Punt for a Pickup returns, Below. + PLUS >> Lake City Reporter COMMUNITY SPORTS Prison Opening gives to day for Melrose volleyball See Page 2A See Page 1B TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014 | AT YOUR CHS HOME COMMUNITY FOOTBALL GAMES NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Man Coffers top $250,000 dies contested races was $253,000. The quite so freely during off-year Bulk was raised in county attorney, deadline for accepting contribu- elections. District 4 county commission races. tions was Thursday. Final cam- While the competitors in the from paign reports were due by mid- county attorney race have raised By TONY BRITT primary have raised just over a night Friday, and the tabulations a total of more than $155,000, [email protected] quarter million dollars in pursuit were available for public review Melinda Fryman, Columbia taser of their prize. Campaign records on Monday. Local candidates in today’s show the total raised in the seven The money doesn’t usually flow FINANCE continued on 3A Threatened to kill deputy, CCSO says. By SARAH LOFTUS To never lose another child [email protected] A Lake City man died Sunday night after a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriff used a taser gun on him, accord- ing to a CCSO media release. Timothy Shad Griffis, 41, started having trou- ble breathing immediate- ly after Deputy Sheriff Bradley Carpenter used a taser gun on him and was taken to Lake Shore Hospital where he was pro- nounced dead upon arrival, the release says. Carpenter responded to an elderly woman’s call about a suspicious man in her yard at 6:17 p.m. Sunday. Before calling 9-1-1, the woman said she yelled at Griffis when she saw him enter her yard, but he threw a metal pipe at her, so she went inside her house and dialed 9-1-1, the Live Oak Police release says. Chief Buddy When Carpenter arrived Williams looks at the house, he heard nois- at photos with es from the shed in the his daugh- woman’s yard and found ter Chandler Griffis in it. Carpenter then Photos by SARAH LOFTUS/Lake City Reporter Williams, told him to come out, but Live Oak Police Chief seeks to make tracking 18, who has Griffis refused and said Angelman he would kill Carpenter, devices available for special-needs children. Syndrome, a according to the release. disease that hin- The officer said that if he By SARAH LOFTUS escaped from his home before. ders intellectual didn’t come out he would [email protected] A lot of autistic and special needs use his taser gun on him. development. children have. They have strong According to the release, After a 9-year- LIVE OAK — On Aug. 13, Leo tendencies to wander. after Griffis still didn’t come Walker, 9, climbed out of the win- When people heard about Leo’s old autistic boy out and moved aggressive- dow of his bedroom. In the middle disappearance, police officials, was found dead ly toward him, Carpenter of the night with absolutely nothing Leo’s family, members of the com- in Live Oak, used his taser on the man. but the light blue shorts and shirt munity, people from other towns Williams has Carpenter handcuffed he was wearing. He didn’t even — literally anyone who heard about begun work to Griffis and called EMS at have the ability to find his way the missing child — banded togeth- make tracking which time Griffis began home or to ask for help. er to find him. devices available have trouble breathing and No one knows why he left, but And after four days of search- for people with then stopped breathing. because of his autism, people unfor- special needs tunately weren’t surprised. Leo had WANDERING continued on 6A who wander. TASER continued on 3A LCR’s ‘Punt for a Pickup’ is back Will be held at CHS games this year will have a tion of the proceeds from the home football games. chance to have their name ran- contest will be donated to the domly selected for one punt CHS STRIPES total person From staff reports attempt. One lucky fan at each academic program founded by home game will have the chance CHS Principal Todd Widergren. The Lake City Reporter once to punt a football 35 yards into “This is the most exciting again will bring high school the bed of the pickup. If the ball contest we’ve ever brought to football fans a chance to win a goes into the back of the truck, the people of Lake City and COURTESY new 2014 Ford F-150 as part in the air, and stays there, the Columbia County,” said Lake Lake City Reporter Publisher Todd Wilson, (left) Stephen Jones, Rountree of the newspaper’s Punt for a lucky fan will win the truck. City Reporter Publisher Todd Moore Ford General Sales Manager, and Reporter Advertising Director Theresa Pickup contest. Rountree Moore Ford Wilson. “Basically, all you do to Westberry commemorate the kickoff of this year’s Lake City Reporter’s Punt for a Fans who attend Columbia once again is a partner in the Pickup contest. High Tigers home football Reporter’s promotion. A por- PUNT continued on 3A Vol. 140, No. 145 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER SCHOOLS SPORTS (386) 752-1293 School . 