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Monday Morning, August 1977 Another Pair Of Young Lovers Slxot By New York Killer 'Silent Sam' VADIJ' iim.t mi i i-. NEW YORK (UPI) A gunman police believe is the psychopathic killer "Son of Sam" emerged from the shadows at the Brooklyn waterfront early Sunday and critically wounded a young couple parked in a lovers'law. The shooting occurred despite beefed-up patrols set up in fear the gunman, who already had killed five persons and wounded six in the last year with his Bulldog revolver, would strike on the anniversary weekend of his first attack. "There were four shots, then a horn blowing, then 1 heard a scream 'Help me, please help me'," recalled a shaken 21-year- old college coed standing near the shooting scene not far from Bridge. the Yerrazano "1 knew right away it was the killer." The victims, Robert Violante and Stacy Moskowitz, both 20 and both NEW YORK police inspect the car in which a young couple was shot early Sunday, believed to be victims of "Son of Sam," who has killed five per- sons and wounding six others.

The young lovers were parked near Dyer Beach Park in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. (UPITelephoto.) Gunman Strikes Despite Task Force ffiSLPTOiss wiiiieadt iust weekend of "Son of Sam's" of Brooklyn, were shot in the head'and reported in critical condition at Kings County Medical Center. Doctors labored to save the life of the 5-foot-l blonde Miss Moskowitz, who had a bullet or fragment lodged in the back of her skull. They said Violante would live but would lose his left eye. Parents of the two victims exchanged emotional hugs at the hospital and tearfully consoled each other while waiting for word on their children.

Police conceded they had concentrated their efforts over the weekend in the Bronx and Queens areas where Sam previously had confined his attacks. But Sunda, the gunman struck in Brooklyn's middleclass Bensonhurst section. "Sure, we're frustrated," said Del. Pat Harnett of the special 50-man homicide task force set up to track the killer who first surfaced July 29, 1976. "We had hoped to get this maniac off the street." Detectives at the task force said "all indications" were that the assailant was the "Son of Sam," but waited for ballistics tests for confirmation.

"Based on the style of shooting, it's the same person," said Chief of Detectives John Keenan. The couple had gone to the movies for a first date and was i i in Violante's old brown Buick at 2:40 a.m. when the killer emerged from Dyker Beach park along the waterfront into the light of the full moon, police said. At least two witnesses saw the gunman walk up to the car which was crouch and, steadying the gun with both hands, fire four shots through the open car window, police said. "One guy saw the entire thing through the rear view mirror of his car," said parkedunder a street light Police Officer Alan Fischer Temperatures In July Just Didn't Let Up The prospects lor a milder than normal July ended Sunday, unfulfilled.

Texans who sweated out the month-long heatwave now figure August can't be worse. July temperatures were not necessarily of the recordbreaking variety, they just endured. Rains which produced spring floods disappeared for weeks in many portions of the state, creating the threat of range, forest and grass fires and poor harvests. a Panhandle to the Gulf Coast who had always heard about the legendary hot summer days in Presidio baked in 100-degreeplus readings themselves. The month's i a weekend saw the 100- degree mark matched or exceeded in College Station, Childress, Dalhart, Del Rio, Cotulla, Dallas, Tyler, Waco, Wichita Falls, Midland, Junction and Alice.

Only Marfa, in the mountains of far West Texas, could claim mild temperatures with any regularity. The morning low in the city Sunday was 56. A few rainshowers steamed portions of southwestern Texas Sunday, the National Weather Service a i i precipitation ares skies were clear to partly cloudy. of the Snyder Avenue Stationhouse. "He was parked in front of the couple." Keenan said the witness told him the gunman walked calmly back into the park after firing the four shots.

"He just walked down the lane and disappeared," the chief of detectives said. A marked patrol car that had passed the scene not 10 minutes before the shooting was the first on the scene, police said. They immediately sealed off the area. Witnesses described the gunman as a male, age 25 to 30, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-10, of medium build. He wore blue dungarees, a light gray shirt with long sleeves and had light hair a description which Keenan said "generally fits" the man who calls himself "Son ofSam." i i detectives had hauled Violante's bloodstained car back to the precinct for examination.

