Gunman Opens Fire at Bay District School Board Meeting in Florida

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) A gunman has opened fire during a Florida Panhandle school board meeting.

According to the Panama City News Herald, one man was taken from the scene in a stretcher and appeared to be dead. The reporter for the paper says that the man taken out in a stretcher was the gunman.

The paper also reports that the gunman was shot by a former school board member, district security chief Mike Jones.

A WMBB television reporter at Tuesday's meeting says the man came up to the podium at the Bay District School Board meeting and said he had a motion. He then pulled out a can of red spray paint and painted a "V" with a circle around it.

Reporter Nadeen Yanes tells her station he then pulled out a handgun and started talking.

Yanes says a school board member hit the gunman with her purse and he pushed her to the ground and started firing randomly.

Yanes and others ran outside. Police confirmed a shooting but had no further information.