The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 15

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL A15 MEMPHIS THURSDAY AUGUST 18 1994 Tenn dad Miss abduction ends in slaying rape Truck kills Dyersburg pedestrian Fayette board extend Summitt pact drowns but saved gun on the couple The assailant forced I gpgcMto The Comnurctrt AppMfl does not mean he will not be iited Summitt said the on effectively means he By Jennifer Biggs Special to The Commercial Appeal DESTIN Fla (AP) The gtorm-tossed Gulf of Mexico took Michael Mitchell's life but not before he pushed his 13-year-old daughter into a arms The 41-year-old vacationer from Chattanooga drowned Tuesday in rough surf churned DYERSBURG Tenn Billy Joe Bur keen died Monday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis after being hit by a truck on a Dyersburg street Sun- by Tropical Storm Beryl at 1 -jnar Beach about a half-i -mile east GREENVILLE Miss (AP) Hollandale man was shot to death and his female companion was raped and beaten before escaping from her assailant Wednesday authorities said Peter Gordon 24 of HoUan-dale died after being shot in the head said Washington County assistant coroner Huton Stokes Gordon and an 18-year-old female companion had been abducted from a Greenville service station early Wednesday The woman was raped and beaten before getting away said a spokesman for the Greenville Alice Department When the couple stopped at the store the woman went inside to buy a few things MaJ-Ken Campbell said When she came out and got into the front seat of Gordons vehicle a man got into the back seat and held a Gordon to drive east on Old Leland Road! The woman said she heard a shot and the car veered into a cotton field Campbell said As she tried to Jump out of th car the man grabbed beat and raped her She told police she knocked the gun from his hand! bit Mm and ran into the field Campbell said she hid there until she was sure he was gone' then ran to a nearby house She was able to get into the house and wake up the occupant who gave her some clothes and took her to the Washington County Sheriffs Department i Police have a videotape from the Greenville store with the suspect on it Campbell said Police will continue to talk with witnesses and the victim he said will not continue as superintendent after January basically what happened" he said plans are guided by this vote unless the board changes its mind I will obviously be moving on" Summitt and the school board have a long history of butting heads but he said their working relationship has improved made diligent efforts to work with them to make a solid working partnership but it obviously wasn't reflected in the vote" Summitt said He said he is under no legal obligation to fulfill his term and could leave prior to January if he finds other employment Summitt was hired in 1991 SOMERVILLE Tenn The Fayette County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday not to extend the contract of Supt Dale Summitt mmitt said he asked the board to consider extending the contract which expires Jan 31 because he feels it should not end in the middle of the school year would like to leave the term (of the contract) as it is but I think Mr Summitt deserves to know the decision of the board so he can plan his future" board member Henry Martin said when he made the motion not to extend the contract Although the board's action I of this Florida Panhandle city Another swimmer David Cart-wright 40 of Atlanta brought Megan Mitchell to shore unharmed and then returned to the Gulf in a futile battle to also '(rescue the father Mitchell who owned a dental surkeen 18 was walking on St John Avenue about 935 jo when struck He was taken to Methodist Hospital of Dyersburg and transferred to The Med where he died The accident is being investigated The name of the driver and frill details of an accident report were not re- was vacationing with his wife and two daughters said family friend Ann Braly in Chattanooga Cartwright said he was swimming about SO yards from shore when he heard a cry for help The current had pulled Mitchell and his daughter about 100 yards from the beach Mitchell had Megan by the arm and was straining to keep his head and his daughter above water as Cartwright swam to them said Cartwright recounted He said Mitchell then shoved Megan toward him Cartwright a former cham-Lonship swimmer grabbed the girl and tried to get Mitchell but was unable to Cartwright swam to shore with the daughter a trip that took 10 to IS minutes through crashing breakers and a strong current He swam back to Mitchell who was still afloat He grabbed him told him his daughter 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