Fatal Shooting by Federal and State Lawmen. Shallow PR-generated article in St. Augustine Record. Pitiful.

What outside agencies are investigating this fatal shooting? A survey of St. Augustine Record readers established that we want more investigative reporting. We need reporting, not stenography, e.g,, parroting press releases from St. Johns County Sheriff's Office "COMMANDER" CHUCK MULLIGAN (the brother-in-law of Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR, who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994).
No more coverups. Michelle O'Connell and Andrea Sheldon both died in suspicious shootings that were ineptly "investigated" by SHOAR and his henchmen.
Justice for Michelle O'Connell.
Check out the Record's article, which is not even a "first rough draft of history."
This is not "reporting." It is "stenography." Pitiful.

Actual t-shirt distributed by Sheriff DAVID SHOAR as "prize" (He later apologized to me and others for it.)

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Edward Adelbert Slavin
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Woefully incomplete account, which is solely sourced to Sheriff David Shoar's flak, who is his brother in law. Pitiful.

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Crystal Bouknight Pate
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@Edward Adelbert Slavin wharever your option is of David Shoar's or who the hell his brother-in-law is. The POS messed with a CHILD and was in a known crack motel (probably smoken crack or meth). So whatever there reason was for killing him, they did society a favor. What if it had been your child that he messed with? I'm sure if it had been David Shoar's OR his his brother would be an issue.. Try letting that sink in...

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Edward Adelbert Slavin
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@Crystal Bouknight Pate
1. Will St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR investigate himself again?
2. Or will FBI and FDLE be called in? That is the standard of care.
3. Sheriff Perry would call in FDLE for ANYTHING involving deputies, including car wrecks.
4. But ethically-challenged Sheriff SHOAR arrogantly REFUSED to call in FDLE for months after Michelle O'Connell was killed in the home of Deputy JEREMY BANKS, with BANKS' service weapon on September 2, 2010. Evidence was NOT collected and preserved.
5. The New York Times and PBS Frontline have reported on this coverup.
6. The facts that you assert about the motel are NOT stated in the article. NONE of us are in any position to express opinions about what happened at the motel until there is an outside, independent investigation.
7. FBI and FDLE must investigate a shooting involving both federal and county officers.
8. From this day forward, the Record must do more than merely print vague PR handouts from Sheriff SHOAR's brother-in-law, or any other flak (including those for developers).
9. The Record's own survey data confirm that we readers want more investigative reporting. Thank you.

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andy blaze
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(especially when the info IS available at 11am on News4Jax app).

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andy blaze
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and YES it IS SCARY when there is NO OUTside agency investigating an officer involved shooting...

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Edward Adelbert Slavin
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@andy blaze
1. I was interviewed by Channel 4 reporter yesterday re: Commission discussion of raising bed tax, beach renourishment and St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore.
2. BUT no coverage of bed tax and renourishment today in the Record, which sometimes waits DAYS to print some stories on local govt. meetings. Why?
3. The "news hole" in the Record is way too small for the amount of news here.
4. AND our St. Augustine Record seldom interviews activists, preferring to interview developers and government officials -- a typical local newspaper status quo bias, as Tom Wicker wrote about in his book, "On Press."