GUNS IN THE NEWS--March 8, 2004

[MrBenchley]

As CO Liberal sez:
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[MrBenchley]

1. San Jose Police Officers Shoot and Kill Man After He Points Gun at Them

"San Jose Police Spokesman Steve Dixon told KCBS officers responded to East San Fernando Street after a 911 call. They found a man sitting in a car who seemed suicidal, and they tried using crisis intervention.
At one point, police say the man put a revolver on the roof of the car, leading them to believe he was about to surrender. He then got out and reached for the gun, at which point officers fired non-lethal rounds at the man. When he got a hold of it and pointed it at them, they opened fire, killing the man."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kpix/20040308/lo_kpix/9380

[MrBenchley]

2. Guns smuggled from South Florida arming Haitians

So much for that "guns ensure freedom" horseshit...in this case they helped the former regime's secret police oust democracy.

"The political unrest in Haiti, with its graphic daily images of gunfire and street violence, is focusing attention once again on the island's South Florida gun connection.
Behind drugs, gun cases now occupy most of the attention of federal prosecutors in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, statistics show. The U.S. Attorney's Office does not keep track of the intended destination of smuggled guns.
But the ATF has said that 25 percent of the gun-smuggling cases handled by its Miami office during the past three years have involved firearms destined for Haiti. The island is the top foreign destination for guns exported illegally from South Florida."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-gunsmar06,0,1669888.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[MrBenchley]

3. Cairo Triple Shooting (IL)

"CAIRO, IL --One man is dead and two others are injured after an overnight shooting at a Cairo night club.  Cairo Police tell Heartland News one man died from his injuries, while two others remain in the hospital, after the shooting Sunday morning.
Investigators say when they arrived 27-year old Dion Cherry, 31-year old Carlos Trenton and 30-year old Mario Hodge were found across the street from the nightclub with gun shot wounds to the arms, legs and torso. Dion Cherry died of his injuries about two hours after the shooting. “We believe that it was a heat of the moment type deal where they may have been an argument or altercation prior to the shooting." Lt. Gary Hankins said. 
Police say they don't know what led up to the triple shooting. Investigators would not comment if the three men were shot with the same gun but say they found 25 automatic shell casings at the scene of the crime. Police still don't know the relationship between the three men involved in the shooting. Lt. Gary Hankins says, “We do know that two of them are from Cairo.   One is from Pulaski. The two from Cairo do know each other. The two from Cairo are friends." "

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=1693629&nav=8H3xLLwd

[MrBenchley]

4. Man charged in school bus shooting had another target, ABI says (AL)

"A Cedar Bluff man charged in the Cherokee County school bus shooting apparently intended to hit a separate vehicle, a state investigator said.
Sheriff Larry Wilson said James Allan Waddell, 20, was arrested and charged Friday with five counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle and one count of breaking into a vehicle.
If convicted, Waddell could be sentenced to life in prison. He is being held in the Cherokee County Jail on $300,000 bond.
A bus carrying four students from Cedar Bluff School on Tuesday was hit by at least five rifle bullets as it passed through the Farill community on Alabama 9. Three of the bullets shattered windows near the children, but no one was injured.
Wilson said he was still investigating whether there was a connection between the bus shooting and the shooting of a car on the same section of Alabama 9 in December."

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040306/APN/403060681

[MrBenchley]

5. Escort duo escorted from house in handcuffs (UT)

Guns AND whores...surprised they didn't turn up Larry Craig here.....

"A search warrant was served at a business called "Companions Escorts" by Salt Lake police and the Internal Revenue Service. The warrant was reportedly for financial records, according to West Valley Police Lt. T. McLachlan.
      The Salt Lake search led to a second search of a home near 2700 South and 3300 West. West Valley police were asked to assist.
      When agents entered the house, they found an SKS semi-automatic assault rifle near the door and handguns scattered throughout the house, McLachlan said. All of the weapons were loaded, he said.
      A K-9 unit from the Murray Police Department was also called to assist. A little less than a pound of marijuana was found in the house, along with several thousand dollars in cash next to the drugs, McLachlan said. He said there were also an undisclosed number of small children in the house."

