South Florida Sun Sentinel from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 8

LOCAL MS Thursday, May 3, 2001 3B South Florida Sun-Sentinel Miami police Shooting Officers tuv to ease fear. Digest STAFF REPORTS Fort Lauderdale Police seek help in search for woman Police are looking for anyone who can help them locate a 54-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman missing since December. Colleen "How can you fear for your life when somebody is running from you, not toward you." VICTORCURRY PRESIDENT, SOUTH FLORIDA CHAPTER OFTHE NAACP reportedly lived. Some neighbors said Singleton lived in the Overtown area of Miami, but stayed with relatives in the neighborhood. Some teens who occasionally hung out with Singleton said he was not a carthief.

"If he knew the car was stolen, he wouldn't have gotten into it," said Jason Williams, 14. Demetrius Jones, 15, said the whole incident was "messed up." "They didn't have to shoot him, especially if he didn't pull out a gun on them," he said. 4 when somebody is running from you, not toward you," said Victor Curry, president of the South Florida chapter of the NAACP and one of the participants in the meeting. The meeting was arranged by the police department to "just sort of send a message that we are the community's police department and that the community not only has a stake in what we do but also has a say in what we do," Moss said. Singleton was one of four people in the Jeep that an officer tried to pull over near Northwest Third Avenue and 10th Street, but the driver led officers on a chase for a few blocks, police said.

Singleton and Gil Falcon, 19, abandoned the Jeep and took off on foot with officers in pursuit, police said. Singleton was shot to death and Falcon was arrested for grand theft auto. Two girls who were also in the 1 1 C.J.. Wood's relatives in Ohio first reported her missing in early February to police in Green Cove Springs, a northern Florida town where she had her mail sent. When they Community leaders question deadly force By Madeline Baro Diaz MIAMI BUREAU miami Police officials and community leaders met on Wednesday to discuss the death of an unarmed teenager shot by police.

Nicholas Alexis Singleton, 1 8, was killed Monday night after a car chase. The Jeep he was in had been stolen in an armed carjacking, police said, and Singleton was allegedly running from officers at the time. The teen was shot once, although officers fired several shots, police spokesman Delrish Moss said on Wednesday. "How can you fear for your life Jeep were not involved in the carjacking, Moss said. Police found no gun at the scene of the shooting, although officers reportedly heard a loud noise before they opened fire.

The three officers involved in the shooting, Rafael Borroto, Javier Gonzalez and Brian Wilson, have been reassigned to administrative duties until the conclusion of an investigation. On Wednesday afternoon, no one answered the door at the northwest Miami-Dade house where Singleton Colleen Wood Staff Writer Josi Dante Parra Herrera contributed to this report Madeline Bard Diaz can be reached at or 305-810-5007. Training walk found out she lived in Fort Lauderdale, they -r asked police in early April to help them find Wood, said Detective MarkShotwell. Shotwell said the relatives told him Wood, who was supposed to go on a long sailing trip, was normally very good about keeping in touch. "Nobody that I spoke to has gone this long without hearing from her," Shotwell said.

They are asking anyone with information to call either him at 954-828-5517, orDetectiveAl Stone at 954-828-55 12. NSU receives chair in public interest law I Nova Southeastern University's iShepard Broad Law Center has a new endowed chair in public interest law. A 1 million gift from the C. William Trout Charitable Trust is being used to create the John B. Anderson Distinguished Visiting Chair in Public Interest Law.

The special fund will allow the NSU Law Center to expand its teachings, projects and research in the field of public interest law. A faculty committee under the direction of Dean Joseph I Harbaugh will choose the holder of the chair. William Trout was a real estate developer and investor and a friend I of Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova since 1987. Now president of the World Federalist Association in Washington, D.C., Anderson served 10 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and ran for 1 president in 1980.

f' I A LA. ill POLICE WORK: Hallandale Beach K-9 Officer Thomas Honan and his German Shepherd Karo train at the Polk Street Marina in Hollywood. Karo had never been on a boat and was taught to sniff out drugs. Various police agencies train together. Staff photo Robert Mayer PEMBROKE PINES Hollywood Shootings i POMPANO BEACH Enron plant hearing planned for tonight A town meeting will be held elective: 'She's the ro Pines Bivd.

irowaid omrounitj( fire College -Station library planned onBCC answer to my prayer3 I North I Perr Rf Pembroke Pines mi t2 Pembroke Rd Staff graphkCindy Jones-Huff achor Man who pulled pregnant woman from lobby during rampage gets rare happy ending. tonight on Enron power plant proposal for Pompano Beach. Called by Commissioner Kay McGinn, the meeting will be open to anyone who wants to speak. The City Commission is to vote Tuesday on whether to approve a zoning variance for the project. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m.

at the Pompano Beach Civic Center, 1801 NE 6th St. Correction A story published Wednesday on Page IB incorrectly described the ordination of Father Damian Gibault of Holy Cross Academy. Gibault was ordained in 1992 by then-Bishop Michael Dudick, a church spokesman said. We regret the error. yyu Si WATER RULES tion.

