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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Team Elyse Gators vs. Gators: SUNDAY EDITION out to help Spring Game others. 3A ends in a tie. 1B Snakes, skunks, springs was on display for several hundred said Valerie Thomas, Four Rivers 700 turn out for people who ventured to the park to Audubon president. “I don’t think annual eco-fest learn about their environment and that some of the people that came ways to protect it. out have ever been here before so to at Alligator Lake. According to festival organizers, them it’s a discovery.” close to 700 people attended the Fifth An albino skunk, a tortoise, the Annual Alligator Lake Spring Festival, Suwannee cooter and corn snakes were By TONY BRITT held at the park Saturday. some of the captive animals on site. [email protected] “The Alligator Lake Spring Festival Organized tours along the lake’s dike TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter is always held to get people out- allowed festival-goers to see other ani- Makeila Reis holds Serabi, a yellow rat snake, as Ichetucknee The Alligator Lake Public doors to learn a little bit about our mals such as insects, birds, alligators, Springs State Park Services specialist Sam Cole holds Recreation Area has its own diverse natural place here and see Alligator Moufasa, a gray rat snake, during the Alligator Lake Spring ecosystem. Saturday that ecosystem Lake, which is just a beautiful place,” ALLIGATOR continued on 6A Festival Saturday. Casket MOTHER OF 3 MURDERED surfaces at local A family torn apart cemetery Last week’s rain meant trouble at Garden of Rest. By STEVEN RICHMOND [email protected] Visitors to a local cem- etery made a bonechilling discovery Tuesday — a casket had risen to the sur- Photos by PATRICK SCOTT/Special to the Reporter face. Law enforcement officers from LCPD, CCSO, and FDLE search Pleasant Point Apartments at the corner of HWY 441 N and County Road 25A for Lake City Director of Carlis Lindsey III, wanted in connection with a homicide that occurred shortly after midnight Friday. The suspect remained at large at press time. Growth Management Robert Hathcox said the torrential rain earlier last week was the culprit behind An outpouring of grief for victim. the eerie event at Garden of Rest Cemetery on Lake By STEVEN RICHMOND Jeffery Road. [email protected] “They have a vault that has been placed in the A close-knit family in Cedar ground,” Hathcox said. Park Apartments struggled to “Because all the water and find words to explain a sober- rain got to it, the casket ing truth — domestic violence floated to the surface. The kills. seal of the tomb came up Not only did a man with a about two inches [and knife take the life of Chaquasha Two FDLE agents and LCPD exposed the casket], but Shawntey Aviger, but also Investigator David Greer investigate a it never came out of the ruined the fatal stabbing that occurred at about tomb.” lives of three 12:20 a.m. Friday at NE Morgan Street. Hathcox said no one in his children who department, including veter- will never see ans of 30-plus years, have their mother again. Search for GRAVE continued on 6A “I haven’t been to sleep,” suspect Aviger said Sierra STEVEN RICHMOND/Lake City Reporter Caldwell, who Sierra Caldwell, sister of Chaquasha Shawntey Aviger, looks at heard the news at 2:00 a.m. clothes clothing Aviger had bought for her children continues LC man Friday as she was getting into bed after a full day’s work. boy — both of whom were CALL FOR HELP By STEVEN RICHMOND As she sat on her late sister’s witness to their mother’s strug- [email protected] booked bed, staring at a wall-mounted gles with Lindsey. n If you or someone you rack with more clothes for chil- “Her children were her life,” know is the victim of Police continue for child dren than adults, she tried to Caldwell said. “That’s what she domestic violence, call a statewide search explain the dynamic between lived for...One day we’ll have to Another Way Domestic for a man suspected Aviger and sit and tell Cali of stabbing a Lake porn Carlis Lindsey about this.” Violence and Rape Crisis City woman to death III, the man ‘Her children were Aviger’s Center’s 24-hour hotline Friday morning police say took family remem- at 1-866-875-7983. then delivering their her life. her life. That’s bered her as infant son to rela- Three-month Lindsey “It was a what she lived for... an “exceptional assaulted her with make- tives for safekeep- investigation domestic vio- mother with a shift weapons and even made ing, LCPD reports. led to arrest. lence relation- big heart,” one threats to kill her in the past, INSIDE Police said Carlis One day we’ll have n ship,” Caldwell