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DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE DemocratandChronicle.com FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011 5A Six dead in Arizona shootings BOB CHRISTIE and AMANDA LEE MYERS The Associated Press YUMA, Ariz. A 73-year-old man's shooting rampage in towns near the Arizona border left six people dead Thursday, including the suspect and the attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce. Police said Carey Hal Dyess also wounded one person in the shootings around Yuma, a city of about 200,000, before he was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound nearly six hours after the first shots were fired. The lawyer was killed while packing up his office on his last day of work. "This is not a random act," Yuma Police Chief Jerry Geier said.

"These victims were targeted." Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden said the first shooting was reported shortly after 5 a.m. in Well-ton, about 25 miles east of Yuma. A woman was in critical condition at a Phoenix hospital. He said Dyess then fatally shot four people around town before driving to Yuma and killing promi off a street and to lock down the nearby county courthouse and some schools. Those buildings were later reopened.

Gov. Jan Brewer said she was "horrified" at the news and expressed sympathy for the victims' families. "Many questions remain unanswered at this point, but I know that law enforcement and investigators will be working to piece together this tragedy in the days ahead," she said in a statement. "In the meantime, this cruel violence has left a void in our hearts." from a witness who spoke to the police about what happened inside the office. "They said the shooter came in and told the secretary to 'Get out of Florez said.

"She did, and he shot Jerry Shelley and he left." A man and woman were found dead in a small farm house outside the nearby town of Wellton, said Yuma police Sgt. John Otero. The tree-shaded home was set back about 100 feet from a highway, with a cow pasture in front. The downtown shooting prompted officials to block Kidnapped girl I afraid rnm it I I I I aW I si 3X9 nent attorney Jerrold Shelley at about 9:20 a.m. The bodies in Wellton were found between 8:20 and 9:45 a.m.

Police believe Dyess drove back toward Wellton, pulled over and fatally shot himself. His body was found at 10:47 a.m. inside a vehicle. Shelley was killed in his downtown law office. Shelley represented Dyess' ex-wife in their 2006 divorce, which was Dyess' fifth.

Vida Florez, a Yuma attorney who knew Shelley, said she learned of the shooting after leaving court. She said she heard was too the day. Dugard did not attend the sentencing, saying she refused to "waste another second" in the presence of the married couple she said stole her life. Phillip Garrido, 60, a serial sex offender, was ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison and his 1 It i 1 A I I i ii i I i I tfef if ISA V. 4 1 Taken at 11 by Calif, couple, she was raped, held hostage 18 years USALEFF The Associated Press PLACERVILLE, Calif.

-A woman who was kidnapped, raped and held captive for 18 years was so afraid of her abductors that she never tried to escape, according to court documents released Thursday. Jaycee Dugard said in testimony to a grand jury that she was zapped with a stun gun while being taken from a South Lake Tahoe street at age 11 and kept under a blanket as she was driven to the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Dugard said she heard a man laughing as he said: "I can't believe we got away with it." At his home, Phillip Garrido threatened to use the stun gun on her again and said he had vicious dogs that would attack her if she left the property, she jzJ Phillip Garrido watches as his wife Nancy leaves the courtroom after being sentenced for her role in the 1 991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard. rich pedronceluthe associated press wife, Nancy, 55, was given a decades-long sentence. The feelings the now 31-year-old victim had never been able to express while she was held prisoner did make it into court.

"I chose not to be here today because I refuse to waste another second of my life in your presence," 'A' Vf fill 111 AT A GLANCE U.S. teen shot, killed at Costa Rica hotel SAN JOSE, Costa Rica-A 16-year-old U.S. high school student was shot and killed at a Costa Rican hotel by a security guard who mistook him for a thief, authorities said Thursday. High school senior Justin Johnston of McLouth, Kansas, was shot in the chest before dawn Thursday at the La Cangreja Lodge hotel in the city of La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rican police said in a statement. The security guard, who was identified as a 34-year-old man by the last name of Guevara, has been detained, police said.

WORLD China explosion: Authorities say an explosion at a factory making aluminum products in northwestern China has killed at least four people and injured 16. Two more workers were listed as missing. The explosion early Thursday ripped apart a workshop at the Xinjiang Yuan-sheng Technology Development Ltd. factory outside the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi. Wales explosion: An explosion caused a fire at a Chevron oil refinery in Wales on Thursday, killing four contractors and seriously injuring another worker, the company said.

Chevron spokesman Sean Comey said the blaze was extinguished. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the explosion at the refinery, which employs 1,400 workers. Group suicide: Police say four South Koreans have been found dead in an apparent group suicide. Police say the bodies of two men and two women in their 20s were found Thursday in a parked van in Seongju, about 190 miles southeast of Seoul. Japan politics: Prime Minister Naoto Kan defeated a no-confidence motion Thursday over his handling of Japan's triple disasters, but the victory may be short lived he said he is willing to resign once the country's recovery kicks in.

