NW Florida Man Kills Sheriff's Deputy, Self Over Zoning Dispute

In Navarre, Florida, the Northwest Florida Daily News reports:

• On a vacant lot just south of the East Bay River, an empty camper sits off a red dirt road where Mark Rohlman hoped to build his dream business. Instead, Rohlman killed an Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy and then himself with a shotgun early July 22. In the months before the tragedy, Rohlman filed two lawsuits - one in district court in Santa Rosa County and another in federal court in Pensacola.

• The first lawsuit was filed in 2007 after the Santa Rosa County Commission denied Rohlman's request to have his property rezoned. The second lawsuit, filed in May of this year, alleges a vast conspiracy involving county officials, federal law enforcement and even the Northwest Florida Daily News to deprive Rohlman of his civil rights.

For more, see Mark Rohlman's breaking point? (Before his death and shooting of a sheriff's deputy, Rohlman believed there was a vast conspiracy against him).