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595046637,00.html

[MrBenchley]

6. Police: Local Motorist Shot, Crashes, Dies At Hospital (OH)

"The man's identity is not available, but investigators said when they first responded to the crash scene near the intersection of Central Parkway and Mohawk Street, they didn't realize the driver had been shot. The man crashed into Robin Imaging Services at 2106 Central Parkway shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday.
The man's gunshot wound wasn't discovered until he arrived at University Hospital, WLWT reported. He died a short time later.
Witnesses told police that they saw three men get out of the vehicle and leave the scene after it crashed. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040308/lo_wlwt/2040934

[MrBenchley]

7. Three Teens Questioned Following Fatal Shooting (IN)

"Three people were taken into custody Sunday in connection with a fatal shooting on the northwest side.
Dwight Brentz Jr., 19, Cory Lawson, 18, and an unidentified 17-year-old male were being held on preliminary charges of murder for the shooting death of 19-year-old Josh McAtee, police said.
Officials said a fight broke out at McAtee's home in the 2900 block of 79th Street when someone drove onto his lawn. A short time later, McAtee was shot in the head and chest in his pickup at 79th Street and Township Line Road, RTV6's Kristi Tedesco reported. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040308/lo_wrtv/2040861

[MrBenchley]

8. Information sought in fatal shooting of Lakeside man (CA)

"LAKESIDE – Detectives continued to search yesterday for clues in the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old Lakeside man at a mobile home park Thursday night.
Deputies arrived at the El Dorado Mobile Home Park on El Dorado Parkway near Business Route 8 about 9:30 p.m. after several residents reported gunshots. At the scene, authorities found the body of Phillippe McKinley Chavez.
No one has been arrested and no suspects had been identified, Sgt. Gary Haigh said."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040306-9999-news_2m6shot.html

[MrBenchley]

9. Officer says 2 plotted to kill teacher; gun found (CA)

"LEMON GROVE – Two Palm Middle School students who hid a gun on campus were arrested yesterday, suspected of plotting to shoot a teacher who had given one of the boys an "F," sheriff's officials said.
The 14-year-old who got the failing grade planned to wait until school was out, don a ski mask he had brought in a backpack and shoot the teacher, said sheriff's Lt. Dennis Ferons.
The other 14-year-old had taken a .25-caliber pistol and a fully loaded magazine from home a few days ago, Ferons said.
On March 5, 2001, Santana High student Andy Williams shot and killed two other students, Bryan Zuckor, 14, and Randy Gordon, 17, and wounded 13 other people. Williams was then 15. He is now serving a sentence of 50 years to life in prison. He took a handgun from home, knowing where his father kept the key to his locked gun cabinet."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040306-9999-news_6m6plot.html

[slackmaster]

10. The audacity of that teacher

Giving a kid an 'F'.

:shrug:

[MrBenchley]

11. Fourth Springfield shooting victim dies (TN)

"A fourth victim of Friday's shootings in Springfield has died, authorities said.
Paul Long, 49, was reported to have been shot at his car lot about 10:30 Friday morning and was taken with a ''very devastating'' head injury to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died yesterday.
Long and the three other Springfield businessmen who were slain Friday — Jerry Lam, Steve Head and Donnie Wilks — knew each other at least casually. They were found shot in different locations across the town within a three-hour period.
Investigators took yesterday off but planned to meet this morning to comb through evidence from four separate crime scenes and three completed autopsies. No information was available last night about whether an autopsy would be conducted on Long."

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/03/47961642.shtml?Element_ID=47961642

[MrBenchley]

12. Paramedic on leave now charged in shooting (TN)

"A Nashville Fire Department paramedic remained jailed yesterday after he shot a man in the leg during a dispute outside an Antioch restaurant, Metro police said.
Charles Michael Bean, 32, of Antioch faces felony charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment and is jailed in lieu of a $40,000 bond, police and court officials said.
The shooting victim, Christopher Jefferson, 31, of Lebanon was a bystander during a dispute in the parking lot outside the Courtyard Cafe where the shooting occurred at about 3 a.m. yesterday, said Metro police spokesman Don Aaron. Jefferson's injuries are not life-threatening, Aaron said.
Bean has a history of disciplinary actions within the Fire Department and had been placed on paid administrative leave last month, said Deputy Fire Chief Kim Lawson."

