney Baya of Lake City (386) 754- Harrison made closing argu- By AMANDA WILLIAMSON 2780, online at www.high- By STEVEN RICHMOND ments summarizing why the jury [email protected] springscommunitytheater. [email protected] could not prove beyond reason- com and at the door. able doubt the drug trafficking Weekend travelers heading Two men suspected of mur- charge. to the Suwannee River should der were acquitted on drug traf- “Investigators were not able take caution when in contact Aug. 31 ficking charges but convicted of to find discernible fingerprints with the water after a Valdosta Farmers market moves armed carjacking at a Columbia on the bag of cocaine,” Harrison wastewater treatment plant The Lake DeSoto Farmers County courtroom Thursday. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter said. He also referred to mechani- spilled partially treated sew- Market will be temporar- La’Quanza D. Gee, of Live cal errors with LCPD’s scales age into a connecting river, ily relocated to the parking Oak, and Leonard S. Goodman, Lake City on July 27, 2012, under which put the trafficking charge says a press release issued lot at the corner of Marion of Jacksonville, were found guilty the pretense of a drug deal involv- into question. by the Florida Department of Avenue and Duval Street of armed robbery during a drug ing half a pound of cocaine only According to the prosecution, Health Wednesday. adjacent to Olustee Park in deal turned robbery, according to to rob and murder Williams, the cocaine was divided into Heavy rains, along with downtown Lake City from 9 State Attorney Jeff Seigmeister. authorities said. seven bags, each containing an flooding of the Little and a.m. to 1 p.m. Gee and Goodman visited As the duo fled, they carjacked Carlos Lamar Williams, 31, in an occupied vehicle at gunpoint. CONVICTED continued on 5A SEWAGE continued on 3A Back-to-school event Wellborn United Methodist Church will welcome children back to ‘Punt for a Pickup’ tonight at Columbia High game school with a free, special event for children entering Lucky CHS fans at Tiger Stadium and punt first through fifth grades. a football 35 yards into the The “back to school bash” have chance to back of a pickup. will offer a day of fun and win Ford truck. If the fan can punt the games, lunch and a visit ball in the air into the from “a special guest.” From staff reports truck bed and the ball There will be something stays in, that lucky fan for adults as well. The event Fans attending the wins the 2013 Ford F-150 will begin at 10 a.m. with Columbia High School pickup. Contestants must check-in and snacks. There Tigers home football be 18 years old and other will be a number of inside games this season will restrictions apply. games for children in the have the chance to win a “Everybody is talking Fellowship Hall, followed new truck. about this contest,” said by a sing-along, art and The Lake City Reporter’s Lake City Reporter pub- drawing, and more. Punt for a Pickup contest lisher Todd Wilson. “You For information, con- will be conducted at half- want a new Ford F-150? tact the Rev. Dr. Everett L. time of each Tigers home Come to the Columbia Parker at (386) 754-8524 or game this season. One High home football games AMANDA WILLIAMSON/Lake City Reporter (386) 688-1358. The church lucky fan who attends the and you may get a chance Lake City Reporter publisher Todd Wilson (left) and advertising director Theresa Westberry is on County Road 137, just game will be selected ran- show off the 2013 Ford F-150 truck that may be given away as part of the Reporter’s ‘Punt north of the railroad. domly to come on the field TRUCK continued on 3A for a Pickup’ promotion. Vol. 139, No. 153 People................. 2A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 Opinion ............... 4A 92 72 Obituaries ............. 5A PEOPLE SUNDAY SUBSCRIBE TO T-Storm Chance THE REPORTER: Comics ............... 4-5B Bookbags Local news Voice: 755-5445 Advice & Puzzles ....... 4-5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A donated. roundup 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 & 31, 2013 Celebrity Birthdays Thursday: Thursday: n Actor Bill Daily is 86. n Country singer Sherrie Afternoon: 6-5-7 Afternoon: 0-2-4-2 Wednesday: n Actress Elizabeth Ashley Austin is 42. 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