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i 4 1 1 4 44 4 4 44 4- 4'4' 44 44 44 4 i WWIHGOSAIHI6ELOCOM NATIONAL NEWS GAO ANGELO STAIDJUID-TiUES SUNDAY OCTOBER 20 2002 7A Man shot outside Virginia restaurant Time needed to stop serial sprees CC A tthe frequency xLhels doing it hels going to get caught unless he goes into hiding for a Eric Hickey professor of criminal psychology at California State University Fresno ASHLAND Va (AP) A 37-yearold man was shot and wounded in a steakhouae parking lot Saturday night and authorities were investigating whether die sniper had struck again for fee first time on a weekend The victim of the shooting outside a Ponderosa restaurant was rushed to a hospital and was undergoing surgery authorities Bald State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said portions of Interstate 95 were closed immediately as police set up road blocks She said it was too early to ten if the shunting was related to the Washing-ton-area sniper Maryland State Police Sgt William Vogt said troopers were on the lookout for a white van with a ladder rack A sniper task force was on its way to the scene said Montgomery County police Capt Nancy Demme 1 If the shooting turns out to be related it would be the first time the sniper attacked on a weekend it also would fidlow -the longest lull in between shootings as the break In the spree had stretched into a fifth day It also would be the 12th sniper shooting since they began Oct 2 nine of the vie- time were killed Before killing of FBI analyst Linda Franklin at a Fairfax County Home Depot store the longest gap between shootings was three days Ashland Police Chief Frederic Pleasants Jr said the victim and a female companion were walking to a car in the parking lot behind the restaurant about 7 pjn when the victim was shot in the abdomen The companion saw nothing and authorities say at this point AP PHOTO BY VICTORIA ARACHO Montgomery County Polka Chief Charles A Moose walks past a barrage of cameras following a noon news conference Saturday in Rockville Md' into hiding for a Typical serial killer cases take months or years to close but the pace of killing is slower than in Washington of David Berkowitz killed six people and shot seven others In New York City during 13 months before he Was caught in 1977 The Washington-area sniper is blamed for killing nine people and wounding two within 13 days The latest shooting was Monday night since then the shooter has taken his longest break since his first attacks On Oct2 The killings became more personal for law enforcers when an FBI analyst was Blain while leaving a Home Depot store in Falls Church Va Authorities do not believe her job was related to the killing Larry Thompson the deputy attorney general said more than 1000 officers doing everything we possibly can to identify the person who is responsible for these horrible and evil Those involved include local police Virginia and Maryland troopers the FBI the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms the Secret Service and US Park Police "COUPON Dinner evidence yet to connect this to the other sniper shootings are not taking any chances We are deploying our resources aa if connected Better safe than sorry" Raymond Loving who owns a Texaco gas station about 50 yards from the steak-house told CNN a woman came into his gas station and said someone had been shot in the parking lot see anything She just heard a loud Loving said Earlier Saturday authorities tested a shell casing found in a white rental truck for links to the sniper attacks Police said it would be at least Monday before they could announce whether the shell casing found in the a vehicle similar to one police have profiled in the ambush killings is connected to the shootings The shell casing was found in a car seized at a rental agency near Dulles International Airport in Virginia authorities said Meanwhile high schools staged football games at secret locations so players could compete without fearing for their lives Jon DeNunzio high school sports editor for The Washington Post said some northern Virginia schools would tell his stafT where games were being playBd only if the paper promised not to publish the sites WASHINGTON Even an army of more than 1000 law officers hunting for the Wash-ington-area sniper cannot bring a promise of swift Justice It took 17 years to catch the Unabamber and longer to make an arrest in the Green River aerial killings in foe Northwest The 1996 Summer Olympics bombing suspect still is at large and last year's deadly anthrax mailings remain unsolved Catching a serial killer can take years or the hunt can just fade away into a smoke trail of false leads Sniper killers are particularly hard to apprehend: They shoot from longer distances often kill at random and generally leave few witnesses and little evidence are those who get away with murder" said Eric Hickey professor of criminal psychology at California State University Fresno The who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s never was caught An unknown Bniper shot seven people killing one around New York City's Pennsylvania Station in 1983 and 1984 then disappeared Yet Hickey and others who study serial killers believe foe Washington-area shooter or shooters will be found and relatively soon They fear however it will come at the cost of more lives hate to say it but every time he shoots someone it brings you closer to said Hickey who estimates about three-fourths of the US cases attributed to