Fla. School Board Shooting: Purse Used to Smack Gunman Clay Duke Sold for $13,100 on eBay, Says Report
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (CBS/AP) The purse a woman used to hit a gunman at a Florida Panhandle school board meeting was sold for charity on eBay for $13,100, according to a report.
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The purse's owner, board member Ginger Littleton, tried to use the purse to swat the gun from the hands of a 56-year-old Clay Duke, who took her and her fellow board members hostage at a Bay District School Board meeting in Panama City, Fla. on Dec. 14.
Littleton agreed to let NBC station WJHG auction off the purse on eBay with the proceeds going Mike Jones' Salvage Santa project.
Jones, the security guard who shot Duke, runs the charity, which reconditions used toys and bikes for children.
WJHG reports that the auction ended 7:55 p.m. Wednesday with a winning bid of $13,100 from a Virginia man who asked to remain anonymous. That bid was matched by Brahmin, the company that made the purse, meaning that the charity will receive a total of $26,200.
Duke had stormed the meeting to protest his wife's firing by the district.
He asked all women and children to leave the room, but while Duke was ranting to the male members of the school board Littleton reentered the room, then dangerously tried to disarm him, fortunate to escape unharmed.
Security guard Mike Jones stepped in after Duke fired at the board members and was able to shoot the gunman in the leg causing him to fall to the floor. Duke then took his own life.
