The Florida Fish and Wildlife conservation commission are investigating a fatal shooting of a pit bull dog at Indian Hammock.
An incident report from the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s office showed on Sept. 24 the owner of the dog reported the pit bull had run off with a labrador but when it came off began to have seizures and died.
She found a bullet hole in the dogs right side behind the front shoulder.
The owner went on to report that someone in the neighborhood had been shooting at deer with a .22 caliber rifle and that same person could have shot her dog.
A former student at the Okeechobee School for Boys is scheduled to be executed in Florida tonight for two murders in Miami-Dade.
Victor Jones, 64, was convicted of murdering Matilda Nestor, 66 and Jacob Nestor, 67 in December, 1990.
Jones was among the students who received payments from the state for abuse he reported while he was attending the school.
The Florida Supreme Court refused to halt the execution and an appeal was pending before the US Supreme Court at last report.
A recent report said as many as 30 students who attended the Okeechobee School have later been placed on Florida’s death row for various homicides.
Senator Erin Grall was the featured speaker at the annual Okeechobee County Republican Party dinner on Thursday.
Grall said recent polls show one in five people under 30 in the United States say it is okay to be violent over political issues and disagreements.
She spoke in the aftermath of the heinous assassination of Christian activist Charlie Kirk.
“People want to talk about issues. People want to hear reasonable dialogue on complex things that are happening in our country. Most people that is. Most people.”
Grall said they need to get a handle on the issue of political violence.
“It is a very dangerous America if we don’t push back with love and education quickly.”
She said there is an opportunity in the death of Mr. Kirk.
“People can take what happened to Charlie Kirk and find your mission and your purpose and stretch beyond where you have been and what you have been doing and extend this exponentially across our communities, our state and our country.”
Highlands County and other rural counties plan to lobby the state this year for more funding for the transportation disadvantaged program. The program provides transportation to those with no vehicles so they can get to doctors appointments, grocery shopping and other needs.
Commissioner Don Elwell said Highlands County measures over 1,100 square miles and a traditional bus system you find in a city would not work.
“There’s way too much demand, and way too little money.
Elwell pointed to the state budget surpluses as a way to provide funding for those in need.
“Just a small percentage of those surplus dollars at the state could make a huge difference for an awful lot of the population in Florida.’
An illegal immigrant truck driver pled no guilty in the crash that killed three people in St. Lucie County.
Harjinder Singh is facing vehicular homicide and immigration violations in connection with last months accident.
Its believed Singh was unable to read the street signs and might have gotten lost when he attempted a U-turn in the middle of the busy highway.
Singh will be back in court on Friday.