1A WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Town mourns lost teen Crash cuts a young life short By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] A Columbia High School stu- dent died Monday night in a two-vehicle collision at the inter- section of SW Main Boulevard and SW Malone Street. Czarrah Howard, 17, passed away while being transported to Lake City Medical Center and was pro- nounced dead at the hospi- tal, accord- ing to a Lake City Police D e p a r t m e n t press release. Five other students were Howard injured in the accident, two of which were transported to UF Health in Gainesville. Howard and her friends had Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter just left school after working on Columbia High School senior Darrah McNair, 17, signs a farewell message Tuesday for fellow senior Czarrah Howard, who died in a two-vehicle wreck homecoming floats, according to on Monday night. CHS principal Todd Widergren. At approximately 8:56 p.m. on Monday, the Lake City Police Department received a call about Classmates gather to grieve a vehicle crash near Columbia High School. Officer Ivan Useche, who was in the area, 17-year-old CHS senior heard the crash and responded Czarrah Howard was funny, immediately, the press release said. When he located the site, smart – and much loved. he found two vehicles in the intersection of Malone Street By AMANDA WILLIAMSON and Main Boulevard and several [email protected] teenagers lying in the road, the press release said. cloud of pink balloons drifted According to the Lake City into the dark, candlelit sky Police Department report, Tuesday night at the shores an off-duty police officer and of Lake DeSoto in honor of two off-duty Columbia County Columbia High School senior Sheriff’s Office deputies were ACzarrah Howard. already on scene rendering aid. “She will be missed, but there’s a piece Useche found Howard uncon- of her in all of our hearts,” said Cyrena scious and began CPR. She was Spagnola, one of Czarrah’s best friends, resuscitated, regaining con- told the crowd during the vigil. “It’s not sciousness prior to the arrival really that it will get easier. ... We just ask of the emergency medical ser- that you pray for the family. They need it. vices. She passed away en route Her close friends need it. We just ask for to the hospital to be lifeflighted your help.” to Gainesville, the report read. About 200 people gathered at the A 16-year-old male was trans- gazebo near Shands Lake Shore Regional ported by LifeFlight to UF Medical Center for the 8 p.m. candlelight Health in Gainesville. A 17-year- Columbia High School students mourn the loss of Czarrah Howard during a candlelight vigil at Wilson CZARRAH continued on 3A Park on Tuesday. CRASH continued on 3A Shutdown Gore executed won’t hit home for after 23 years a while on death row By TAMARA LUSH Most local residents Associated Press won’t feel impact until late October. STARKE — A former escort service owner who spent 23 years on Florida’s death row for By STEVEN RICHMOND the killings of two women – one of whom was [email protected] found in Columbia County – was executed Tuesday. Life in Columbia County Marshall Lee Gore, 49, will continue its course dur- was pronounced dead at ing the initial days of the 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following first government shutdown an injection at Florida State in 17 years. However, the Prison, authorities said. welfare of individuals receiv- Gore had no last words ing assistance from the gov- before the death sentence ernment, such as veterans was carried out. Gore and WIC recipients, may He was sentenced to be in jeopardy should the death for the March 1988 murder of 30-year- shutdown extend into late old Robyn Novick, whose nude body was October and beyond. found dumped in a trash heap in rural Miami- In this time of argument Dade County. She had been stabbed, beaten and political gridlock, a JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter and strangled. Gore also was convicted of blueprint to manage federal killing another woman, Susan Roark, whose dysfunction is one function Fall Around Downtown body was found in Columbia County, and of that appears to have gone the attempted murder of a third woman. smoothly. Throughout gov- Tom Foster, owner of Ruppert’s Bakery & Café in downtown Lake City, sets up decorations on Former Third Circuit assistant state attor- Tuesday in preparation for Fall Around Downtown. (Autumn) is a good season,’ Foster said. ‘You get a SHUTDOWN continued on 3A good feeling from the fall. We get into baking with pumpkins and spice. 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