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Northeast Florida law enforcement leaders warn about deadly and dangerous ‘senior assassin’ game
State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Northeast Florida Sheriffs are looking to shut down a high school pastime with serious repercussions.
The “senior assassin” game is in fact no game at all, Nelson said in Jacksonville, as the recent trend of students targeting each other with water guns is taken far more seriously than the putative intent, leading law enforcement to ask for help in “shutting the game down.”
The warnings come after a student participating in the activity was shot in Yulee by an off-duty Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent on that agent’s private property.
“Yesterday, this game culminated in what could have been a fatal tragedy right here in our circuit. Our office responded to a shooting in Nassau County early yesterday morning,” Nelson said, regarding the confusion of a senior assassin with a home invader.
“While the game involves water guns, it often occurs in the dark in the late hours of night or the early hours of the morning,” Nelson added.
“Play occurs off school campus and often pervades the boundaries of private property, including yards, driveways, garages and cars, and the water guns often look like real firearms, certainly in the dark. It sometimes can involve masks, camouflage and other gear intended to obscure identity. And while intended to be really a simple and fun game, these tactics can obviously create a dangerous environment with potentially fatal consequences.”
Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper noted that three Bishop Kenny students targeted another BK student in his home driveway, after “lurking around vehicles.”
“The homeowner was alerted,” Leeper said, noting that a water pistol used “looks like a gun in the dark.”
“Thankfully, the student is still alive. But a couple of inches over, the parents would be looking at a funeral,” Leeper said. “They call it senior assassins. But doing something like that, I call it dumb assassins.”
“This can be a deadly game,” he added, “in the right situation.”
Leeper noted that the agent, a homeowner, had the right to defend their property, though an investigation is ongoing.
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The United States could partner with the country once peace is secured.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday in an attempt to wind down ongoing hostilities with Russia. And Donald Trump’s chief diplomat says the U.S. will be positioned to recoup at least some of the money spent backing Kyiv’s cause.
“The U.S. is going to have a stake in Ukraine’s long-term independence, and that should be anchored in an ongoing economic interest,” Rubio said on the “Clay and Buck” Show.
Rubio added that the stake could include “the ability to partner with Ukraine, a joint venture or something like that for their mineral rights, you know, all the natural resources they have.”
He also said “some of that money will go back to pay back the U.S. taxpayer for the billions of dollars that’s been spent there.”
The spend has been substantial. But the benefits could dwarf that.
Through the end of the last fiscal year, Ukraine response funding neared $183 billion. The Trump administration has proposed a deal worth $500 billion, which is under review by the Ukrainian government.
The potential accord comes as peace could be at hand.
Trump said this week that he had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” with an eye toward moves “to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine” with Zelenskyy’s Russian counterpart, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Rubio, along with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, will “lead the negotiations” that Trump believes “will be successful.”
Expect a lot of parties to have a say.
Rubio said Thursday the team is “going to be talking to Ukraine and we’re going to be talking to all of our allies and partners in Europe and around the world regarding this as well.”
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Floridians facing severe illnesses could soon have access to health care treatments produced uniquely for themselves and their conditions.
Doral Republican Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez filed a bill (SB 680) that would allow eligible patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses to request and receive individualized treatments from their physicians.
An individualized investigational treatment is defined in the bill as meaning drugs, biological products or devices that are unique and produced exclusively for use by an individual patient based on their own genetic profile. It includes individualized gene therapy antisense oligonucleotides (which targets messenger RNA) and individualized neoantigen vaccines.
To be eligible, a patient would need to meet several requirements, including having a life-threatening or debilitating condition attested to by their physician — based on analysis of the patient’s genomic sequence, human chromosomes, DNA, RNA, genes or gene products, such as enzymes or metabolites.
Patients would further be required to consider all other treatment options currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Written and informed consent for the use of an individualized investigational treatment would be required. That would include an attestation that current treatments would be unlikely to prolong the patient’s life; details on the specific proposed alternative treatment; potential outcomes; and a statement from the patient saying their physician, health plan or third-party administrator are not obligated to pay for any treatment unless required by law or contract.
Hospice eligibility could be withdrawn if the patient begins a curative treatment with the investigational product. However, eligibility for hospice care could be reinstated if the treatment ends and the patient meets requirements.
Patients would further be required to provide a statement acknowledging they are liable for all expenses related to the use of the treatment, which would extend to their estate, unless a contract states otherwise. A patient’s heirs would be protected from liability for debts related to the treatments if the patient dies during the course of their treatment.
Licensing boards and certain state entities who are responsible for Medicare certification, would be prohibited from taking disciplinary action against physicians solely because they recommended the treatments. State officials, employees and agents would be prevented from blocking access.
Health care facilities and manufacturers operating under a Federalwide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects under certain U.S. codes, regulations, policies and guidelines would be able to provide the treatments to eligible patients. Health care providers and manufacturers would have limited liability if they comply with the bill’s terms.
The bill further stipulates that it does not expand the coverage an insurer must provide under the Florida Insurance Code.
If passed, the bill would come into effect July 1.
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