An armed gunman took hostages and fired shots during a school board meeting in Panama City , Florida at the Bay District Schools' Nelson Building Tuesday. The gunman has been identified as Clay Duke , 56, whose wife had been fired by the school district. Duke fired at board members until he was shot and wounded by district security chief Mike Jones. Shortly afterwards Duke shot himself in the head. A SWAT team burst into the meeting room and were initially thought to have shot Duke, but it was later determined that Duke had shot himself, according to police. The gunman was taken out of the meeting room on a stretcher. Witness have said that shots were heard, however there are reports circulating that the gunman shot blanks instead of live rounds. A reporter who was in the room at the time thinks the weapon may have been a "cap gun", but police say that the weapon was a pistol loaded with live rounds. The gunman allegedly spray painted the letter 'V' on the meeting room wall. The 'V' is the same symbol used in the movie V for Vendetta .
An armed gunman took hostages and fired shots during a school board meeting in , Florida at the Bay District Schools' Nelson Building Tuesday. The gunman has been identified as , 56, whose wife had been fired by the school district. Duke fired at board members until he was shot and wounded by district security chief Mike Jones. Shortly afterwards Duke shot himself in the head. A team burst into the meeting room and were initially thought to have shot Duke, but it was later determined that Duke had shot himself, according to police. The gunman was taken out of the meeting room on a stretcher. Witness have said that shots were heard, however there are reports circulating that the gunman shot blanks instead of live rounds. A reporter who was in the room at the time thinks the weapon may have been a "cap gun", but police say that the weapon was a pistol loaded with live rounds. The gunman allegedly spray painted the letter 'V' on the meeting room wall. The 'V' is the same symbol used in the movie .
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