On the back bumper was an anti-gun control sticker. The curtam has risen! first strike and New York City's police were ready. Already beefed-up patrols were beefed up some more, stakeouts were set up and decoys posted. But four gunshots echoed on a lovers' lane on Brooklyn's shore Sunday, a young couple was critically injured and police were left with the empty feeling that all they did was just not enough. "There's a great feel of frustration but it certainly does not indicate any giving up on our part," said Chief of Detectives John Keenan.

"We'll intensify our investigation." Police have hundreds of officers, pyschiatrists and a hypnotist into the hunt for the gunman already wanted for killing five persons and wounding six others with a 4 4 a i revolver. They had thousands of tips from as far away as a a i descriptions and an operating pattern for the killer, who preys mostly on young lovers in parked cars as a bloodthirsty "spirit roaming the night." In Son of Sam's last note, sent to a newspaper columnist, the gunman hinted strongly he might with new violence. So police flooded the streets with patrols. Singles hangouts were staked out, primarily in the Bronx and Queens where Sam had confined his attacks. But the gunman Sunday struck in Brooklyn.

A patrol car had passed the area just 10 minutes before. By the time it was summoned back, the gunman had disappeared into the park from which he emerged to pump bullets into the heads of 20year-old Stacy Moskowitz and Robert Violante. "Sure, we're frustrated. We had hoped to get this maniac off the streets," said Del. Pat Harnett, part of 'a 50-meniber "Son of Sam" task force.

"But nobody was surprised. We're dealing with the unexpected, so nothing surprises us." Keenan, however, was angry the gunman was given a target in the first place. "I'm shocked that despite the publicity, people will sit in a car this late at night," he said. While doctors at Kings County Medical Center worked hours to save Miss Moskowitz' life and at least a part of Violante's eyesight, police began again piecing together SCHREIBER MILLER La Marqu. HAS 111 i4 U' t'.

3 It German Terrorist Trio Kills Prominent Banker BONN, West Germany (UPI) A terrorist trio murdered West Germany's second-ranking banker after his goddaughter, bearing a gift of red roses, led the killers into his home, Federal Prosecutor General Kurt Rebmann said Sunday. Rebmann said he will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Susanne Albrecht, the 26-year old daughter of a wealthy Hamburg lawyer and the woman who led the terrorists Saturday into the home of Juergen Ponto, chairman of the board of the Dresdner Bank. Ponto and his wife, Ines, treated Miss Albrecht as their godchild, Rebmann Photo Exhibit Feature At COM TEXAS C1TY-A special a i photography symposium exhibit will be held from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at College of the Mainland's Student Center.

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When he resisted, they shot him in the back and head. Rebmann said police found bullet casings and four slugs in the corridor. They came from two caliber pistols, he said. Ponto's wife heard the shooting and saw the three attackers drive away in a car. She phoned the police and was able to identify Susanne Albrecht before going into shock.

Ponto died 90 minutes later in a hospital. Rebmann said Miss Albrecht has been connected with "the terrorist scene" for several years. He surmised the trio hoped to kidnap Ponto either in order to extort ransom money or to exchange him for the release of other urban guerrillas now in prison. Miss Albrecht reportedly knows at least one of the four persons sentenced earlier this month in Duesseldorf to double life sentences for the April 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt denounced the killing as "a malicious murder." Zinl With MINI-BASKET Tub 2-IN-1 WASHER WITH EXCLUSIVE GE MINI-BASKET system traps lint Normal and permanent press temperature selections Bleach Dispenser NOW ONLY WHILE THEY LAST MULTI-TEMPERATURE DRYER 3 drying selections, normal, delicate, cycles including permanent of cycle signal, Up front lint filter, Porcelain Enamel Drum NOW ONLY WHILE THEY LAST SEE OUR SELECTION OF OTHER GE GE DRYERS NOW AT ClOSEOUT PRICES.

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