Officer Fired in Wake of Crash
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1A SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Allen feels good Foster kids and SUNDAY EDITION about Tigers father figures on in 2nd year. 1B Father’s Day. 1D Officer Family ties link fired in wake of murder suspects crash 87-year-old woman never fully recovered Accused triggerman is following accident. By TONY BRITT father-in-law of alleged [email protected] accomplice in robbery. Lake City Police Department officer David Broom was fired By TONY BRITT Sheena Grandison, a 2007 grad- Friday in the wake of an on-duty [email protected] uate of Columbia High School, traffic accident last year. said her family has been treated According to information The accused triggerman in a unfairly during the investigation. released by LCPD late Friday, convenience store robbery and “Everyone is going through Broom was terminated because shooting is the father-in-law of his changes because of this,” she his actions leading up to the crash alleged accomplice, according to said. “People violated state law and department marriage records from Franklin have had to policy. County, Ohio. The alleged kill- move, people Broom and local business- er, Larry Ernest Grandison, 42, have shut their The suspect in the killing of storeowner Rajni Patel, believed by police woman Ruby Earline Parker were of Lake City, remains at large. b u s i n e s s e s to be Larry Ernest Grandison, approaches the front counter of A&M injured when their vehicles col- His son-in- down and peo- Beverages the afternoon of April 27. lided at the intersection of Sisters law, James ple’s names Welcome Road and U.S. Highway L e o n a r d have been slan- 90 on Sept. 6. The 87-year-old Johnson, 23, dered.” Parker remained hospitalized or Lake City, She contin- in a rehabilitation center until her was appre- ued, “The pub- Grandison death five months later. h e n d e d lic is horrible in It was determined through May 19 in the things they crash data and information Jacksonville. have said and recorded on Broom’s Event Data According Patel the way they Collector, that he was driving 76 to police, Grandison shot and have treated miles per hour, records show. He killed store owner Rajni Patel dur- me. There is no was not en route to an emergency ing the April 27 robbery of A&M evidence....” call and did not have emergency Discount Beverages on Duval Regardess, lights or siren activated, Florida Street. Johnson, Grandison’s she expressed Highway Patrol reports said. Leonard alleged accomplice, took money sympathy for The speed limit on U.S. from behind the counter but did the Patel fam- Highway 90 in Lake City is 45 not fire a weapon, police said. ily. mph. Broom’s speed was deter- He faces charges including felony A woman identifying herself mined by FHP to be a contribut- murder. as Jo Ellen Poindexter Roberts, ing factor in the crash. Johnson married Grandison’s Johnson’s mother, called the Lake Broom’s driver’s license was daughter, Sheena Marie City Reporter from Ohio to defend suspended for three months as a Grandison, 22, in Ohio on Sept. Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter 19, 2011, records show. FAMILY continued on 3A A customer walks into the A&M Discount Beverage store Friday. CRASH continued on 3A County clerk could avoid layoffs if plan OK’d even though the clerks are “Obviously it would Cason said the local Cason said the money Lawmakers may allow elected officials. This year impact us in a positive man- clerk’s office is broken up would prevent the clerks’ statewide budget ner because currently we’re into two divisions — courts Columbia County Clerk of counties to keep money was set to be cut by $30 scheduled to experience and non-courts. Non-courts Courts office from having million. The cuts were some layoffs and shifting duties include recording to lay off employees and collected for fines, fees. made during the last week of folks and I would cer- of public documents, pay- shifting more people from of the legislative session tainly welcome being able ing the county’s bills and the court side. By TONY BRITT Florida Legislature allow- and could have resulted in to stay where I am as far making investments. The A spokesman for Gov. [email protected] ing court clerks to use up to 900 employees los- as the budget goes,” said courts side has administra- Rick Scott reportedly court fees and fine pay- ing their jobs statewide. Columbia County Clerk of tive duties of keeping court said that the governor The Columbia County ments for their budgets is In some counties, branch Court P. DeWitt. records and court evidence has already signed