By Ken Jackson

Staff Writer

What started out as an uneventful Monday morning Courtroom 5F at the Osceola County Courthouse turned violent when members of the Kun and Clair families broke into fisticuffs in the courtroom foyer.

Shortly after Judge Jon Morgan postponed the hearing in the case of Jason Clair, who is accused in the June 28, 2011 murders of Joel and James "J.J." Kun on outside of Lenz's Dug Out Bar in St. Cloud, lawyers from the state and defense gathered nearly 30 witnesses called in to testify Monday to confirm their contact information. During the process, James Kun Sr., 45, the father of the victims, and James "Zeke" Parker, 52, Clair's stepfather, exchanged harsh glances and eventually words.

"You got something to say to me?" Parker then exclaimed over the crowd.

When court deputies and other bystanders stepped in to quell the argument, Jeremy Milyon, 23, a supporter of the Kun family, jumped in and Parker then turned his attention to Milyon. The two exchanged blows before officers took down Milyon, and at that point Kun and Parker began fighting. Law enforcement quickly took control and separated all of the combatants.

All three were taken into custody and charged with affray, a misdemeanor. Milyon was led out of the courthouse on a stretcher after complaining of a broken jaw after the fight. He was taken to Osceola Regional Medical Center and was medically cleared before he was arrested and transported to the Osceola County Jail.

St. Cloud Police Detective Christian Anderson, who was in attendance as an investigator in the Clair murder proceedings and was speaking to the state's attorney in the foyer about the case, responded as a peacekeeper and would take a blow to the back of the head, but was not seriously injured.

"Emotions were clearly running high and I stepped in to try to disengage, and at some point I was struck from behind," the 17-year veteran of law enforcement said. "I've never been involved in a courthouse incident like that."

The hearing in the Clair case was originally scheduled for hearing motions from the defense to declare Clair immune from prosecution based on the state's Stand Your Ground statute, made famous this year in the George Zimmerman shooting trial in Seminole County. There was also a motion to administer potential jurors a questionaire, and the state's responding objection to one of the questions. But, Judge Morgan reset hearing for October 3 when gunshot residue evidence was entered into discovery over the weekend.