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Purse Used to Hit Florida Gunman Raises $26,200

By David LohrDec 23rd 2010 – 11:36AM
YouTube

YouTube

The purse that Ginger Littleton used in a gutsy attempt to disarm a gunman at a Florida school board meeting has been auctioned for $13,100 on eBay, and a charity organized by the other hero in the attack will get $26,200. "I wasn't terribly attached to the purse," Littleton told CNN. "So anything I could [do] to extend...

Widow: Florida Gunman Clay Duke an 'Honorable Man'

By Lisa FlamDec 23rd 2010 – 11:07AM
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AFP / Getty Images

The widow of Florida gunman Clay Duke says her husband of more than a decade was a gentle man who was never violent, an "honorable man" who wasn't trying to hurt anyone when he opened fire at a school board meeting. Duke, an ex-con, fired several shots and ultimately turned the gun on himself to commit suicide at the...

Ginger Littleton's Crime-Fighting Purse Put Up for Auction

By Hugh CollinsDec 18th 2010 – 12:15PM
CNN

CNN

Ginger Littleton, the Florida school board member who took on a gun-toting assailant with nothing more than her purse, is ready to sell the crime-fighting accessory in order to help buy Christmas presents for kids. Littleton put the faux-crocodile leather purse up for sale on eBay with plans to donate the proceeds to...

Hero Fla. School Board Guard: 'I Thought I Let Them Down'

By Deborah HastingsDec 16th 2010 – 1:22PM

(Dec. 16) -- Weeping hero security guard Mike Jones said today he feared he'd failed his Florida school board colleagues when a gunman opened fire during a public meeting. "I thought I'd let them down when he started shooting," Jones said in an emotional news conference in Panama City, Fla., where Tuesday's videotaped...

911 Call Captures Moments of Terror in Fla. School Board Shooting

By Mara GayDec 16th 2010 – 1:07PM

(Dec. 16) -- While Clay Duke held members of a Florida school board at gunpoint, a terrified woman described the hostages' ordeal to a 911 dispatcher as she watched it unfold live on a video feed. The unidentified woman fled the room as Duke took hostages during Tuesday's meeting of the Bay City School Board in Panama...

Background on clay duke

The 2010 Panama City school board shootings occurred on December 14, 2010 in Panama City, Florida.

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