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The Back Page A14 Friday, February 26, 1993 Rockland Journal-News THE NATION The Accu-Weather forecast for noon, Friday, Feb. 26. 10 -Oe 0 10s2Oe30e40e50s60s70eeoe0s 100a 110 Todays Mostly cloudy and cold. II I iG I I Chance of afternoon light snow. -4J I 1 High.

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las i in In' 1, 11I PUTNAM Central Valley 2308 i viwniywnmj I rx I a 1 cold WARM STATIONARY HL E3 ESI HU E3 man low showers rain tstorus flurries 1 as Snow on Plains to Appalachians The Associated Press Snow was scattered from the Rockies to the Appalachians yes-, terday, with a threat of heavy snow in the Ohio Valley, and rain and thunderstorms spread over parts of the South. At midday, snow was falling in the Rockies, the middle Missouri Valley, the middle Mississippi Valley, much of the lower Ohio Valley, the Tennessee Valley, and the central and southern Appalachians. The srorm had already dropped up to 12 inches of snow around Kansas City, 11 inches at Columbia, 8 to 12 inches in southern Illinois; and 9 in West Virginia. Hundreds of schools were closed or dismissed early in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia and South Carolina. THE WORLD a lVifiAMIrf Panic kill yffA 2512 r-eeKSKHI Cil I 2509 1 rnrm'nirm 24io rfT 'Vi 1 2206 1 VX 2713 WESTCHESTER Monroe Southfields Tuxedo Park BERGEN Ramsey a) KIDS CORNER NEW JERSEY Yesterday Today Tomorrow Yesterday Today Tomorrow HILaPrc HILeSky MLotky HILoPrc HLotkv MLetky.

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cities, enter the area code. For foreign cities, enter the first three letters of the city's name. TRAVEL crmsH 3T LO 2 II 20 CLOUDY AND COLD: Today's weather drawing is by Nicole Serino, a sixth-grader at Immaculate Conception elementary in Stony Point. Today's forecast Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain Cloudy Cloudy Snow revenge was motive in St. Valentine's Day 0 1993 Aoou-Wealher, Inc.

EZ3 snow ice sunny pt. cloudy clouoy II 49 II 67 44 massacre pects. Lopez, the first suspect snared in the multiple killing, was arrested Wednesday as he arrived Bronx Criminal Court for an ap pearance on a prior drug arrest. He faces 150 years to life in prison if convicted on the murder charg-es. A block away and two hours, later, Mrs.

Casellas walked into the courthouse building and was -shot to death by Gilbert Ortiz, who'i was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Ortiz then wounded Ramos be- fore running out toward the Grand Concourse, police said. A court officer shot Ortiz when the suspect allegedly turned the gun on him. Ortiz, who was struck in the 1 arm, remained in stable condition, Thursday at Harlem Hospital, said Hamilton. Police believe he was friend of Santiago looking to avenge the St.

Valentine's Day slayings, said Borrelli. office building at Duane Street and Broadway, two blocks north of City Hall and adjacent to the courthouses of Foley Square. The rediscovery touched off demonstrations and prayer vigils and candlelight ceremonies calling for a halt to dese- cration of sacred ground. LOCKS Leather interior far interior a rt Si Pnuu A-i Police say The Associated Press NEW YORK A man whose wife was gunned down in a Bronx courthouse this week was accused yesterday of plotting the St. Valentine's Day massacre of six people in the Bronx to avenge his wife's beating while he was in jail.

And the man accused of gunning down Anthony Casellas' wife on Wednesday apparently did so to avenge a friend killed in the Feb. 14 massacre, Chief of Detectives Joseph Borrelli said. "Revenge is the motive going through this whole thing," Borrelli told reporters. The two sensational murders were revealed to be intertwined after police arrested Casellas less than 24 hours after his wife, Lourdes, was killed at lunchtime at the Bronx County Building. She was accompanying her husband to a court appearance on drug charges.

Casellas, 21, was behind bars on Rikers Island last August when his wife was severely beaten by killing of six Lourdes Casellas, accompanying her husband to a court hearing, is shot to death inside the courthouse doors to avenge the St. Valentine's Day slayings, police say. Anthony Casellas escapes injury, Luis Ramos, 17, is shot in the arm. A suspect is wounded and arrested; he is reportedly a friend of Santiago. Feb.

