here is more from manuel gallegos. >> listen to me. i don't want anybody to get hurt. >> reporter: the superintendent of schools in panama city, florida, pleaded with the man who pulled out a gun during a school board meeting. but the man, clay duke, refused to back down. what happens next is disturbing to watch. >> please don't. please don't. please. [ sound of gunfire ] >> reporter: duke missed his targets completely despite being at point blank range. >> he was going to do this. there was nothing we could have done to stop him. >> reporter: he kept shooting until a security guard wounded him. he then turned the gun on himself. ginger littleton snuck back in and used her purse to try to knock the gun from his hand. it didn't work. >> these guys were sitting ducks. they were lined up like pigeons on a wire. and i couldn't leave them without trying to at least divert or somehow or other diffuse the situation. >> reporter: duke pointed the gun at littleton but didn't fire. by the time sweat team officers entered the -- swat team members