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/03/47919650.shtml?Element_ID=47919650

[MrBenchley]

13. Dodging bullets, realities (IN)

"Week before last, 75 senators in a test vote endorsed a stunning piece of legislation that would give the gun industry, alone in American business, immunity from a form of legal liability. The measure would forbid shooting victims, their families and local governments from asking courts to decide whether gun manufacturers and sellers negligently allowed deadly weapons to fall into the hands of criminals. The White House, which has made a campaign bogeyman of trial lawyers, gave its blessing to this gift, already passed by the House.
The Senate sent a message by passing both amendments. Twelve Republicans voted for one or the other. The White House, the NRA and the immunity bill's main sponsor, Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho (an NRA board member), sent a message back: Kill the whole thing.
But in the meantime, derailment of the immunity train has sparked celebrations among plaintiffs, including the city of Gary. Mayor Scott King has been fighting to keep alive a lawsuit that accuses several gun makers and sellers of negligently failing to check traffic to criminals, endangering his community.
"It continues to frighten me the degree of control the NRA exerts on certain people at all levels of government," King said, "but at the same time, I am pleased to think for perhaps the first time a bipartisan majority in the Senate has taken a stand on these issues. I think there's some hope for the future here." "

http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/127051-5449-021.html

[MrBenchley]

14. On product safety, the gun industry could learn from cars (IL)

"And I don't understand how the NRA, with President Bush's blessing, can argue that making the gun industry immune from lawsuits is good for the gun consumer.
The tobacco industry, which has paid millions of dollars to angry consumers, would have killed for that kind of immunity. Actually, the tobacco industry did kill, it just wasn't able to rally its victims into fighting to preserve the cigarette makers' profits.
After all, guns don't kill people - criminals and angry people and depressed people and stupid folks and drunks and careless people and curious kids and well-meaning-but-mistaken people and unsuspecting toddlers kill people.
The auto industry said safety cost too much, and that consumers would never shell out extra money for perks such as shoulder harnesses or air bags. But Nader and the consumers won that battle.
The NRA, stubbornly sticking to its guns, actually argues on its Web site that many of its precious guns are the same as they were 100 years ago. What other deadly product brags about not having made any safety advances in more than a century?"

http://www.dailyherald.com/oped/col_constable.asp?intID=38050182

[slackmaster]

15. Mr. Constable is misinformed about the liability protection bill

It would not make the gun industry immune from civil action aimed at product defects. He's completely out to lunch.

[CO Liberal]

16. Gun bill aims to hold manufacturers, dealers liable

Additional info on the swell industry NRA asshole Larry Craig was trying to protect. This srtical ran today, but it is about the bill that was killed last week, on the NRA's orders. - Wayne

Gun bill aims to hold manufacturers, dealers liable

By ELLYN FERGUSON
Gannett News Service

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WASHINGTON -- Hong Im Ballenger was shot to death in a Baton Rouge, La., parking lot two years ago as she left her small business. Police determined the bullet came from the same Bushmaster rifle used by two men now known as the D.C. snipers for 10 fatal shootings in the Washington, D.C., area.

James Ballenger, Hong Im's husband of 22 years, believes a bill pending in the Senate this week could kill a lawsuit that he and seven other families of sniper victims have pending in Washington state. They are suing Bull's Eye Shooter Supply of Tacoma, the gun dealer from whom D.C. sniper Lee Malvo stole the rifle, and Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., which sold the weapon to Bull's Eye.

"They should be able to face me in court," said James Ballenger, 57. "They failed to maintain security. They failed to maintain their records. Too many of the wrong people get their hands on guns."

Despite federal audits that documented 238 "missing" firearms and 52 other guns used in crimes, Bull's Eye was still in business when Malvo took the rifle in 2002.

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http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20040308/localnews/37387.html

[CO Liberal]

17. Gun ruling stymies counties (MO)

Thanks to the Nuts Ruining America, no one knows what the hell is going on in the Show Me State. - Wayne

* * * * *

Gun ruling stymies counties

By STEVE ROCK

The Kansas City Star

As political wrangling plods along in Jefferson City, sheriffs throughout Missouri feel hamstrung by the state's concealed weapons law.

