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Widow: Florida Gunman Clay Duke an 'Honorable Man'

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...

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

(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

(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...

Wife: School Board Shooter Was 'Gentle Giant'

(Dec. 16) -- The wife of the man who opened fire in a Florida school board meeting before taking his own life said he was a misunderstood "gentle giant" and never meant to hurt anyone else. "He didn't want anyone to get hurt but himself," Rebecca Duke told reporters. "The economy and the world just got the better of...

Police: Florida School Board Gunman Planned Attack

(Dec. 15) -- Clay Duke, the Florida gunman who opened fire at a school board, ranted against the rich in what appears to have been a final manifesto on Facebook. Duke, a 56-year-old ex-convict, was mentally ill and had been planning the attack for some time, police said today. Dec. 14, the date of the shooting, was...