7A Obituaries . 5A 120 FWES CHS runners SUBSCRIBE TO students attend place in top 20 THE REPORTER: 88 67 Advice & Comics . 6B Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 3B camp, 7A. at Santa Fe, 3B. Fax: 752-9400 Storm chance, 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your com- mandments!” — Psalm 119:9-10 Thought for Today The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance. — Alan Watts, British-born philosopher writer, and speaker (1915-1973) Winning Lottery Numbers Cash 3: (Monday) 2-1-3 Play 4: (Monday) 2-2-3-8 Fantasy 5: (Sunday) 7-13-14-15-16 See an error? The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will run in this space. Thanks for reading. COURTESY Submissions The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and Lake City Correctional Facility donates to Melrose Park caption information to run at the discretion of the editor. If Representatives from Lake City Correctional Facility recently delivered much-needed and appreciated supplies to Melrose you would like to see your organization in the newspaper, Park Elementary School. Pictured from left: Melrose Park Assistant Principal Stacey Frakes, prison representative Rosalyn send the picture and information to associate editor Emily Conner and Principal Laurie Ann Fike. See related story, Page 7A. Lawson at [email protected]. Hearing set in Florida loud music death case JACKSONVILLE the music coming from the teens’ vehi- suffered unspecified minor injuries. ple believed to be from Haiti came ashore man accused of killing a teenager cle was too loud, sparking an argument. The two were swimming in the canal in South Florida on Monday morning, during an argument over loud Dunn claimed self-defense and said he early Sunday behind a house where a officials said. A music appeared in court briefly fired into the vehicle because he feared party was taking place. One woman was found dead in the surf for a hearing in Florida. Davis had a weapon. Florida wildlife officials say crocodiles along Hillsboro Beach and another was State attorney’s office spokeswoman are frequently spotted in the canals and taken to a hospital for treatment after res- Jackie Barnard says Circuit Judge Russell Florida man bitten by signs are posted warning of their presence. idents of nearby condominiums alerted Healey on Monday made no rulings, set- Police were handing out flyers in the neigh- Hillsboro police. Another man was found ting a new hearing for Sept. 8. Jury selec- croc in suburban canal borhood as reminders about the crocodiles, in Boca Raton. All have been turned over tion begins Sept. 22 in Jacksonville. CORAL GABLES — A South Florida which authorities say rarely attack humans. to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Jurors deadlocked in February on man is recovering after he was bitten by The crocodile involved in this incident while the Broward Sheriff’s Office will whether Michael Dunn was guilty of kill- a crocodile while swimming at night in a was described as between eight and nine investigate the death. ing 17-year-old Jordan Davis of Marietta, Coral Gables canal. feet long. Officials say there is no correlation “at Georgia. He was convicted on three Authorities said Monday that 26-year- this point” to four bodies found floating counts of attempted murder for shooting old Alejandro Jimenez was treated and 20 migrants ashore in in the water off Hollywood Beach on at three others in the car with Davis in released at a local hospital after suffer- Sunday. November 2012. ing bites to his shoulder, arm and neck. fatal beach landing Witnesses said Dunn complained that Another victim, 23-year-old Lisset Rendon, HILLSBORO BEACH — Twenty peo- n Associated Press THE WEATHER 26 TUE 27 WED 28 THU 29 FRI 30 SAT Partly Partly Slight Chance cloudy cloudy chance of Light of storms wind storms HI 88HI LO LO67 HI 88 HI LO LO68 HI 92HI LO LO68 HI HI92 LO LO72 HI 90HI LO LO72 REGIONAL FORECAST MAP for Tuesday, Aug.