Sign waver reported to sheriff’s office

Sheriff’s Media Relations Officer, Kevin Kelshaw, informed local Historic City News reporters that on Friday evening, the communications center received a call, just before 6:00 p.m., from a citizen reporting that a man was standing in traffic near the convenience store in Flagler Estates.

Deputy Sheriff Travis Coleman responded to the call, locating the man near the BuzzMart at Flagler Estates Road and CR-13.

According to the field contact report, Coleman found 49-year-old Flagler Estates resident, Darryl Glenn Brockman, whose last reported address was 9960 Kirchherr Ave in Hastings, standing in the median.

Kelshaw told reporters that when the deputy checked on the man’s welfare; he observed that Brockman was not illegally interfering with traffic, placing himself, or others, at risk.

Brockman was carrying a fluorescent yellow poster that read, “I have information about Michelle O’Connell’s murder 2010”. Brockman held up the sign to Deputy Coleman and told him that he couldn’t tell him what he knows because “You are part of the problem”.

According to one passerby who stopped, Brockman said that he has “been threatened by people because of what he knows”. Without disclosing what that information might be, Brockman went on to say that “no one wants to listen to the information he has”.

According to the passerby, Brockman told them that he went to Channel 4 the other day and they “didn’t want to hear anything” and they “called the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on him”.

Since Friday evening, Brockman has returned to the same location to wave his sign. He reportedly told Deputy Coleman that he is going to start going into St Augustine with the sign so that more people will be aware of what he has to say. Because Brockman was breaking no laws, there were no arrest or citations issued and Deputy Coleman returned to routine patrol.