Most of them are waiting for a key funding question to be resolved before issuing any permits. So far, in fact, perhaps as few as two permits have been issued statewide — one to the bill's House sponsor, the other to his wife.

Sheriffs appear to be heeding the advice of the Missouri Sheriff's Association and Attorney General Jay Nixon to hold off on issuing permits until the funding issue can be resolved.

“We've been advised not to do anything until the dust has settled,” said Maj. Roger Yates in the Clay County Sheriff's Department. “We're not accepting any applications until we get some direction from the state.”

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8131001.htm

[MrBenchley]

21. Remember, Missouri voters rejected this already

but the corrupt gun industrry and the GOP rammed it through anyway...

[CO Liberal]

18. Fourth man dies from shooting spree (TN)

More fun from those who pack heat. - Wayne

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Fourth man dies from shooting spree

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) - A fourth victim has died from a shooting spree that law enforcement officials believe may have been gambling related, authorities said.

Paul Long died at Vanderbilt Medical Center on Sunday from injuries suffered during the shootings, which occurred Friday in four different places in this town of 14,300. Long was shot at his downtown auto business.

Springfield Police have refused to say whether the shootings were connected.

"People say gambling is a victimless crime, this is a perfect example of why it's not," Carney told The Leaf-Chronicle newspaper.

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http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=1695431&nav=1ugFLMtu

[CO Liberal]

19. Lee County man charged with shooting sister (SC)

And yet another family made safer by guns ... NOT!!!! - Wayne

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Lee County man charged with shooting sister

(Lee County) March 8, 2004 - Lee County investigators say a man is charged with shooting his sister. They say it's the first shooting of the year in the county.

Investigators say 40-year-old Roosevelt Bradley shot his sister, Margie Bradley, 53, in the neck and head Sunday in southern Lee County off Lower Lee School Road in the Mayesville area.

She is in stable condition at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Police say Margie Bradley told them she was in the bathroom when her brother came in and accused her of throwing arrows at him. She told police her brother then shot her in the neck, then shot her again as she fled the bathroom.

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http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1695513&nav=0RaPLMx7

[CO Liberal]

20. Flint: Traffic crash leads to man's shooting death (MI)

Doncha feel SO much safer with all them guns out there? - Wayne

* * * * *

Flint: Traffic crash leads to man's shooting death

POLICE BLOTTER

THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION

Monday, March 08, 2004

By Ken Palmer
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A traffic accident led to a fatal shooting Sunday night in Flint, police said.

Reginald B. Johnson, 21, of Flint was dead on arrival at Hurley Medical Center after a 6 p.m. incident.

Police said Johnson and a youth, 17, were involved in a minor car accident on Elmridge Drive near Webster Road. The two men got out of their vehicles and began fighting, police said. The other man left the scene, went around the corner, got a rifle and came back shooting, police said.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1078763236270580.xml

[MrBenchley]

22. Three face charges in W.Va. 9 shooting

"MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Two Berkeley County men and a Pennsylvania man were charged Friday after a search warrant was issued in connection with a shooting along W.Va. 9 in December, West Virginia State Police said.
Troy Brammah, 29, of 52 Pluto Place, was charged with two counts of malicious wounding and aiding and abetting the distribution of crack cocaine, state police said.
The search warrant was executed after midnight Thursday at the house off Virgo Lane in Wildflower Estates east of Martinsburg to find Brammah, police said.
A handgun, a sawed-off shotgun, approximately $4,000 and large quantities of crack cocaine and marijuana were seized at the Pluto Place house, Senior Trooper J.D. Burkhart said. "

http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=74634&format=html

[MrBenchley]

23. Shooting in Clematis club prompts more patrols (FL)

"WEST PALM BEACH -- Mayor Lois Frankel said the city would increase police presence in response to yet another shooting in a Clematis Street club.
West Palm Beach police said 23-year-old Daniel Sephes of Riviera Beach was shot in the leg and back early Saturday inside the Nessun Dorma club. Sephes was recovering from his injuries and told police he did not know the shooter, Detective Lt. Mark Anderson said.
The two officers who responded found more than one person inside the club was armed. "

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/local_news_04a45a734388222c00ce.html

[MrBenchley]

