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Project1:Layout 1 6/10/2014 1:13 PM Page 1 Heartbreaker: Close loss for Lecanto at state tennis /B1 TUESDAY TODAY CITRUSCOUNTY & next morning HIGH 88 Mainly sunny and LOW warm. 62 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com APRIL 27, 2021 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community $1 VOL. 126 ISSUE 201 NEWS BRIEFS Cases move ahead on docket BUSTER THOMPSON If Gurrola’s convicted as Citrus County Staff writer Court DIGEST charged, Howard can sentence him to between 25 years and up to COVID-19 cases As Justice Michael Gurrola’s potential defense, attorney Jack ... and I’ve been passing this onto life in prison. According to the Flor- trial for attempted first-degree Maro told the judge he’ll need to my client.” Maro, at first on Monday, asked ida Department of murder approaches, his legal address it with his 22-year-old cli- Gurrola is charged with at- Howard to schedule Gurrola’s Health, 14 positive cases strategies might have to change. ent from The Villages before trial tempted first-degree murder in- one-day trial for May 13, when his were reported in Citrus After Citrus County Circuit the week of May 10. volving a discharged firearm that expert witness, Dr. Harry Krop, County since the latest Court Judge Richard “Ric” How- “Under the circumstance, I’ll injured then-18-year-old Tyler would be available to testify. update. ard raised doubts at Gurrola’s need to reevaluate,” he said. “I’ve Miller in September 2019 outside Maro said he and Assistant No new deaths were re- hearing Monday, April 26, over his been traveling on an assumption Miller’s Inverness home. See COURT/Page A2 ported, for a total of 438. To date in the county, 10,886 people have tested positive (including REMEMBERING JERRY STEED 97 non-residents). No new hospitaliza- tions were reported, for a total of 704 hospitalized. Totals reflect prelimi- Barbering was in his blood nary reports received by the state, and are subject to revision. Vaccine registration system open DOH-Citrus’ preregis- tration system to sched- ule COVID-19 vaccine appointments for all indi- viduals 18 and older and frontline health care work- ers is now available. Individuals can now be added to a waiting list for vaccine appointments and be notified when ap- pointments are available Special to the Chronicle in Citrus County by visit- After four years in the U.S. Air Force, Jerry Steed returned to ing myvaccine.fl.gov or Inverness to cut hair at his dad’s barber shop. by calling 866-201-0442; TTY is 833-476-1036. As part of the state- wide preregistration sys- tem, each county has a Jerry Steed (right), a second-generation barber, cut hair for 53 years, including designated number that 15 with his son, John (left) at Steed’s Barber Shop in Bushnell. His father, individuals can call and Walter Steed, opened the former City Barber Shop in downtown Inverness in preregister with if they do 1943. Jerry Steed died April 10 at age 76. not have internet access. Citrus County’s desig- nated helpline number is 833-540-2058. Vaccine supply re- mains limited and ap- pointments may not be available for several weeks. As a reminder, the DOH-Citrus COVID-19 Vaccination site has moved and is no longer at the Central Ridge Dis- trict Park. All first and second doses of the ABOVE: Jerry Steed and his wife, Tarliece. Moderna vaccine are now LEFT: The original Steed barber shop, City Barber Shop, was provided at the DukeEn- downtown Inverness near the historic courthouse. This is a photo of the inside. ergy/DOH-Citrus COVID- 19 Vaccination Site, 8200 had a contract to play minor league base- Walter’s grandson. W. Venable St., Crystal ball right after graduation. “My dad loved being a barber, because he River. For information, However, a week after he graduated, a loved people,” John said. visit www.CitrusCounty tree fell on him, crushing his leg. Walter Gerald “Jerry” Steed Jr. died Health.org. Someone from the Job Corps of Engi- April 10. He was 76. NANCY KENNEDY neers came to see him in the hospital, offer- Although Jerry started his 53-year barber Chronicle seeks Staff writer ing him a vocational education of his career in Inverness, he spent 42 of those D-Day invasion choice. years in his own shop in Bushnell where n Citrus County, if your name is Steed, He chose barbering, which he thought he his son, John, and now his grandson, Titus veterans chances are you’re either a barber or a could do with only one leg. Steed, are barbers. Sunday, June 6, marks I farmer — or both. After barber college, he opened a barber “Years ago, Sumter County lost their only the 77th anniversary of Jerry Steed was both. shop and as his five