Cholera: An international aid group says clinics in one section of the Haitian capital are seeing a sharp rise in cholera, with more than 300 new cases per day. NATION N.J. Gov. to pay for helicopter trips TRENTON, N.J.-After a firestorm of criticism, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie changed his mind Thursday and decided that he and the Republican Party would reimburse the state for his personal use of a state police helicopter, which includes two trips to watch his oldest son's baseball games.

Saying that he didn't want it to be a distraction, a spokeswoman for Christie said the governor paid the state a total of $2,151 to cover the cost of two trips in which he flew from Trenton to see his son's baseball games one in Montvale on Friday and one near the governor's home in Mendham on Tuesday. Flooding: Flood-threatened neighborhoods of the South Dakota capital and its sister city across the swollen Missouri River largely emptied on Thursday as residents heeded calls to leave for higher ground ahead of the planned release of water from upstream dams. Most of the approximately 3,000 people living in low-lying areas of Pierre and Fort Pierre had left homes, and others loading their belongings onto pickup trucks said they'd be gone by Gov. Dennis Daugaard's unofficial deadline of 8 p.m. Gays in military: The Air Force has discharged a service member under the law banning gays from serving openly in the military.

It's the first firing since President Barack Obama signed legislation to end the ban, which is just months from being lifted. The Associated Press mmmmummmmmmmmmmm i'AfiS -f, j. Kj. oV'i i'ViT wi'm in to run Dugard said in a statement read aloud by her mother, the first public comments about her experience since police found her 22 months ago. "As I think of all of those years I am angry because you stole my life and that of my family.

"Everything you have ever done to me has been wrong and someday I hope you can see that," she wrote, directing her words to Phillip Garrido. "I hated every second of every day of 18 years because of you and the sexual perversion you forced on me." Her mother had her own words for the couple: "The only satisfaction I know is that you will never lay eyes on my daughter again." Dugard was abducted by the couple as her stepfather watched her walk toward a school bus in June 1991. She was kept in the backyard compound and gave birth to two daughters, the first when she was 14, fathered by Phillip Garrido. The couple, dressed in orange jumpsuits, made no eye contact with anyone and kept their heads down as the letter was read. IDRItiE miracles.

Join us in 1 '1 A A school shows its damage from a tornado in Springfield, 1 Yi If Mass. Tornadoes hit the state Wednesday, killing at least 3 and injuring 200. jessica hiuthe associated press Mass. digs out from aftermath of twisters Dugard was later locked inside a backyard studio without being allowed to leave for an entire year. During later years, she felt helpless because she didn't know where she would go if she escaped.

The document was released after the Garridos were sentenced earlier in the dead was a mother who shielded her teenage daughter as they huddled in a bathtub. But in many cases, doing the right thing quickly helped save lives. Inside Adams Hometown Market in the picturesque village of Monson, produce manager Frank Calabrese made a quick decision that helped keep customers and employees from coming to harm. In a move recalling a famous video from the recent deadly tornado in Missouri that documented shoppers' terrifying moments inside a convenience store cooler, Calabrese herded them into a walk-in freezer, where six to eight endless minutes passed while the building shook and windows shattered. "What else are we going to do?" he said.

"We sat inside and waited it out." No one in the store suffered a scratch. The storms hit as many people headed home from work Wednesday, paralyzing motorists who could see the twister coming at them. A fixed television camera caught dramatic images of a debris-filled tunnel cloud crossing the Connecticut River and slamming into Springfield, a working-class city of about 140,000 residents, where it cut a swath of destruction 10 blocks wide in some spots. Children's Miracle Network 0 Hospitals When you donate to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, you help kids at Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong get the care they need. RUSSELL CONTRERAS, DAVID COLLINS and STEPHEN SINGER The Associated Press MONSON, Mass.

-The sight of flattened homes, peeled-off roofs and the toppled steeple of a 140-year-old church stunned New Englanders after deadly tornadoes swept through Massachusetts, striking an area of the country that rarely sees such severe twisters. The storms, which came with fair warning but still shocked with their intensity, killed at least three people, injured about 200 and wreaked damage in a string of 18 cities and villages across central and western Massachusetts. If the National Weather Service agrees Wednesday's three deaths are tornado-related, it would bring the year's U.S. toll to 522 and make this year the deadliest for tornadoes since 1950. The highest recorded toll was 519 in 1953; four deaths from Joplin, that were added Thursday tied the record.

There were deadlier years before 1950, but those counts were based on estimates. Tornadoes are not un heard of in New England the downtown of Connecticut's largest city was devastated by one last June so many people heeded warnings. That didn't guarantee their survival; among Walmart With us, its personal. Friendly Markets idi( Onions Foresters Democrat (flinmtde media group A GANNETT COMPANY Join these sponsors to support your Children's Miracle Network Hospitals SmsiriSotircc Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and NewsCorporation have teamed up to create the world's largest online collection of of hope by finding Give Miracles on Facebook. spreading a message DC-00M24.