STATE | A3 LOCAL | A3 FLORIDA TIME: PRINCIPALS THE EVOLUTION OF SHARE MORE LICENSE PLATES THAN SUCCESS AT TO THE 1990S THEIR SCHOOLS Monday, August 5, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 20 people killed in shooting Gunman kills nine, including Man who at a shopping complex his sister, at an entertainment Saturday in El Paso, Texas district in Dayton, Ohio sent pipe bombs to receive sentence By Larry Neumeister HORROR The Associated Press NEW YORK — The Florida man who created a two-week crisis by mailing 16 packages of inoperative pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN is scheduled to learn his pun- ishment Monday. Defense lawyers urge leni- ency, saying Cesar Sayoc, burdened as a child by severe learning disabilities, was living alone in a cramped van and working as a strip club DJ and a pizza deliveryman in West Palm Beach when he became “increasingly obses- sive, paranoid and angry” and believed enemies of President Donald Trump were trying to hurt him and other Trump supporters. Prosecutors say a life sen- tence is “necessary and appropriate” after Sayoc caused “widespread fear and panic” with his boxes in the days before the 2018 midterm elections. None of the pack- ages exploded. His targets included Hill- Sherie Gramlich reacts during a vigil for victims of a mass Mourners gather at a vigil following a mass shooting, Sunday ary Clinton, former Vice shooting that occurred earlier in the day at a shopping complex in Dayton, Ohio. A man opened fi re in an entertainment district, President Joe Biden, several Saturday in El Paso, Texas. [JOHN LOCHER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] leaving nine people dead. [JOHN MINCHILLO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] members of Congress, former President Barack Obama and actor Robert De Niro. Devices were also mailed to Authorities search for answers after mass shootings CNN offices in New York and Atlanta. in Texas and Ohio leave 29 dead, many wounded U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff will order 57-year- old Sayoc to serve at least 10 By Ceili Doyle, Lucas A NATION IN SHOCK years in prison, the manda- Sullivan, Jim Woods tory minimum required by and Matt Zdun Authorities in Dayton, his plea to 65 charges, includ- GateHouse Media Ohio, are looking for a ing 16 counts each of using a motive in the late-night weapon of mass destruction, Two massacres, 13 hours bloodshed that left 9 dead. interstate transportation of an apart. Twenty-nine people Prosecutors in El Paso, explosive, threatening inter- dead, at least 53 injured. Texas, plan to seek the state communications and The bloodshed at a death penalty against illegal mailing of explosives. Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a suspect in 20 deaths Prosecutors say Sayoc’s on Saturday afternoon and Saturday. devices, though not capable of overnight at a popular bar in President Donald Trump, functioning as designed, were Dayton, Ohio, horrified the blamed by Democrats still able to explode and were nation and roiled the now for inciting the violence, responsible for shutting down familiar debates over com- plans to make a state- parts of several major metro- bating white supremacy and ment today. “Hate has politan areas, including train regulating assault weapons. El Paso residents place fl owers at a makeshift memorial for the no place in our country, stations, schools and postal The masked gunman in victims of the Saturday mass shooting at a shopping complex and we’re going to take facilities. Dayton killed nine people Sunday in El Paso, Texas. [ANDRES LEIGHTON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] care of it. — including his sister — and See SAYOC, A6 injured 27 others. Police body armor and armed ammunition. Investigators More coverage responded within 20 sec- with a .223 high-capacity would not speculate Sunday onds and killed 24-year-old rifle when he opened fire, about a motive. Read more about the Connor Stephen Betts of authorities said. He carried shootings in Dayton Bellbrook, who was wearing 100-round magazines of See SHOOTINGS, A8 and El Paso. A8 Fatal lightning strikes a reminder to be cautious What Floridians be, especially in a state beset the 10th in the nation. summer in Florida, it’s need to know with regular thunderstorms Florida’s first lightning something Floridians should SPORTS | B1 and lightning. victim this year was Benja- be more aware of and plan- By Dinah Voyles Pulver The 24-year-old Clear- min Austin Lee, struck by a ning for, said John Jensenius UF’S CARTER GateHouse Florida water man succumbed to bolt that seared through his with the National Lightning his injuries after being struck helmet on June 9 as he was Safety Council and a retired LOOKS FOR The death of a Florida man by lightning on Clearwa- riding a motorcycle on Inter- National Weather Service after