1A WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Third shooting victim dies Death toll from David Griffis, 44, died at ers Rolando released from the hospital soon. ten note with the names of Allen’s 7:39 a.m. Tuesday at Shands Gonzalez- According to sheriff’s deputies, intended victims, indicating that Saturday’s rampage at the University of Florida in Delgado and Allen confronted Griffis at the that the murders were premedi- now stands at four. Gainesville, following complica- Griffis before Pritchett Trucking headquarters tated. tions from a gunshot wound to turning the and shot in him in the abdomen Despite the additional evi- By STEVEN RICHMOND the abdomen, according to the gun on himself before returning to his home on dence, the sheriff’s office said [email protected] Union County Sheriff’s Office. Saturday morn- Southeast Sixth Avenue and tak- Allen’s motive was still unclear. Hubert Allen Jr., a former Griffis ing. ing his own life. “People woke us up at 10 a.m. LAKE BUTLER — A third vic- employee for Pritchett Trucking Coworker Union County Sheriff Jerry to tell us the news,” Allen’s neigh- tim has died following a Saturday Inc., fatally shot his former boss Lewis Mabrey Jr. was also Whitehead said Monday that shooting spree in Lake Butler. Marvin Pritchett and cowork- wounded but was expected to be investigators found a handwrit- SHOOTINGS continued on 3A Niblack FILL THE BOOT principal demoted, moved School board OKs superintendent’s reorganization. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] Columbia County School Superintendent Terry Huddleston said Tuesday he reorganized the instruc- tional leadership at Niblack Elementary School, resulting in the principal’s replacement by the assistant principal. Marilyn Gassett, former prin- cipal of Niblack, was demot- ed to assistant principal at Pinemount Elementary School. The decision was ratified dur- ing Tuesday night’s School Board meeting when the board approved a list of personnel changes that included Gassett’s reassignment. She will start at Pinemount Elementary on Monday, but has taken the week off until then. Niblack assistant princi- Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter pal Melinda Moses will take over as principal. “Ms. Moses has spent many years as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor and assis- tant principal,” Huddleston said. “These experiences will help provide her with the nec- ABOVE: Lake City Fire Department firefight- essary skills to lead the teach- ers and students at Niblack ers (from left) Austin Thomas, Jeff McNeill, Trey Elementary.” Beachamp, Scott Hale and Greg Sund pose for a Prior to the reorganization, photograph before going out on the department’s assistant principal Michael Fill the Boot drive to collect money for the Muscular Allen floated between Melrose Dystrophy Association on Tuesday. RIGHT: Thomas Park and Pinemount elemen- (left) and Beachamp smile as Jacob Byrd, 11, tary schools. donates money outside Walmart on Tuesday. No one has been selected to fill the assistant principal posi- tion at Niblack. Plans are still uncertain, Huddleston said. PRINCIPAL continued on 3A Eastside safety patrol has ambitious plan Pop cellist coming Unit attempting the children can develop those skills by seeing the to perform at Cafe´ to raise $9,780 accomplishments of oth- for DC field trip. ers. By STEVEN RICHMOND Sarah Ripple and Jeanie [email protected] By TONY BRITT Free are co-sponsors [email protected] for the safety patrol at Move over Yo-Yo Ma, Eastside. Christopher Bell is coming United States military Ripple, an fourth-grade to town. branches are built on teacher, said the patrol Lake City residents will pride, integrity and tradi- members are trying to have the opportunity to see tion. raise $9,780 so the children Bell, a cellist known for his While those character- can take two field trips dur- warm combination of folk istics often take on heroic ing the year. One trip will and rock that draws inspira- measure in war time, many be local, to the Columbia tion from Paul Simon and of them are grounded in County Courthouse and Randy Newman, at The Café a person’s youth, and a the county Sheriff’s Office downtown on Saturday. school safety patrol is an and the other trip will be to Bell is going on tour to COURTESY excellent place to start Washington. promote his new album Christopher Bell will be per- learning those skills. “We’re a Title 1 school, Sirens, a body of work he forming Saturday at The Café The Eastside which basically means said was largely inspired in downtown Lake City. Elementary School safety money can be the big- by his experience in the patrol takes pride in instill- gest obstacle,” Ripple said. wilderness of upstate New Bell said. “I got caught in ing those characteristics in “We do a lot of fundraisers TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter York and mythology. a couple storms. A bolt of its members, and its spon- because we do not want Austin Bunton, an Eastside Elementary School fifth-grader “I once spent seven weeks lightning came down within sors have planned a trip to and member of the school’s safety patrol, prepares to stop by myself in the wild, canoe- Washington, D.C., where PATROL continued on 3A traffic for Ethan Alvarado, a prekindergarten student. ing along the Erie Canal,” CELLIST continued on 3A Vol. 138, No. 151 People.................. 2A CALL US: TODAY IN (386) 752-1293 Opinion ................ 4A COMING 92 69 Obituaries .............. 5A PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE TO Partly Cloudy THURSDAY THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics ......... 3B Sidewalk Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles ................. 7B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A installation. roundup. 2AWEATHER 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013 Page Editor: Jim Barr, 754-0424 Celebrity Birthdays Tuesday: Tuesday: n Actor David Soul is 70. is 40. 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