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The families of Danny Rolling’s victims headed to Starke in a funeral procession of sorts, 20 vehicles of families and friends led by a police escort.
Sixty-two relatives of the five victims gathered for lunch at a Gainesville hotel. Guests included investigators and prosecutors, including former gubernatorial candidate Rod Smith, who was state attorney at the time of Rolling’s trial.
Smith wore a lapel pin with the birth stones of each of the five victims, given to him and all the other prosecutors at the time of the sentencing.
As the families tried to gather for a quiet lunch, several tv crews approached people in the hotel parking lot but were escorted off by management.
Stay tuned to tbo.com, WFLA-TV News Channel 8 and The Tampa Tribune for an inside view of the luncheon.
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