off on Clerk of Courts office may approved. offices were scheduled In March, Cason said the storage. the proposal because the be able to avoid laying off Florida lawmakers have to be closed as well and local clerk’s office could The budget cuts would money would come from some of its employees if a controlled the overall bud- employees could have had lose 2.5 full-time positions have impacted the court $29.5 million plan by the get of the clerks since 2009, their hours reduced. as a result of budget cuts. side. CLERK continued on 3A Obama, world want bold signs from Europe at G-20 By BEN FELLER else. ing for signs of progress and AP White House Correspondent A looming, perilous Greek urgency. election and Europe's inter- That clearly is the case for CHICAGO — With global nal politics are controlling the Obama, locked in a tight elec- anxiety rising, President debate. tion that may be decided sin- Barack Obama is searching Given the teetering global glehandedly by whether U.S. for bolder, swifter signals from economy and the breadth of job growth sinks or climbs over Europe that it will contain its leaders about to gather in the the next five months. financial mess and keep it from coastal resort of Los Cabos, the While economic challenge torpedoing the U.S. economy Group of 20 summit meeting will dominate the summit, the and his re-election chances carries the weight of expecta- agenda runs deeper. Brownfield JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter along with it. tions it is not likely to meet. In talks on the sidelines, Yet as he prepares for sum- Most of its members are not Obama will confront the blood- An abandoned gas station, located on U.S. Highway 441 just north of Interstate mit talks beginning Monday in part of Europe and they have shed in Syria and the nuclear 10, sits on land that has a brownfield designation. Much of downtown Lake City Mexico with the other world no power to drive how the threat in Iran. He will meet and areas north of downtown are also classified as brownfields. For more on the leaders, Obama is down to the continent manages its crisis, designation and what it means to the local community, see Page 1C. power of persuasion and little although do they come look- SUMMIT continued on 6A Vol. 138, No. 103 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C5A 9189 6463 Obituaries . 5A PEOPLE TUESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO T-StormMostly ChanceSunny Obituaries . 6A THE REPORTER: Advice.Advice & . .Comics . .. 5D8B Seger makes City council Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A8A Puzzles . 2B Hall of Fame. coverage. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012 Page Editor: Rick Burnham, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Saturday: Saturday: 22=26-37-42 13 10-21-23-28-36 Afternoon: 0-1-4 Afternoon: 0-7-5-6 N/A N/A Evening: 4-7-3 Evening: 0-9-5-6 AROUND FLORIDA School principal arrested on drug charges ST. CLOUD — Investigators say a parking lot of a Tampa restaurant. in South Florida have been halted. Florida elementary school principal pro- Miami-Dade County The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s U.S. Immigration and Customs vided an undercover agent with drugs at MIAMI — Fire officials report three Office reports that 38-year-old Guillermo Enforcement issued a statement Friday his home. people were struck by lightning during a Garcia and 33-year-old Okariny Diaz had saying that the agency has reevaluated Deputies with the Osceola County storm in Miami-Dade County. met outside the Village Inn Friday so its need for an additional detention Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says three Garcia could turn his 8-year-old son over center in South Florida, and it will no Partin Settlement Elementary School men were struck by lightning Friday to the boy’s mother. Garcia and the boy longer pursue a facility in Southwest Principal David Groover with multiple while working on a pickup truck. had driven up from Broward County that Ranches. The statement left open the drug charges Friday. One of the men went into cardiac morning. possibility for another facility in the Authorities say Grover provided an arrest but was revived and taken to Ryder Witnesses say the two parents got region. undercover agent with methamphetamine Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial into an argument, which led to Garcia The announcement comes after near- and GHB, also known as liquid ecstasy. Hospital. A second man was also hospital- shooting Diaz several times and then ly a year opposition from local residents Investigators report they also found mari- ized for burns.