sons were born, they barber, so people started coming to Citrus D-Day, the allied armed His father, Walter G. Steed Sr., started the spent their free time there, helping out and County to get their hair cut,” John Steed forces invasion of Europe. Steed barbering legacy, now in its fourth hanging out. said. “At that time, it was my dad and two of The Chronicle is seeking generation, with the City Barber Shop in “When you grow up in a barber family, his brothers, and someone said, ‘Why don’t stories of veterans who downtown Inverness in 1943. it’s assumed that you are going to be a bar- one of you come over to Bushnell and open were a part of the inva- Walter Steed had been a record-breaking ber. You don’t talk about doing anything a barber shop?’ baseball player at Citrus High School, and sion the day of or the im- else,” said John Steed, Jerry’s son and See STEED/Page A3 mediate days afterward. If you have information or know of a veteran, please contact Managing Editor Jeff Bryan at 352-564- 2909 or email jeff.bryan@ Florida Senate passes Almost 30% of Citrus chronicleonline.com or contact Assistant Manag- ing Editor Brian LaPeter residents vaccinated at 352-563-3293 or email vote-by-mail changes blapeter@chronicleonline. FDOH officials on Monday com. Hispanic and older voters. Virus infections also documented 10,886 cases — From staff reports Limits drop boxes The Florida proposal (SB 90) is of the novel coronavirus for the among an onslaught of elections- county — an increase of 168 INDEX DARA KAM related legislation being consid- surpass 10,800 transmissions since April 19, at Classifieds . .B7 News Service of Florida ered or passed by Republican-led BUSTER THOMPSON an average 24 cases a day. Comics . .B6 state houses throughout the coun- Staff writer Citrus County’s 7-day average Crossword . .B10 TALLAHASSEE — With Demo- try. The GOP-backed measures are positivity rate of new COVID-19 crats likening the measure to Jim Almost 30% of Citrus Coun- cases for its Florida residents Editorial. A7 a response to former President Crow-era practices aimed at keep- Donald Trump’s election loss to ty’s residents have been vacci- was at 7.43%, down from the Entertainment . A4 ing Black people from voting, the Democrat Joe Biden in November, nated for COVID-19 as the 8.34% average reported April 19. Health & Life . A10 state Senate on Monday passed an as millions of people — including county’s number of infections Health officials want to keep Horoscope . A4 elections package that would in Florida — opted to vote by mail surpassed 10,800. positivity rates — the number Lottery Numbers . .B3 make it harder for Floridians to amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Florida De- of positive results out of total Lottery Payouts . .B3 cast ballots by mail. The Senate proposal would limit partment of Health (FDOH) on test results — below 10%. Movies . .B6 A single Republican — Jeff supervisors’ use of mail-in ballot Monday, April 26, a total 43,399 Also, over the week for the Obituaries . A2 Brandes of St. Petersburg — drop boxes; make it harder for vot- locals received their complete county, the FDOH recorded 13 TV Listings. .B5 crossed party lines to join Senate ers to request mail-in ballots or series of vaccinations out of the hospitalizations and four more Democrats in voting against the change their party affiliations; and 58,756 who’ve been inoculated. deaths from COVID-19. As of bill, with opponents arguing that it require voters to submit requests To preregister for a COVID- Monday, there’ve been 704 hos- would impose unnecessary restric- for mail-in ballots every two years. 19 vaccine with the state health pital admissions and 438 deaths tions that would have a dispropor- Currently, mail-in ballot requests department, visit myvaccine. from the illness. tionately negative impact on Black, See VOTE/Page A9 fl.gov. See VACCINE/Page A6 A2 TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2021 LOCAL CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE went to Monsegur’s home, where Mon- Obituaries segur and White struck the man before COURT stealing his clothes, jewelry, cellphone Leonida Crematory in Lecanto, FL. Continued from Page A1 and about $4,000. Reyes, 79 Online daily Holy masses Charles later helped are offered for her by Fr State Attorney Kevin Davis are sched- Monsegur and White CRYSTAL RIVER Salvador Agualada of Im- uled to depose Krop over his evaluation bind and load the man Fred Leonida Tan Reyes, 79, maculate Heart of Mary of Gurrola’s mental health. into a vehicle, drive to Parish in Quezon City, Ma- Doland, 91 of Crystal River, FL passed Davis told Howard he Citrus Springs and away April 12, 2021.