Tude
Sometimes traveler is traveling.
Acola or Ocola - been seeing both tossed out there. Been snooping on this one for a while today trying to find something that substantiates it other than a lot of entries on a closed group on face book. This is also on FB.
Dice is responsive but paralyzed, they're calling it permanent . This is bullshit, no guns in church!
http://m.apalachtimes.com/news/law-enforcement/shooting-at-wright-lake-rainbow-gathering-1.446490
One man dead, two injured, in Wright Lake shooting
By DAVID ADLERSTEIN
Published: Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 13:03 PM.
One man is dead, and two are at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in critical condition, following an early morning shooting at Wright Lake where a Rainbow Gathering is being held.
Capt. Chester Creamer, with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed the shooting occurred sometime before 2:30 a.m. this morning, when the call came in to the sheriff’s office. Officers arrived on the scene at about 3:09 a.m.
Creamer said the incident at the end of Wright Lake Road is believed to have taken place around a campfire, and that alcohol was a factor. He declined to release any names because all the families have not yet been notified,
“These folks don’t have a lot of documentation on them,” he said. “We have to do a lot of legwork on that.
“None of them were locals. Period,” he said.
Creamer said alcohol was a factor in the shooting. He confirmed that a white male was dead from gunshot wounds, and that another had sustained multiple life-threatening bullet wounds, The shooter had been beaten and stabbed by some within the Rainbow gathering, and was detained until police arrived, Creamer said.
Because the incident occurred on federal land in the Apalachicola National Forest, near a boat landing on the river, the sheriff’s office is being assisted by law enforcement officers with the U.S. Forest Service. In addition the mobile crime lab from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement assisted.
Alan Smith, deputy district ranger for the Apalachicola National Forest, said the incident took place about a half-mile west of the developed campground, which remains open.
Wright Lake is about two miles south of Sumatra.
The Rainbow Gathering has been taking place there since last weekend. Rainbow Gatherings are annual meetings of the Rainbow Family of the Living Light, a loosely defined collection of people associated with hippie culture.
The original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, and has been replicated throughout the year, in regional gatherings, often in national forests.
Susan Blake, a spokesperson with the U.S. Forest Service, said the Rainbow group has a permit to gather on the site. She said it was not yet clear whether a violation of the terms of that permit would result in the gathering being closed down by forestry officials.
Dice is responsive but paralyzed, they're calling it permanent . This is bullshit, no guns in church!
http://m.apalachtimes.com/news/law-enforcement/shooting-at-wright-lake-rainbow-gathering-1.446490
One man dead, two injured, in Wright Lake shooting
By DAVID ADLERSTEIN
Published: Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 13:03 PM.
One man is dead, and two are at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in critical condition, following an early morning shooting at Wright Lake where a Rainbow Gathering is being held.
Capt. Chester Creamer, with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed the shooting occurred sometime before 2:30 a.m. this morning, when the call came in to the sheriff’s office. Officers arrived on the scene at about 3:09 a.m.
Creamer said the incident at the end of Wright Lake Road is believed to have taken place around a campfire, and that alcohol was a factor. He declined to release any names because all the families have not yet been notified,
“These folks don’t have a lot of documentation on them,” he said. “We have to do a lot of legwork on that.
“None of them were locals. Period,” he said.
Creamer said alcohol was a factor in the shooting. He confirmed that a white male was dead from gunshot wounds, and that another had sustained multiple life-threatening bullet wounds, The shooter had been beaten and stabbed by some within the Rainbow gathering, and was detained until police arrived, Creamer said.
Because the incident occurred on federal land in the Apalachicola National Forest, near a boat landing on the river, the sheriff’s office is being assisted by law enforcement officers with the U.S. Forest Service. In addition the mobile crime lab from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement assisted.
Alan Smith, deputy district ranger for the Apalachicola National Forest, said the incident took place about a half-mile west of the developed campground, which remains open.
Wright Lake is about two miles south of Sumatra.
The Rainbow Gathering has been taking place there since last weekend. Rainbow Gatherings are annual meetings of the Rainbow Family of the Living Light, a loosely defined collection of people associated with hippie culture.
The original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, and has been replicated throughout the year, in regional gatherings, often in national forests.
Susan Blake, a spokesperson with the U.S. Forest Service, said the Rainbow group has a permit to gather on the site. She said it was not yet clear whether a violation of the terms of that permit would result in the gathering being closed down by forestry officials.
