Bush wants former boot camp head fired

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Governor Jeb Bush is asking Bay County's sheriff to fire the former supervisor of a juvenile boot camp in Panama City where guards roughed up a teen who later died.

Bush's letter to Sheriff Frank McKeithen was written Friday, when a medical examiner said a second autopsy on 14-year-old Martin Anderson found that he had been suffocated.

The first autopsy found that he died naturally from complications of a usually benign blood disorder.

The military-style camp was closed and the guards involved in the altercation were laid off. But the supervisor, Captain Mike Thompson, was transferred to another position.

McKeithen wrote Bush earlier this month saying Thompson didn't violate any policies or laws but that he would take swift action if a pending criminal investigation implicates him in wrongdoing.

A sheriff's spokeswoman would not comment, but McKeithen tells The News Herald of Panama City that he had no plans to fire the supervisor.

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