1 TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM FRIDAY SHOOTING NAACP takes Stray bullet aim at Gilmore struck State president leads charge at second local gathering. By HANNAH O. BROWN victim [email protected] NAACP state representatives pushed By TONY BRITT forward in the case against LCPD Chief [email protected] Argatha Gilmore during a town hall meeting at Richardson Community Authorities continue to investigate Center Monday night. The meeting a weekend shooting at a local apart- also served as a forum to hear resi- ment complex that left one Lake City dents’ thoughts on racial discrimina- man dead, two others injured and a tion by the public. Jacksonville man and “We stand against racial discrimina- Live Oak man in jail tion and racial hatred,” NAACP state on multiple weapon representative Dale Landry said. “That and drug-related is on our card. That is our charge. We charges. can’t wait.” Carlos Lamar State NAACP members alongside Williams, 31, 1442 NW state members from the Southern Wayne Place, Wayne Christian Leadership Conference asked Drive Apartments, Livingston for Gilmore and city manager Wendell died from wounds he suffered in the shoot- NAACP continued on 3A ing. Arrested were: JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter • L a ’ Q u a n z a ABOVE: John Mayo, President of the Lake Dontya Gee, 28, 193 City/Columbia County NAACP, watches as Johnson Ave., Live Adora Obi Nweze, president of the Florida Oak. He was charged State Conference of the NAACP, makes a with homicide, Powell armed robbery, traf- speech during a town hall meeting held at ficking cocaine (more than 28 gram) the Richardson Community center Monday with a firearm, aggravated battery and night. discharging a firearm in public. He was booked into the Columbia County Detention Center with no bond; and •Leonard Shundel Goodman, 32, 1548 West 17th St., Jacksonville. He was charged with homicide, armed rob- bery, trafficking cocaine (more than 28 SHOOTING continued on 3A POLICE Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Elder LEFT: David Honig (left), the Special Counsel for Civil Rights for the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, explains the organization’s stance in regard to Lake City Police Chief Argatha Gilmore as NAACP state representative Dale Landry looks on. The state NAACP will allow the Lake City branch to make a decision on whether to take action against Gilmore. RIGHT: Former Lake City business owner Rick abuse Brown takes up an issue with NAACP officials during a town hall meeting Monday night. alleged ‘School Tools for Cool Kids’ under way By TONY BRITT [email protected] Dana Huggins, school district homeless the store. By LAURA HAMPSON education liaison. School supply donations from the com- A Lake City woman faces aggra- [email protected] Publix Super Markets and United Way of munity allow the school district’s homeless vated battery and other charges after Suwannee Valley are collecting supplies for education program to stretch its budget, she allegedly left her grandparents undreds of Columbia County homeless children in the county. which is mostly spent on tutoring for home- outside their home in their wheel- students may not have the The supply drive, School Tools for Cool less students, Huggins said. chairs, under a shade tree in 90-degree pencils, notebooks and other Kids, runs until Aug. 20 at Publix, off U.S. “We do appreciate and need all of those weather. Authorities also reported supplies they need to be suc- Highway 90 in Lake City. donations for school supplies,” she said. the living conditions cessful this school year. Pre-made packages of supplies can be Many children would not have supplies were unfit. HLast year, about 570 children in purchased at the store or supplies can be Heather Marie Columbia County were homeless, said dropped into a donation bin in the front of SCHOOL continued on 3A Eskilson, 24, address withheld, was charged with aggravated assault Another with a deadly weap- Police: Homeless Eskilson on, elder abuse scene man filed false and intimidating a from victim by not allowing contact with robbery report law enforcement. She was booked Debby into the Columbia County Detention From staff reports Facility on $15,000 bond. In this aerial pho- According to Columbia County tograph, a wall of A homeless man was Sheriff’s Office reports, deputies floodwater rages arrested Sunday night were dispatched to a Kensington Lane across Old River after filing a fake police address in reference to a disturbance report identifying him- and the caller said the homeowners, Road on June 27, self as an armed rob- an elderly couple, were outside in destroying parts bery suspect. The man their driveway calling for help. of the asphalt later told authorities he When deputy William Stratton and washing wanted to be arrested arrived he reported finding the cou- away the dirt because he was home- Brown ple sitting outside in their wheel- underneath. less, reports said. 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