a lightning strike last ter Beach. His death is the state 95 near Daytona Beach. lightning specialist. BREAKOUT week is a grim reminder of second lightning-related With lightning nearly how dangerous lightning can death in Florida this year and a daily fact of life in the See LIGHTNING, A6 SEASON Volume 143, Issue 217 Local&State ................. A3 Sports...........................B1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion .......................A9 Diversions .....................B5 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Weather ......................A10 Classified ..................... B7 A2 Monday, August 5, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF JAKARTA, INDONESIA Hoverboard inventor fl ies over Channel Indonesian capital hit by massive 8-hour By Thomas Adamson power outage and Jason Parkinson The Associated Press Indonesia’s sprawling capital and other parts of ST. MARGARET’S BAY, Java island were hit by a England — Is it a bird? A plane? widespread power outage No, it’s a French inventor flying on Sunday that affected over the English Channel on his tens of millions of people. hoverboard. The eight-hour black- Looking like a superhero, out began at around noon Franky Zapata successfully and caused disruptions in completed the famed 22-mile cellphone services and journey in just 22 minutes cash machines. Sunday morning, reaching The new mass subway speeds of up to 110 mph on the system in Jakarta, the flyboard that has made him a capital, had to shut French household name. down. Propelled by a power pack Muhammad Kamal, full of kerosene, Zapata set off French inventor Franky Zapata lands Sunday near St. Margaret’s Bay beach, Dover, after crossing the the spokesman for the from Sangatte in France’s Pas English Channel on a fl ying board. [STEVE PARSONS/PA VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] company that operates de Calais region and landed the subway system, said in St. Margaret’s Bay, beyond leaders in Paris at Bastille Day from Dover, said it was quite an into his flight. That destroyed the company managed to the white cliffs of Dover, in celebrations, had ever traveled unusual sight. his transportation, a version of safely evacuate all of the southeast England. He stopped atop his hoverboard. “Spectacular and amazing. the flyboard that his company passengers who were only once, on the British side, The wind in the Channel, Not everyday you see a man sells commercially. stuck in trains during the to refuel his futuristic inven- especially gusts, presented a standing up, flying across the Zapata told reporters this blackout. tion from a boat in the choppy major challenge, he said, adding Channel, being chased by three time he was “scared to touch Television footage waters. that he bends into gusts but is helicopters,” he said. down” at the refueling station showed that traffic lights “I’m feeling happy... It’s just destabilized if the wind quickly Rosie Day, a 17-year-old at on the sea but knew “whatever went off in Jakarta and an amazing moment in my life,” dies. It was, he acknowledged, the British landing site, was happened,” his team “wouldn’t other parts of Java, caus- he said in English following his no easy feat — especially given impressed by Zapata’s flying let me fall into the water.” ing traffic problems. touchdown in Britain. “The last the physical endurance it skills. He said he and his team State-owned elec- 10% (of the flight) was easier... requires. He said his leg mus- “I was surprised by how worked around the clock to pull tricity company PLN’s because I had the time to look at cles were “burning” during the quick he was. It was really off the feat. spokesman Made Supra- the cliffs.” flight. impressive how fast he came “All week, we worked 16 teka said in a statement It was, of course, the record “Your body resists the in and the agility of his move- hours a day... we worked like that the blackout was for such a trip: No one else has wind, and because the board is ments,” she said. “He was very crazy,” he said. caused by problems tried to cross the channel in attached to my feet, all my body smooth.” French maritime authorities with a gas turbine at a this way. It was also a personal has to resist to the wind,” he told Sunday was the inventor’s said the refueling operation was major power plant and record — the furthest distance reporters. “I tried to enjoy it and second attempt at crossing the dangerous, even though Zapata by a disruption at another that the 40-year-old, who not think about the pain.” Channel. His first — 10 days ago nixed his initial plan to refuel facility on Java. He said drew nationwide attention Witness Mark Kerr, a — ended when he collided with his power pack from a flying authorities were inves- after whizzing above European 60-year-old hospital librarian a refueling boat several minutes platform.