On Wednesday, the police off i-cers who brought her to safety lauded her for the courageous 911 call she made after being shot four times by Williams. "She's the one who put herself in a position to save herself," Vogel said. From Scheiber's call, the officers knew the gunman was still in the lobby and were able to see him almost immediately after arriving. Once Scheiber was out, the Police Department's SWAT team moved in. By that time, Williams had turned the gun on himself, and police found him dead in a corner of the lobby.

In his neat studio apartment, Williams left behind a suicide note but little else to indicate why he went on the shooting rampage. His family has stayed quiet. On Wednesday, Williams' sister called Paul White, who manages the company that owns the apartment building, and told him to give all Williams' possessions to Goodwill. "She said the family weren't coming by," White said. On Wednesday, when Ferguson, Browne and Vogel visited Scheiber at the hospital, they weren't disappointed.

"She's the answer to my prayer," Ferguson said with a barely contained glee. "The smile that I wanted was there. Yod don't get that in this job." She saved lives, he said. But the most important one has yet to arrive. It was on a black and white photo, a sonogram, tacked to the wall above her bed, Ferguson said.

On it, someone had written "the baby." its building also includes classrooms and BCC's learning resource center, Imoff said. The new building, she added, would have a "significant increase" in the amount of computers available for individual and group use. The project is entering the design phase, said Marvin Scharf, of Scharf Associates, the project architects. "It's going to be at least a few months before we have documents ready to bring to the city to initiate the planning approval process," Maurice said. "Once a site plan is approved, it's approximately a two-year delivery before it can open," he said.

The price tag includes $500,000 for materials and books to enhance the current collection, $820,800 for furniture and equipment, and the balance for design and construction. "This would be a library the community would be very proud of and the college as well," said Eileen McNally, planning coordinator for the library division. The existing library, which eventually may be used for BCC classroom space, should remain open to the public while the new building is under construction, Maurice said. "The plan is to keep the existing facility in operation with no disruption of service to the community," he said. campus By Jodie Needle STAFF WRITER Pembroke pines Plans for a 1 2.7-million library are underway for the city's east side, thanks to a $139 million bond issue voters approved two years ago.

The idea then was to expand the existing regional library on the south campus of Broward Community College at 7300 Pines Blvd. "But it became extremely problematic to try to renovate the facility and maintain an ongoing library operation," said Edmond Maurice, county construction management director. "The cost of renovation plus a temporary facility approximately equals the cost of a separate, new stand-alone facility." Kathleen Imhof heads the bond issue implementation team for the Broward County Library existing building was built in the early '80s, and you think of differences in technology between now and then," she said. "We've continued to add more electricity and voice and data lanes. At some point, you can't just add on." The new library is planned for the southeast section of the campus along Pines Boulevard, facing Southwest 72 nd Avenue.

The proposed two-story structure will be between 70,000 and 72,000 square feet, with space for tutoring, meeting rooms, a coffee bar, gift shop and more. The current library has 48,000 square feet used exclusively for the library, but by Andreas Tzortzis STAFF WRITER Hollywood He walked into the hospital room where she lay in bed Wednesday, heavily sedated and recovering from the damage the four bullets did to her body. She looked up at him and smiled. Detective William Ferguson breathed a sigh of relief. For once, he thought to himself, this was going to end differently.

Since the Friday morning shooting, when the veteran homicide detective raced from his desk at the Hollywood Police Department to the Town Home apartment building where a gunman was on a rampage, he hadn't been able to get Amanda Scheiber, 2 1 out of his mind. The manager of the apartment building was one of three people critically injured when Stuart Williams, 34, opened fire in the lobby with a handgun. Together with Officer James Vogel, Lt. Mike Browne, Detective Jason Thomas and Officer Daniel Dunn, Ferguson rushed into the lobby. He picked up Scheiber, 13 weeks pregnant, from where she was slumped in a chair and took her out of the building.

The team of off icers were able to do little for Williams' two other victims, Dawn Garcia, 20, and Ben Neivert, 87, who died almost immediately from their gunshot wounds. Doctors at Memorial Regional Hospital were able to save Scheiber and her unborn baby, both of whom are in stable condi Modified Phase 2 water restrictions are now in effect for Palm Beach, ij Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe f. counties. The following lawrt- watering rules are for 5 residential acres or less. For complete information, call 800-662-8876, or visitwww.sfwmd.gov.

Addresses ending in odd numbers can water 4 to 8 a.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Addresses ending in even numbers 1 1 can water 4 to 8 a.m. on Thursdays and Sundays. -id Hand watering with one hose and an automatic shut-off nozzle is allowed to I'd 7 p.m.

daily, except Fridays. jM New landscaping planted for fewer than 30 days may be watered 4 to 8 a.m. daily, except Fridays, with spot watering li anytime. Jj Cars, boats, equipment Washing permitted 4 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.

on rti.the landscape watering days, as long as water drains into the ground and a hose with an automatic shut-off nozzle is used. Salt spray may be rinsed from vehicles near the coast for 30 seconds once a day. Detective William Ferguson, top, picked up pregnant shooting victim Amanda Scheiber, middle, from the lobby where gunman Stuart Williams, bottom, went on a rampage, shooting four people. Scheiber and her unborn child are in stable condition. Jodie Needle can be reached at )needlesun' sentinel.com or 954-385-7908.

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