Motorist with long criminal history allegedly tries to run over a father and son. But Dad has a gun.



A motorist with a long criminal history allegedly tried to run over a father and son Saturday in Florida — but authorities said the father fatally shot the motorist.

Marcus Blicker, 47, followed two vehicles driven by a neighbor’s son and his friend and aggressively swerved toward them in traffic, deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup.

The neighbor's son called his father and told him he was being followed, the News-Journal said.

When the son and his friend got to the father's home on Jackson Lane in Port Orange, deputies told the paper that Blicker arrived there as well and started yelling and threatening the son and his friend. Port Orange is about 15 minutes south of Daytona Beach.

The homeowner fired warning shots, asking Blicker to leave, the News-Journal reported.

However, the paper said Blicker around 7:40 p.m. tried to ram them with his truck and was shot.

When deputies arrived at the scene, Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup, the sheriff's office told the News-Journal.

The incident was captured on video and audio recordings that support the accounts of the shooter and witnesses, deputies told the paper.

No criminal charges have been filed against the homeowner who shot Blicker, the News-Journal reported. The sheriff's office added to the paper that the shooting remains under investigation.

The News-Journal also noted that a Rottweiler in Blicker's truck was injured during the shooting, after which Volusia County Animal Services responded and took the dog for veterinary care. The dog is expected to recover, the paper said.

The News-Journal, citing court records, said Blicker has a long criminal history. He was arrested in 2020 for aggravated stalking, for which he served 12 months' probation, the paper said, adding that in 2012 he was sentenced to 12 months' probation for battery after punching a woman in the cheek at the Flagler Tavern in New Smyrna Beach.

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DC librarian who made third-graders re-enact Holocaust is a failed Democratic school board candidate convicted of fraud, charged with animal abuse



The Washington, D.C., public school librarian under fire for recently forcing third-graders to re-enact the Holocaust is reportedly a failed Democratic school board candidate from New Jersey who has been convicted of fraud and charged with several counts of animal abuse.

Kimberlynn Jurkowski, 61, was placed on leave this week after news broke that she "traumatized" young children by making them role-play simulated shootings and gas chamber deaths during a library lesson last Friday. One student was even forced to play murderous tyrant Adolf Hitler, and others re-enacted digging mass graves while the librarian made anti-Semitic comments and instructed the children not to tell their parents about the lesson.

But the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that Jurkowski should have been a controversial hire for the D.C. public school system long before the incident, given her sketchy background, which included defrauding the state of New Jersey out of nearly $24,000.

While serving as a school librarian in Atlantic City, Jurkowski engaged in a tutoring scam by taking advantage of the district's agreement to pay for the tutoring of Jurkowski's two children. After the tutoring ended, she and the tutor continued to bill the district for another six months. The two were eventually caught, and Jurkowski was convicted of fraud.

During her time in New Jersey, Jurkowski also ran unsuccessfully for a local school board position, according to a post on her Twitter account telling of her candidacy. But the Free Beacon reported on Tuesday that "there is no record of Jurkowski serving on the school board for Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, where she says she ran for office."

Lesson 101 Great Teachers, teach, lead, and expose hidden Truth... Old poster, a run for the School Board in Township of Hamilton, Mays Landing, NJ, I learned about politics, corruption, fake news, lack of African American participation in the school system....A Change is....pic.twitter.com/6PhTRpbu2t
— Kimberlynn Jurkowski (@Kimberlynn Jurkowski) 1592326648

Jurkowski also reportedly lost her New Jersey teaching license in 2015.

Then, in 2019, she was charged with four counts of animal cruelty after she abandoned five dogs outside a dilapidated house in freezing temperatures. One of the dogs, a Rottweiler named Poseidon, died.

According to a report from Pet Rescue, Jurkowski had "left the property and moved to another town," abandoning the animals on a "property [that] was completely run down" with "dilapidated buildings, garbage, and dogs in pens with sheets of plywood leaning against a fence to act as shelter."

Below is one of the police bodycam videos from when an officer responded to the property.

In response to requests for comment from the Washington Post this week, D.C. Public Schools would not say whether it knew about Jurkowski's criminal record during her hiring process.

Though at a news conference Monday, Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee claimed, “We do a thorough background check on all of our employees when they are hired," adding, "We’re doing an investigation into the hiring process specifically to the staff member.”