24. DEP chief opposes new state bear hunt (NJ)

"Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bradley Campbell urged the state Fish and Game Council yesterday not to have another bear hunt in New Jersey this year.
The council, which controls hunting in the state, will discuss the bear hunt issue when it meets Tuesday. Campbell is arguing, in part, that the state must make good on a promise not to use hunting as an exclusive tool to manage the state's bear population.
"Administration of the hunt in the context of substantial public controversy severely limits the staff time and resources available for public education, bear feeding-ban enforcement and development of immunocontraceptive alternatives," Campbell wrote in a letter to the council. "

http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-5/107855704242650.xml?starledger?nnj

[MrBenchley]

25. Man seriously injured in shooting on I-680 (CA)

"CASTRO VALLEY - A passenger in a sedan was shot in the face Sunday on Interstate 680, and police arrested a suspect half an hour later on the Altamont Pass, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
Investigators are asking whether the shooting is related to a string of shootings two weeks ago on Interstate 580 between Castro Valley and San Leandro. But at first glance, that doesn't seem likely, said CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
Witnesses told the CHP that the Durango driver pulled up to a Mitsubishi sedan about 4:30 p.m. on I-680 near Mission Boulevard, Ziese said.
The driver fired into the Mitsubishi, which was carrying three men. The front passenger window and the driver-side window shattered."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8133878.htm

[MrBenchley]

26. Police Investigate Shooting In Harrisburg (PA)

"According to authorities, a man was shot at 4th and Seneca streets Friday night. He was taken to Harrisburg hospital.
There was no word on his condition. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040306/lo_wgal/2039294

[MrBenchley]

27. Man shot after two bump into each other (OH)

"It happens all the time -- a careless bump when two people try to exit and enter one door at the same time.
But on Sunday afternoon, police say that slight bit of contact between two strangers at a store provoked a fight that ended when one of the men returned home, grabbed a gun and shot the other man when he left the store a few minutes later.
``As silly as this sounds, it started over an accidental bumping,'' Akron Police Detective Richard Morrison said. ``And it just escalated.''
Police arrested Akron resident Michael McClanahan, 21, of the first block of Aqueduct Street, and his girlfriend, Amanda Hill-Wright, 23, of the same address, after the incident, which occurred at 12:11 p.m. Sunday outside the Baho Convenient Store, 460 W. Market St.
McClanahan is charged with two counts of attempted aggravated murder, carrying a concealed weapon, tampering with evidence, two felony counts of child endangering, vandalism and a misdemeanor count of misrepresentation."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/8133040.htm

[MrBenchley]

28. Former Alamogordo Basketball Star Faces Murder Charges (NM)

"On Thursday, an Otero County grand jury indicted Lenny Holly for attempted murder and tampering with evidence.
Police said Holly shot two men, killing one and injuring the other."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=375&ncid=375&e=6&u=/ibsys/20040305/lo_koat/2038163

[CO Liberal]

30. Any Jayson Williams Posters In His Room????

Just curious......

[MrBenchley]

31. How long before Jayson joins the NRA board

I wonder?

[CO Liberal]

32. They'll Hold Board Meetings At The Prison....

...so Jayson can attend.

:-)

[MrBenchley]

34. It's where a number of them belong....

By the way, did you see this example of the NRA's family values?

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-02-24-nugents-admits-paternity_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA

[CO Liberal]

35. As George Carlin Once Said...

...ever notice the people who yell the loudest about "family values" are the ones who have families that you can rope off and charge admission to look at?

:-)

[MrBenchley]

37. LOL!!

[slackmaster]

42. Another relevant comment by George Carlin

Ever notice how whenever there is a senseless shooting some folks want to take guns away from the people who DIDN'T DO IT?

[CO Liberal]

43. SOME Folks, Slack....NOT ALL Folks!!!!!!!

I'll post this again for your benefit.....

"GUN CONTROL" DOES NOT EQUAL "GUN CONFISCATION".

No matter how many times pro-gunners try to make that connection.

