1A SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Top Baptist A helping SUNDAY EDITION leader to speak hand for kids here in Sept. 6A in need. 1C Soccer fields 2 slain outside bar dispute settled? Tensions remain between CYSA leaders, parents. By STEVEN RICHMOND [email protected] The Columbia Youth Soccer Association board of directors reached a tenta- tive solution to community complaints during a pub- lic meeting Saturday after- noon that will allow unaf- filiated adults and children Photos by PATRICK SCOTT/Special to the Reporter to use the soccer fields at Law enforcement personnel stand outside the Santa Fe Bar on the southern edge of Columbia County after two men were shot and killed during an the Southside Recreational altercation in the parking lot early Saturday. Complex. Adults, teens, and chil- dren who used the fields for pick-up games and practice Manhunt launched for suspected shooter were surprised last month when the Men die in parking pulled out a gun CYSA said and began firing, they would lot of bar following deputies report. begin lock- deadly altercation. A crowd of wit- ing gates nesses saw the to the soc- scene unfold out- cer fields By STEVEN RICHMOND side the bar, just at the com- [email protected] Wingfield 500 yards inside plex, citing the Columbia Everett issues of HIGH SPRINGS — Law County line, but most fled before liability and enforcement officers are on the deputies arrived. field degradation. lookout for a man accused of “Once the first man was shot, Saturday’s proposed solu- fatally shooting two Fort White another came to help him” and tion came after heated dis- men outside a bar early Saturday. was himself shot, Seigmeister cussion between members Columbia County Sheriff’s said. It is unclear how the two of the board and concerned deputies were searching late victims were connected, but parents that suggested Saturday for Willie J. Wingfield Siegmeister said “They were defi- III, who is accused of shooting to nitely on the same side.” FIELDS continued on 7A death Dennis Lamont Smith, 38, Gray plastic markers sit at the locations of bullet casings outside the Santa Deputies say it is not clear what and Erik Antonio Akins, 24, in the Fe Bar, where one bullet shattered the rear window of the car at left. started the altercation. parking lot outside Santa Fe Bar The shooter left the scene before in High Springs around 1:15 a.m. heated altercation outside the ing to Third Circuit State Attorney deputies found Smith and Akins Homeless Saturday. bar after one of the individuals Jeff Siegmeister. The argument student The men reportedly had a involved was thrown out, accord- turned deadly when Wingfield KILLING continued on 6A numbers growing Gun owner arrested in fatal shooting case Homicide, weapons Norman told police he left the gun 10-year-olds,” she DCF report notes on a kitchen table before going said. charges filed against to sleep at 3 a.m. He was report- Jarvin died two increase for third White Springs man. edly watching nine children who days later follow- consecutive year. belonged to his girlfriend and her ing complications From staff reports sister while the mothers were from a gunshot By AMANDA WILLIAMSON away. wound to the [email protected] The owner of a handgun used He awoke to the sound of a gun- neck. to fatally shoot an 11-year-old child shot and rushed to the living room Norman Investigators Homelessness among was arrested Friday afternoon, and found his girlfriend’s sister’s interviewed the 2-year-old and the Columbia County’s according to Lake City police. 4-year-old daughter holding the 4-year-old. They determined the youth continues to trend Michael S. Norman, of 16583 gun, police said. 4-year-old girl woke up and saw upward, according to the Jewett St., White Springs, was Maize Fennell, who lives one the 2-year-old girl playing with Department of Children arrested following an incident building over, said she saw the the handgun. Both children then and Families Council on in May in which a 4-year-old COURTESY boy carried out of the apartment started to handle the gun, the Homelessness. picked up a handgun belonging to Jarvin Jackson on a stretcher. report said. Out of the 9,000 students Norman and accidently shot and “When I seen him come out, The 4-year-old girl had injuries enrolled in Columbia County killed 11-year-old Jarvin Jackson ing to police. I turned my head because all I School District, nearly 7 in Cedar Park Apartments, accord- According to a press release, could think about was my 12- and FATAL continued on 6A percent, or 612, were listed as homeless for the 2012-13 school year, said the dis- trict’s homeless education Holiday Inn hosts liaison Dana Huggins. The report adds that the latest numbers ticked up from the kids charity event 567 homeless students in 2011-12, and the 403 in the Ice cream social Whether it’s a story 2010-11 school year. about the pool at the vil- “We have increased supports camp lage, the carousel, splash almost every year since for terminally ill. park or miniature golf we started counting our course that shoots water children,” Huggins said. “I By TONY BRITT at participants, each girl think the economy is still [email protected] has her own special tale struggling. I don’t see it and memory of the place. improving as much as other lyse Hancock, Two summers ago people do. It’s still impact- 5, and her Elyse was at the village ing our youth.” sister Audrey, fighting cancer. Public schools define 8, have fond “We stayed there for homeless students as indi- memories of six days,” said Kristy TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter viduals who lack a fixed, Ethe time they spent at Hancock, Elyse and Bonnie Ripley and her daughter, Annabelle Ripley, 3, of Lake Butler, are all smiles as the Give Kids The World Annabelle eats a bowl of ice cream during Saturday’s Ice Cream fundraiser at the local HOMELESS continued on 3A Village. ICE CREAM continued on 3A Holiday Inn and Suites. 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Rick Scott Columbia and Suwannee period of stability where on Friday turned over counties in north Florida. everything is behaving additional details on his Later, a model will produce predictably,” said Amy personal fortune in order a statewide map showing Baker, coordinator of the to make sure he is comply- sinkhole vulnerability, a state’s Office of Economic ing with a new state law. DEP and Demographic The multi-millionaire Research. governor turned in to the Baker and other state state’s ethics commission a State firefighters economists concluded that list of nearly $74 million in headed west the state’s main tax collec- assets he placed in a blind tions would grow by 3.4 trust more than two years The state is sending 40 percent over the coming ago. more firefighters out west year and then another 4.4 It shows, for example, to battle ongoing wildfires. percent by the middle of Scott transferred into On Saturday, the Florida 2015, bringing the total to the trust $1.42 million Forest Service firefighters $27.3 billion. in shares he owned in a will fly to Salt Lake City, That means Gov. Rick social networking com- at which point they will Scott and the Florida pany that came under fire be assigned to one of five Legislature can expect to from some conservatives areas in Oregon, California have a budget surplus of because it had partnered or Idaho, where blazes more than $2 billion to with Playboy magazine in have raged in some areas work with next year. Mexico. TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter for a couple of weeks. Scott established the The state firefighters, trust to remove direct Relaxing moment members of two initial Zimmerman trial attack hand crews, will control over his finances Volunteers (from left) Kira Luther, Shayna Gurvitz, Sean Bryant, Ryan Merrill, Sydney Carlisle, expenses grow and avoid questions of con- be expected to help cre- Stephen Bryant and Ana Kondratiev play a card game during some down time. The teens ORLANDO — The flicts of interest. But when ate fire breaks and fire were in Lake City participating in the Lutheran Servant Experience, where they volunteered at George Zimmerman trial he set it up, he was not lines around the wildfires. cost Seminole County gov- required to disclose what local charitable agencies last week. (See story, page 7A.) The latest deployment ernment $91,000. his money was invested in. brings to 68 the number of County officials said A new sweeping ethics Dan Krassner, execu- trust paid him $3.1 million Florida Forest Service fire Sinkhole study Friday that amount was law passed this year by tive director of Integrity last year.