Category: Public Safety

Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw has informed Historic City News that robbery detectives are searching for a man who was caught on video as he robbed a RaceTrac convenience store night manager, at gunpoint, at 2:20 a.m. yesterday morning.

When deputies and paramedics were called to the Ellsworth Drive home of 88-year-old Mary Shaw Mathews, in Palm Coast, Sheriff Jim Manfre told Historic City News that no one suspected anything was out of the ordinary. The woman’s primary care physician even told deputies that he would sign the death certificate.

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, which is not likely in this case, the death warrant signed by Florida Governor Rick Scott against Robert Eugene Hendrix will be executed at 6:00 p.m. this evening at Florida State Prison in Starke.

Historic City News readers following the case of 19-year-old Christopher Daniel Holt, one of fifteen men arrested in Operation “No Soliciting” on March 20, 2013, will see the trial wrap up this morning when closing statements begin at 9:30 a.m. in Judge Traynor’s courtroom.

A search warrant was obtained and was executed at the decedent’s residence in the shooting death of Abbott Scott Bennett; the results of which were reported to Historic City News this morning by St Johns County Sheriff’s Media Relations Officer, Kevin Kelshaw.