25, 1993: Anthony Casellas, Ramos and two other suspects are arrested and charged in the St. Valentine's Day slayings. Casellas is identified as the organizer and likely gunman. Th Associated Press a drug war between Santiago and Casellas, Borrelli said, "I'm not saying that didn't happen. I'm not discounting that." Casellas had four arrests in the last five years, including a 1987 ter's field, used for the remains of blacks, poor whites and British soldiers.

Mayor David Dinkins, the city's first black mayor, said the landmark designation "ensures that the African Burial Ground and all that it symbolizes are preserved and memorialized for future gen SKIES Sunrise: 6:35 a.m. Sunset: 5:44 p.m. Moonrise: 8:01 a.m. p.m. What, when in A glance at the key dates and times in seven related Bronx murders.

August 1992: Lourdes Casellas is assaulted in the Bronx, allegedly by Edwin Santiago. Her husband Anthony is in jail at the time. Feb. 14, 1993: Six people, including Santiago, are shot to death inside a Bronx apartment as retaliation for the attack on Lourdes, police say. Feb.

24, 1993, 10:30 a.m.: Elliot Lopez, 18, is arrested and charged with the six murders. Feb. 24, 1993, 12:30 p.m.: time after his release, said Borrelli, "he gets the cooperation of the people charged and arranges to extract his revenge." Asked if the beating and the subsequent shootings were part of William E. Davis Jr. He said they "lived, died and were buried within their community, which has been largely unacknowledged in historical studies of the Colonial world." The burial ground was started in Colonial days and was closed about 1790.

It was a kind of pot 80 ROUTE TAURUS GL 4-DRS. Your Choice-Equipped Air Bag Power Windows AMFM Cassette Air Conditioned VIN 5821, Rental Speed Control Tilt Wheel Power Locks Automatic ODfive 32,944 Miles I iff7 fiEra ZT5 18th-century African Burial Ground designated NYC landmarl another man. Casellas' anger led to the massacre in the Bronx, said Borrelli. Three other suspects in the Valentine's Day slayings at a drug-infested apartment house were arrested overnight. One, Luis Ramos, 17, was a youth wounded at the courthouse.

Another, Elliot Lopez, 18, of the Bronx, was arrested Wednesday and charged with six counts of murder in the massacre. Detectives believe Lopez and Casellas most likely were the gunmen in the Valentine's slayings, Borrelli said. He said detectives suspect that the victim who beat up Mrs. Casellas was Edwin Santiago. Whether the gunmen went to the apartment planning to kill all or some of the other five people remained unclear, he said.

Some, he said, might merely have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Borrelli said that after she was beaten, Mrs. Casellas visited her husband at Rikers Island. Some- any governmental agency or pri vate owner who wishes to make changes within the area must go to the Landmarks Commission for review and approval. The burial ground "serves as a memorial to a people who came to America in bondage rather than by choice," said commission member AMFM Cassette I Dual Power seaxs interior '92 Deluxe fSgr Miles, Ren charge for possession of a controlled substance, said police spokesman Sgt.

Norris Hollomon. He was jailed on a drug charge at the time his wife was beaten. Lopez, who was ordered held without bail Thursday, was arrested just two hours before Mrs. Casellas took a single bullet to the head inside the front door of the courthouse. Ramos was arrested Thursday while in Harlem Hospital; he was later released into police custody, said hospital spokeswoman Pamela Hamilton.

The bodies of the six victims were found early Feb. 14, face down in the living room of an apartment at 645 Prospect Ave. in the Mott Haven section. Each had been shot in the head. Besides Ramos, the other St.

Valentine's Day suspects arrested overnight were Luis Romero, 19, and Edgardo Rosado, 18. Casellas and the three other Bronx suspects were arrested at different locations. A 9mm handgun was also recovered from one of the sus- erations." He said the discovery of the cemetery has already "opened an important window into the lives of New York's earliest African residents." The burial ground was partially uncovered two years ago during excavation for a 34-story federal cassette Dual Power Seats i 'vrreof as a. Til ui VIN 's 0580, 0574 I id -w rvety 51 The Associated Press NEW YORK The 18th-century African Burial Ground, hidden by the city's concrete until it was accidentally exposed in an excavation two years ago, was designated a city landmark yesterday. The designation means that 92 CONTINENTALS 5555 5 ST irwrrr 304, NANUET 624-3600 '92 MUSTANG LX Power endows I Qned Control Round -rrXntAnna nor Mirrors Ornate Ctrt.

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