In Panama City Beach, Florida, minutes after a School Board meeting was full of students accepting awards before a man entered and held the meeting hostage before firing randomly.
The gunman, Clay A. Duke, exchanged fire with a Security Guard. He then shot and killed himself.
Police said the shooting was not a spur of the moment thing. In fact, Duke had circled the date 12-14-10 on his calendar so he was planning this attack for some time according to the police.
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The shooting at the Bay District board meeting was not "a spur of the moment thing," Panama City Police Chief John Van Etten told The Associated Press. Police also found anti-government paraphernalia at Clay A. Duke's home, but the chief didn't provide details.
"He was obviously was not happy with our government," Van Etten said.
Video shows Duke rising from his seat, spray-painting a red V on the wall, then waving a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun and ordering everyone to leave the room except the men on the board. They dove under the long desk they had been sitting behind as he fired at them.
Duke's motivation was still murky Wednesday. He rambled to the board about tax increases and his wife, but also apparently created a Facebook page last week that refers to class warfare and is laced with images from the movie "V for Vendetta," in which a mysterious figure battles a totalitarian government.
The school board was in the midst of a routine discussion when Duke walked to the front of the room.
"We could tell by the look in his eyes that this wasn't going to end well," Husfelt told the AP.
These nuts are still out there. Cool heads need to prevail, but they won't. Fox News, Sara Palin and other tea baggers are stoking violence and hatred.
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