serial killers have been closed the frequency doing it going to get Hickey said he goes 11am-2pm Tuesday Night MrGattTte featuring any of our (jflliffjmw Gourmet Plxaae a special Italian Eotteel Monday thru Up to four IW to nit othw ooupoaa or Cuban Missile Crisis anniversary prompts reunion of classmates "COUPON All-YaihCaie-toEat-ik-Drink Adult Buffet Thursday 5pm-9pm p-opla par coupon Muat purchase a Coupon not wllA In wMnaHca with ipackd pricing Valid Ihiu 123002 Monday thru Thursday Night Every Kid Buffet comes with $250 In Ctameplay NORFOLK Va (AP) Carol Heilman thought it was Just another drill perhaps part of a war game So foe 17-year-old wasn't too concerned when she and other kids on the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba were ordered to leave school In the middle of the day and head straight home on Oct 22 1962 Told to pack a single suitcase she filled hers entirely with 45s by-Elvis Presley Buddy Holly and other favorite musicians Even when her fhmily boarded a ship she still grasp that foe situation was serious we got out to the mouth of the bay I turned around and the sun was setting over the (base) chapel" Carol now Carol Heilman Winkler recalled Friday during a school reunion sunlight hit the steeple I knew they have no other witnesses Pleasants said the man was a traveler but did not say from where Geller said the victim was taken to MCV Hospital in Richmond She said she did not know the condition Ashland is about 90 miles south of Washington and about 85 miles south of Fredericksburg where two previous shootings this month were linked to the sniper LL Doug Goodman Hanover County office spokesman said authorities cordoned off the intrastate and the parallel highway Traffic was backed up for miles Goodman saRL He said they haje any then and I just lost it because I have a home" She and her classmates were among more than 2400 military dependents evacuated from Guantanamo because of the brewing Cuban missile crisis which President Kennedy disclosed to the country that night as most of the evacuees headed for Norfolk The 40th anniversary of that day was the focus of the reunion which brought together about 200 people who attended junior or senior high at WT Sampson School at Guantanamo between 1953 and 1967 The crisis began in mid-October 1962 when Kennedy learned that Cuba had Soviet nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States The resulting US-Soviet standofT already had brought the countries precipitously a federal judge in Los Angeles reached a similar conclu: sion in refusing to dismiss a similar lawsuit involving an Arab-American removed from a United Airlines flight on Dec 23 Both lawsuits as well as other complaints filed in California and Maryland were brought in June by the American Civil Liberties Union They seek Injunctions barring discrimination The New Jersey case involves Michael Dasrath an American citizen born in Guyana who lives in Brooklyn NY and Edgardo Cureg a permanent resident from the Philippines who lives in Tampa Fla and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Dasrath 32 and Cureg 34 separately boarded a Continental flight in Newark bound for Orlando Fla Hi 3 i i 4 i yA i San Angela 4349 Sherwood Way 223-1319 Wednesday Night Buy $5 in GcmMjriay Mik tune Judge rules passengers taken off plane can sue close to nuclear war when Guantanamo fiunllies received a one-page letter Oct 22 A authority has directed the immediate evac- uation of all dependents from the Naval the letter explained do not ask questions or request The families were told to take buses to the piers leave their cars at home with the keys in the ignition or tied to the steering wheel tie up pets in their yards and leave their house keys on their living-room tables Same never had a chance to say goodbye to fathers and husbands who stayed behind to protect the base Mothers and Bmall children already had left by the time the Grant sisters Kqye Diana and Frances and their father drove through their neighborhood -Vb SAjkjy at a With lower loan rates higher savings rates and the friendliest people in San Angelo you'll feel a part of our Credit Union family We're now able to offer membership to most who live work worship or attend school in the San Angelo community NEWARK NJ(AP)-A federal judge has refused to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit by two men who were removed from a Continental Airlines flight on New Year's Eve when a passenger complained about The Houston-based airline sought dismissal arguing its employees have authority to bar passengers who might be to under a federal law The airline also said another law gives them broad protection in reporting activity" US District Judge Dickinson Debevoise disagreed ruling that intentional racial discrimination is not permissible He did not rule on the merit of the claims only that they deserve a chance to prove that unlawful bias was the reason for their removal Continental spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said did not discriminate in these cases We intend to defend them vigorously" The airline contended its employees had good cause to remove the passengers citing movements in the cabin but Debevoise said those arguments are premature in a dismissal effort decision filed Thursday came a week after General Technologies FEDERAL CREDIT UNION San Angelo Ana Office 2601 Loop 306 9154413535 Medical Canter Branch 102 Magdalen 9154581951 wwwgtfcucom Serving the San Angelo Community Since 1948 i.