JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax\u2019s Ben Becker has learned a high-ranking member of the Duval County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has been placed on paid administrative leave by the city following a viral social media post in which he appeared to wish for President Donald Trump\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Bob Pfalzgraf made the post on X at 12:04 a.m. Monday. In it, he wrote, \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the big beautiful obituary,\u201d in apparent reference to Trump\u2019s spending package. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The post quickly gained traction online, drawing roughly 20,000 likes and 11,000 reposts after being shared by the account \u201cLibs of TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement, the City of Jacksonville said, \u201cMr. Pfalzgraf has been placed on administrative leave while we investigate the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Pfalzgraf has served at the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office since 2020 and has the second-highest salary in the City of Jacksonville at $306,653. Only Chief Medical Examiner Dr. B. Robert Pietak makes more at $434,968. <\/p>\n CEOs of independent authorities such as JEA and JTA make more but are not considered city employees as they are hired by boards of directors.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n According to the Medical Examiner\u2019s website, the office provides services to over 1,300,000 people in Northeast Florida who live in two districts:<\/p>\n District 3: Columbia, Hamilton Counties (served by District 4) <\/p>\n District 4: Clay, Duval, Nassau Counties <\/p>\n Reached by text message, Pfalzgraf told Becker he \u201cwill wait to see what the city has to say\u201d before commenting.<\/p>\n The Florida Department of Health, which licenses Pfalzgraf, declined comment as well.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax\u2019s Ben Becker has learned a high-ranking member of the Duval County Medical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101611,2006,59734,101612,116,118,117,101610,634,27608],"class_list":{"0":"post-225019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-bob_falsgraf","9":"tag-doctor","10":"tag-donald_trump","11":"tag-falgraff","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-jacksonville_medical_examiner","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-president_trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}