Floyd LaFountain, doing his time at Calhoun Correctional Institution in Blountstown: "I never thought I'd be like I am now. I never even gave it no thought." He and two other teen runaways tried to rob Manuel Huerta, a 73-year-old retired bus driver in Tampa. A 16-year-old cohort put a .22-caliber rifle to Huerta's forehead and pulled the trigger.

[Special to the Times: Phil Coale]