St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 24

3DEC 71995 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1995 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 7A POLICECOURTS Missouri Executes Killer Who Turned To Religion The following incidents were among those that were reported to police departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area or that involved action in one of the area's courts: St. Louis: Larry Tucker, 43, of the 4200 block of West Evans Avenue, was fatally shot by two masked men at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.

The men confronted three of Tucker friends on his porch, then went inside and shot Tucker in his back and left side, said police. Tucker had an extensive police record. MISCELLANEOUS Richmond Heights: A gas leak about noon Wednesday forced the evacuation of the University Club Tower, 1034 South Brentwood Boulevard. Workers installing a lawn sprinkler system in front of the 23-story building hit a gas line. Fumes seeped into the building.

About 400 people had to be evacuated by using the stairs. Four people were taken to the hospital after becoming ill from the fumes. The building was reopened about 4 p.m. South St. Louis County: A boy, 11, was caught with a revolver about 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday at Robert Sperreng Middle School, 12111 Tesson Ferry Road, in the Lindbergh School District. A gymnasium worker found a revolver under a jacket. When the boy picked up the gun and jacket, he was detained. The gun was unloaded, but the boy's jacket pocket contained three bullets. The boy, a sixth-grader, said he was carrying it for protection not at Sperreng.

but for when he returned to his neighborhood in St. Louis. The boy was turned over to his parents; juvenile charges may be filed. School officials said the youth was suspended for 10 days and might be expelled. COURT ACTIONS Jennings: A jury convicted Tiawuan Doriety on Wednesday of 18 various charges of sexual assault in attacks that spanned two months in 1993.

Doriety, 20, of Jennings, faces life terms in prison when Circuit Judge Daniel Tillman sentences him Feb. 9. Seven women were the victims of Doriety and Anthony Eans in 1993. Eans, 21, of the 4400 block of Bircher Boulevard, was convicted this summer and sentenced in August to four life terms for rape, sodomy, robbery, armed criminal action and kidnapping. The attacks took place in an area bounded by Interstate 70, St.

Louis Avenue, Lamb-din Avenue and Marcus Avenue. The victims were between the ages of 1 5 and 51 spokesman Tim Kniest. Kniest said O'Neal visited with a minister and his attorney, Michael J. Gorla, and talked with his wife by telephone during the day. In a last-ditch effort to stop the execution, Gorla had sought a stay from the U.S.

Supreme Court on Tuesday, but it was denied without comment by a 9-0 vote. The office of Gov. Mel Carnahan notified the prison shortly after midnight that clemency would not be granted. 1 O'Neal was first sentenced to life in prison after, at 17, he killed a 78-year-old man in a burglary in Strafford, in southwest Missouri. Then, in February 1984, he killed Arthur Dade in a prison walkway, stabbing him four times with an ice pick.

BANK ROBBERIES Brentwood: Police arrested a man on suspicion of robbing the Roosevelt Bank, 2233 South Brentwood Boulevard, about 4 p.m. Wednesday. After the robbery, the man tried to flee from police by traveling east on Highway 40 (Interstate 64). He was involved in a wreck at Hampton and Oakland avenues and was taken into custody. VIOLENT DEATHS St.

Louis: Drummond Mahr, 25, of the 2300 block of South Compton Avenue, was fatally shot in his home at 8:23 p.m. Tuesday. Police said Mahr who was shot once in the chest and once in the cheek and had a puncture wound in his hand had been upset about breaking up with his girlfriend. Police were searching for her Wednesday. iHimiwuiliMli mm iiiiiaiiiniiiim i iiiin i hi i mi i i mi mi inn minimum ipiwiniHi i win nwniiiinniiiii iiiipin mini mi mi nm 11 i i il, 1 1 mi I i i milium it, vmmmmmmnmmmMtmm mi npimwi ippiiiii ii hi mill i i mi i urn i SLlkaoE? te ffasj iff gavjgi i 1 1 i war Mat'iiiittJ- ill ilWftiiiiiliiiii ii I IWBrtTftWillitt Si sCto p' 7 i D) i jj 1 NLiT V' mumim mmmtkmrnJ "mH I i 1 I ri 1.

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"Praise the Lord in the name of Jesus," O'Neal told prison officials shortly before his execution. "I forgive everybody involved in this. Jesus is my Lord." Covered with a white sheet and wearing his thick glasses, O'Neal mouthed words to his wife, Lynn, watching from a separate room, just before the drugs were administered. O'Neal stopped talking and closed his eyes within seconds of the announcement by prison officials at 12:15 a.m.lhat the first of the drugs had been administered. He was pronounced dead two minutes later.

O'Neal had fasted all day and declined a final meal Tuesday night, said Department of Corrections Educator Denies Nepotism Judge Hearing Case In Rockwood District By William C. Lhotka Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Rockwood School Board President Michael Corley Sr. believes a nepotism charge filed against him over the h'ring of his son as a physical education teacher was part of a conspiracy to force him off the board. Corley testified Wednesday that "there definitely were people trying to get rid of me from the School Board I was the swing vote." The case was argued before St. Louis County Senior Judge Herb La sky.

Corley said he had abstained from voting on Aug. 26, 1993, to hire his son, Michael Corley as a teacher at Babler Elementary School. Babler's principal, David Hensley, testified that he had attended that School Board meeting and had heard Corley Sr. abstain. But former board members Peggy Ashton and Janet Puis said they had heard Corley Sr.

vote for his son's employment. Board secretary Ann Hanekamp and former Rockwood Superintendent Dennis Peterson also said Corley voted affirmatively. Lasky gave lawyers for Attorney General Jay Nixon and Corley until Dec. 20 to submit written arguments over whether Corley should remain on the School Board or be removed from office. Corley was elected to the board in April 1993.

His term expires next year. He is a principal at St. Richard's School on Schuetz Road in west St. Louis county. In a split vote, the seven-member School Board decided last year against renewing Peterson's contract; he had served the district as superintendent since 1989.

Corley was one of the members who voted against him. Three months later, Nixon brought the nepotism suit against Corley. Peterson said he was "especially surprised and somewhat shocked when Mr. Corley voted for hiring his son. I felt it was a conflict of interest.

I was unaware at the time of the nepotism provision in the Missouri Constitution." Hanekamp, the board secretary, said she had recorded Corley as voting affirmatively. Later, board member Steve Smith asked Hanekamp to alter the meeting's minutes to show Corley had abstained. Smith testified Wednesday that he didn't remember making that request. Hensley, the principal where Corley Jr. teaches, had attended the meeting in August 1993 because the contracts of Corley Jr.

and other new teachers for his school were on the agenda. He said he remembers Corley Sr. abstaining from the vote on his son. Corley's attorney said that the board has been divided into two factions and that the allegations against Corley were politically motivated. Monet Exhibition Seen By 965,000 1 1995, Reuters News Service CHICAGO A Claude Monet retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago drew 965,000 visitors and had an economic impact of $393 million on the Chicago area, officials said Wednesday.

"This really went beyond our expectations," said James Wood, president of the institute. He called the show the most successful and popular ticketed exhibit in the history of his museum, and perhaps any other. The sold-out show, the largest exhibit of the French impressionist's works mounted anywhere, ran from July 22 to Nov. 26. Wood said the institute made a $5 million profit from the show after covering its costs.

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