Umatilla shooting leaves victim in critical condition, deputies say
Authorities are searching for the gunman behind Wednesday's shooting in Umatilla. (Lake County's Sheriff's Office)LAKE COUNTY, Fla. โ A person was critically wounded during a shooting in Umatilla Wednesday morning and now deputies are looking for the gunman, according to the Lake County Sheriffโs Office. Deputies said the shooter went to the victimโs residence on Highland Avenue around 11:20 a.m., shot him or her and then fled in a dark-colored sedan with tinted windows. LCSO released a photo of the vehicle that fled the scene, asking for the publicโs help in finding it. Detectives are urging anyone with information about the shooting to call the sheriffโs office at 352-343-2101.
Lake County school district upholds firing of teacher over crude TikTok videos
(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)UMATILLA, Fla. โ A Central Florida school district will not reinstate a middle school teacher who lost his job last year after making โlewd and offensiveโ TikTok videos that were seen by his students. The Lake County School Board agreed last month to uphold the termination of Todd Erdman's teaching contract, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Telfer heard two days of testimony and then ruled in November that the school district had just cause to fire Erdman, the newspaper reported. โThose TikTok videos contain lewd and offensive material,โ he wrote in his Nov. 6 order. โThose TikTok videos made their way into the public sphere, and were viewed by students and parents in the school district, as well as school district personnel.โErdman was overseeing the middle schoolโs in-school suspension program when he was removed from his post in 2019.