A3 + PLUS >> Bar Rescue gets thumbs up from Phish Tales, Story below LOCAL wGOLF STEM camp Strong finish for at Summers Barber at Travelers See Page 2A See Page 1B TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM CITY MANAGER RACE ENDS ABRUPTLY 3A downtown landscape changing Gun-show accident claims 1 at fairgrounds Jax man killed by own shotgun while unloading gear for weekend show. By CARL MCKINNEY
[email protected] A double-barrel shotgun discharged by accident outside a local gun show Friday afternoon, killing a Jacksonville man, dep- uties say. Ronald Mark Morrison, 60, was hold- ing a black suitcase and telling a witness to call 911 after a loud bang resonated through the county fairgrounds, accord- ing to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office report. Morrison, a vendor at the Saturday - ROBERT BRIDGES/Lake City Reporter Sunday event, dropped the bag and fell to the ground, face down. ABOVE: Demolition began on a two story Witnesses flipped him over and saw brick building in downtown Lake City on blood coming from a hole in his chest. Sunday. The project manager, Stephen Deputies responded at 1:48 p.m., as Roberts, said 154 NE Veterans St. was the Morrison clung to life. future site for additional parking to access Medical units transported him to an businesses and restaurants nearby. The city area hospital, and he either died there acquired the property in its initial propos- or en route, said CCSO spokesperson als for construction to The Blanche Hotel Murray Smith.