[MrBenchley]

29. Killing of man at party stuns family, friends (MD)

Andre Summers never much cared for going out on the town.
The 31-year-old computer technician preferred spending quiet nights at his Bowie townhouse with his fiancee, who is eight months' pregnant.
In recent months, the two would spend hours watching baby shows on the Discovery Health Channel and thinking of names for their firstborn child. They settled on Aria.
"Andre was truly about family," said his fiancee, Adoria Doucette.
On Feb. 28, Summers was fatally shot as he defended his younger sister at a party in Crofton, according to witnesses. They said he had gone outside to help Michele Summers escort her former boyfriend, Anthony Lane, and a companion, Nathaniel Campbell, from a party at her home that they had crashed."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.sister08mar08,0,2120531.story?coll=bal-local-arundel

[MrBenchley]

33. Teen Pulled Gun From Jeans While Handcuffed (OH)

"Several police officers had the chance to frisk a handcuffed teenager before he reached into his jeans and prompted a shootout over the weekend, according to Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher.
The 17-year-old has been charged with attempted murder and felonious assault, WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Courtis Fuller reported.
Streicher said the teen already was in custody when he reached into the groin area of his baggy pants and pulled out his gun in South Fairmount Saturday night. An innocent bystander was hit by a bullet, and when officers returned fire, the teen was hit as well. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=410&ncid=410&e=2&u=/ibsys/20040308/lo_wlwt/2041497

[MrBenchley]

36. Ball State student was shot to death (IN)

"A Ball State University student from Carmel was killed by a gunshot to the head, the Delaware County coroner's office ruled today.
Karl Harford, a 20-year-old Ball State sophomore who graduated from Carmel High School in 2002, was found dead in the back seat of his parents' 1993 Mercury car early Sunday following a party near the campus, said Muncie Police Deputy Chief Terry Winters.
Police did not have any suspects.
Harford was shot in the head before being placed into the car, which was found 2 miles from the party on the city's east side, Winters said. The car had been driven into a utility pole, then crashed into a garbage can, Winters said."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/127577-1957-093.html

[MrBenchley]

38. Police Investigate Conroe Couple's Death (TX)

Yet ANOTHER family made safer by guns...

"Detectives said a 70-year-old man shot his 65-year-old wife before turning the gun on himself.
The couple's daughter said she returned home from work around 6 p.m. and saw the shooting happen through a window."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=320&ncid=320&e=10&u=/ibsys/20040308/lo_kprc/2041115

[MrBenchley]

39. Wife Charged In Husband's Death (TX)

A Pasadena woman was charged Sunday with murder for allegedly killing her husband.
Police said Yolaine George Pouhe gunned down Albert Pouhe inside their home on Elmgrove Park at Kirby Place Sunday morning.
Investigators said the wife shot her husband four times.
The couple's son came home from Dallas as soon as he heard about the deadly shooting. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=320&ncid=320&e=11&u=/ibsys/20040308/lo_kprc/2041087

[MrBenchley]

40. Police: Mandarin Gunfire May Be Related To Other Crimes (FL)

Yeah, America really needs more assault rifles on the market...NOT.

"Police are looking for the gunmen they believe opened fire with assault rifles at a Mandarin apartment complex at about 6 a.m. Sunday, and residents said they wouldn't feel comfortable again until the suspects are caught.
No one was hurt, but as many as 20 rounds riddled the Mandarin Pine Apartments on Sunbeam Road with bullet holes. The shots were reportedly aimed at two men visiting the apartment complex.
Investigators are now looking at Sunday's shooting in Mandarin and considering possible connections between it and other unsolved crimes around town. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=422&ncid=422&e=1&u=/ibsys/20040308/lo_wjxt/2041150

[MrBenchley]

41. How did two Newport News student athletes become entangled in a brutal col

"In 2001, Chavis L. Holloman was a senior at Menchville High School, captain of the basketball team and homecoming king. That same year, Ishmael K. Stewart was a senior at Woodside High School and a standout on the football team.
In the fall of 2002, the two athletes, who knew each other casually, left Newport News for Virginia State University near Petersburg.
Today, Holloman and Stewart are behind bars in the Petersburg City Jail. One is charged with murder, the other with malicious wounding in the same deadly attack. Neither student had ever been in trouble with the law before.
Their lives and reputations have been shattered by the charges that they were part of a mob that killed a fellow student last October. In the lobby of an off-campus housing complex, Anthony Cage was attacked by a group of young men who kicked and punched him repeatedly. In the midst of the melee, Cage was also stabbed in the lung and shot in the heart."

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