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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 19

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Nov. 2, 1983 THE DES MOINES REGISTER 3M Luck turns two hurt in bad for police family; sSiootings this year BRANDEfe By TOM ALEX Rffhftr STtff Wrttar i As the daughter of a Des-Moines police officer, Cindy Slauson grew up learning about the hazards of police fii-nlitMn work. Tliere were a lot of close calls in yean gone by, but some of the luck ran out this year. Her father, Des Moines Police Sgt. Garey Bryan, was wounded in a shootout in May, and her husband, a Shreveport, police officer, was guys who do it to be able to understand it." Of the 827 officers in the Des Moines Police Department, her father was the only one injured by gunfire this year.

Of the 400 officers on the Shreveport Police Department, only her husband has been hit by gunfire this year. husband was taken out of intensive care on Tuesday afternoon. "One pellet pierced his eye but the other eye was untouched," she said. "There's quite a bit of facial damage, and around the neck and shoulders. And there's going to be a lot more reconstructive surgery.

yt "But he's looking a whole lot better," she said. Read any good books lately? and an officer in a helicopter. They were caught the next morning and charged with attempted murder. Officials said the three men, all 18, are from "upper middle-class homes." Ross said, "Slauson has several good things on his record here. He's a credit to the police department." Cindy Slauson's father, Sgt.

Garey Bryan, was hit in the arm during a police shootout with Emily McQueen, 32, wanted for terrorism and going armed with intent. She was killed in the gun battle. After recovering from his wound, Bryan was assigned to the internal affairs unit He's in Shreveport now with his daughter and her husband. "My father has been in a lot of shaky situations," said Cindy Slauson. "Everyone in my family is so dedicated to their work.

It's what they are happiest doing. It has an' element of danger in it and they all know it. But you have to know the DENNIS SLAUSON iiidW a in i waTcnrorour Super Sale book in Lightning damages tower Tht Rtoittir't towi Ntwi Strvlc FAIRFIELD, IA. Damage to the Department of Public Safety's communications center near Fairfield was extensive after it was struck by lightning late Monday. today's paper save! Strain cars jump tracks seriously wounded in a shootout there Sunday.

"It's been a heck of a year," she said from Willis Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport Tuesday. "My brother is a Polk County sheriff's deputy," she said. "I hope he takes it easy the next couple months. This isn't our year." Slauson's husband, Dennis "Mac" Slauson, 28, formerly of Grimes, was hit in the face by a shotgun blast. "At first they didn't have much hope for his left eye," Cindy Slauson, 26, said.

"But he's been doing much better the last couple of days." Shreveport Police Lt. Larry Ross, in a telephone interview, said officer Slauson was shot by one of three young men wanted for breaking into cars at a Shreveport apartment complex. Slauson spotted a pickup truck matching the description of the youths' vehicle. As he approached to question the driver, a man lying in the bed of the pickup raised up and fired at him. Slauson managed to get to the radio in his car and call for help.

The three suspects into a woods, hunted during the night by 100 area law enforcement officers, dogs By TOM SUK Rwlitw Staff Wrttw Eight cars of a 42-car North Western Railway freight train derailed in northern Polk County Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries, and au-' thorities said no hazardous materials were spilled. "One of the tank cars carries a highly flammable material, but it was empty at the time and there was no spillage," Lt. Randy Cross of the Polk County Sheriff's Department said. The derailment occurred' in the 1700 block of Sixty-sixth Avenue about 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, authorities said. One railroad crossing on Northeast Sixty-sixth Avenue was blocked and was expected to remain blocked most of the night. However, Cross said it was hoped that the crossing would be cleared by this morning. Four of the derailed cars landed on their sides one of them a hopper car that spilled soybeans, authorities said. The cause of the derailment of the southbound freight was under investigation late Tuesday.

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