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Florida State Board of Administration official killed in apparent road-rage shootout
Orlando Sentinel ^ | January 12, 2022 | Tiffini Theisen

Posted on 01/12/2022 7:50:28 PM PST by Coronal

A spokesman for Florida’s State Board of Administration was shot and killed in an apparent road-rage incident last week near Tallahassee, according to law enforcement and news reports.

The driver of a Prius fatally shot John Kuczwanski, 52, outside a Circle K on Thursday after the two had pulled over following a collision, according to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office and accounts by Florida Politics, the Tallahassee Democrat and other news organizations.

Florida Politics cited unnamed sources who said the incident began when Kuczwanski’s BMW veered out of its lane and hit the Prius, after which both drivers pulled into a parking lot.

The driver of the Prius confronted Kuczwanski, and then got back into his car to wait for law enforcement to investigate the accident, the sources told Florida Politics.

The exchange then escalated dramatically as “Kuczwanski rammed his BMW into the Prius on the driver’s door, and began pushing the car sideways in the parking lot,” according to the account. “Kuczwanski then shot a gun at the white Prius, according to the sources.”

The Prius driver, who also had a gun, shot and fired back into Kuczwanski’s windshield, striking him, the sources told Florida Politics.

The incident took place shortly after 5 p.m. in the area of 6700 Thomasville Road, near Bannerman Road.

Deputies and EMS attempted life saving measures for Kuczwanski on the scene. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Court records show Kuczwanski had been “arrested for a confrontation with another driver at the same intersection in December 2014,” WCTV reported Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; fl; florida; kuczwanski; roadrage
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1 posted on 01/12/2022 7:50:28 PM PST by Coronal
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No doubt the FBI will investigate this as a terror attack by an irate parent.


2 posted on 01/12/2022 7:56:36 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Coronal

Self defense? Strange story.


3 posted on 01/12/2022 7:56:38 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: Coronal

Wow, that’s all kinds of screwed up, and looks like a good shoot at first glance.


4 posted on 01/12/2022 7:58:27 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Coronal

Government bureaucrat and BMW driver. What could go arrogantly wrong?


5 posted on 01/12/2022 7:58:58 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Coronal

Not to make light of things, but Tiffani Theisen and Circle K imply a Hollywood connection.....


6 posted on 01/12/2022 8:00:03 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Coronal

I’m shocked that a prius owner had a gun.


7 posted on 01/12/2022 8:02:37 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

It’s Florida


8 posted on 01/12/2022 8:05:25 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

“It’s Florida”

Very true. I once met a Trump voter who drove a Prius, although when he told me about Trump, he felt the need to whisper it (we were next to the Prius).


9 posted on 01/12/2022 8:12:06 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Coronal

A lot of people that buy electric cars are violent zealots.


10 posted on 01/12/2022 8:18:27 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: dynachrome

my first thought too 😂


11 posted on 01/12/2022 8:23:30 PM PST by MyDogAteMyBallot ( )
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To: jjotto

We’re NOT arrogant.

It’s not our fault they don’t come with turning signals.

Who needs those fkn things anyways?


12 posted on 01/12/2022 8:24:33 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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Heh heh

I get made fun of for driving a Jaguar…


13 posted on 01/12/2022 8:27:34 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Coronal

Gee wiz this is tragic. People are so unhinged these days. You get so angry you ram a car and start shooting at it? And then that gets the other guy so mad he starts shooting back at your car? This is nuts.


14 posted on 01/12/2022 8:28:04 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I’m shocked that a prius owner had a gun.

And was the better shot.

15 posted on 01/12/2022 8:29:37 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: Coronal

Florida State Board of Administration official?

If the report is true, he was a lunatic.


16 posted on 01/12/2022 8:30:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: monkeyshine
And then that gets the other guy so mad he starts shooting back at your car? This is nuts.

That part isn't nuts. Unless you think letting someone kill you with his car or his gun is just the better part of valor. I suspect fear was more likely his main motivator than anger.

17 posted on 01/12/2022 8:33:22 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: TigersEye

That is pretty shocking.


18 posted on 01/12/2022 8:34:11 PM PST by Trillian
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To: jjotto

Love jags. Was very, very close to getting an F-type, but the manual only was available on the 6 cylinder - not the 8.

I could not, for the life of me, understand the thinking behind that... so I just went with the Z06.


19 posted on 01/12/2022 8:42:13 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Coronal

One could almost think the prius driver was trying to get away with stealing something valuable but illegal from the FL official.


20 posted on 01/12/2022 8:50:23 PM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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