who made sure the reports say. Possible Lindsey III, 31, of From staff reports said. “She to sit and tell Cali her children “He needs to be put away link to Live 375 NW Bascom Oak bank couldn’t take it. about this.’ would never to the death,” said Christine Norris Dr., was at A three-month probe into She was tired have to go with- Dortly, a close family friend. robberies? large, armed and — Sierra Caldwell, See 6A. child pornography led to of it and want- sister of the victim out. “You don’t do someone like dangerous follow- the arrest ed to leave... “She was sup- that. He needs the chair, he ing the fatal stabbing of 36-year- of a Lake [Friday morn- posed to take took a life.” old Chaquasha Shawntey Aviger City man, ing] she went to tell him, ‘I’m the kids to Wet ‘n Wild today,” According to Florida around 12:20 a.m. Friday, according according sorry, I’m taking my children Marlenia Brown, Aviger’s aunt, Department of Corrections to police. to sheriff’s and leaving.’” said Friday. records, Lindsey was sen- Following a 9-1-1 call from an officials. Caldwell described her Aviger and Lindsey had a tenced to four years in prison anonymous male, police arrived at Adam sister as tired, mentally and history of domestic violence — in 2006 for aggravated battery the corner of NE Jackson Ave. and Quinn physically, following a cesar- LCPD reported at least 11 dif- on a pregnant woman, felony NE Morgan St. to find Aviger “lay- Chapital Chapital, ian-section birth of her third ferent incidents between them battery, aggravated assault and ing in the middle of the road — 24, of 1647 SW Camellia child, Cali Monae, three weeks in the past two years. false imprisonment. blood everywhere,” according to Lane, was jailed Friday, before Lindsey allegedly took During that time, Lindsey Shortly after his release LCPD Public Information Officer according to CCSO. He her life. kicked in Aviger’s door, beat in 2009, he was sentenced to Craig Strickland. She was also mother to a her several times (some during CHAPITAL continued on 6A 6-year-old girl and 13-year-old pregnancy), stole her money, GRIEVING continued on 6A SEARCH continued on 6A Vol. 140, No. 50 Pictures . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER COMING UP SPORTS (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Wellborn seeks Indians face SUBSCRIBE TO Obituaries . 5A THE REPORTER: 83 61 Puzzles . 2B Blueberry parade tough district Voice: 755-5445 participants, 2A. road, 1B. Fax: 752-9400 Morning fog, 8A Advice & Comics . 3D 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 AROUND FLORIDA Family of man who died in custody sues Key West KEY WEST together to make get-well cards thing to everybody,” Groveland disregarding” department policies. Mulberry City Hall. he family of a Michigan for the children injured in a paramedic Josh Walsh said. West Palm Beach city spokes- Ferguson was one of three man who died at a hospi- crash at a daycare center that man Eliot Cohen says local offi- people killed in the April 2 T tal while in police custody killed a 4-year-old girl. Ex-officer faces cials have cooperated with the shooting spree. He died while has sued the city of Key West in Winter Park community mem- federal investigation. barricading a door, keeping the federal court, claiming excessive bers also built a memorial Friday drug charges gunman from pushing into a force killed the unarmed man outside the KinderCare build- WEST PALM BEACH — A Funeral held for room where others could have and that officers conspired to ing. The daycare center’s staff former South Florida police been killed. cover up the death. reopened with bright balloons officer faces federal charges for Fort Hood soldier The lawsuit filed Friday to greet children who wanted allegedly selling prescription LAKELAND — A soldier Brothers imprisoned says Charles Eimers died “in a to reunite with their friends and drugs while on duty. killed in shootings at Fort Hood, horrifying way” and names 12 teachers who had been inside The U.S. Attorney’s Office Texas, earlier this month is for $1.6M tax fraud officers connected to the case. A when the crash happened. said Friday that Dewitt being remembered at private MIAMI — Two South Florida state investigation into Eimers’ The crash Wednesday killed McDonald of Wellington faces services in central Florida. brothers will be doing federal Dec. 4 death is pending, and the 4-year-old Lily Quintus, who was one felony count of carrying a The Ledger reports that an prison time for a scheme that medical examiner’s final autopsy sitting in a classroom awaiting firearm during and in relation honor guard joined the family of netted them $1.6 million in fraud- report has not been released.