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I Birmingham Post -Herald you probably know I tried to commit suicide shortly before I went to trial And out of that experience I think I learned a new respect for Ex-deputy convicted of assault A former Jefferson County sheriff! deputy was found guilty yesterday of assault in the third degree Marvin Henderson was charged on Aug 4 1987 with attempted murder which carries a sentence of 20 years to life in the shooting of Donnie Bryant on July 25 1987 After a three-day trial the Jury found Henderson guilty of the lesser charge of assault which carries a sentence of up to one year in the county Jail and a fine of up to $2000 Restitution to the victim for lost wages and medical expenses also may be included in the sentence The sentencing hearing was postponed until July 1 Teen killer holds up his life as bad example to follow A St Clair County Circuit Court Jury convicted Moore on Sept 4 1987 in the May 26 1985 slaying of Mrs Macon The 26-year old woman was shot during a robbery at the store According to trial testimony Moore entered the store with 17-year-old Chris White who cocked the gun and gave Moore the sign to shoot Miss Macon Moore was sentenced to life in prison without parole although the judge could have sentenced him to death On May 4 White 17 pleaded guilty to the loser charge of murder in exchange for a life sentence with the possibility of parole The third youth alleged to have been involved in the killing Scott Davis who was 17 at the time of the slaying still awaits trial on the capital charge All three youths were heavily involved in playing a role-playing game called "Top Secret" at the time of the robbery Moore told the students he and his friends developed when they began taking the fantasy games more seriously than their creators ever intended started playing these things called role-playing games Maybe some of you have heard of Dungeons and Dragons things like that Well for me it got a lot more serious We started having death pacts and suicide pacts We took real bows and arrows and went out into a field behind my house and we shot them at each other if somebody got hit so what? We wanted to commit suicide anyway If somebody else did it for us it was just so much easier then from there we started to live out the things that we did in these games in real life and we ended up hurting a lot of people and ruining a lot of people's lives And there's nothing I can say to Moore said Cardwell asked Moore if he thought a lot of students were time waiting to explode as Moore had been really believe there are I know that we were from a small community and for the three of us to get involved in something like this three kids who did well in school and who never got in any trouble you know that there are a lot of kids hurting out Cardwell said he arranged the Interview with Mom last week while at the prison doing a stony on correctional officers Yesterday was the first time Mom spoke to' visiting students about his experiences he said By Nick Patterson Poct-Hcrild Reporter Convicted killer Cayce Moore yesterday tried to scare West Jefferson High School students away from the path be followed a path that led to a lifetime home in prison think that because you're young you cant throw your life away in a heartbeat because that's exactly what I Moore told the students who visited West Jefferson Correctional Facility Moore 20 also gave his first interview to a WBMG-Channel 42 reporter since he was convicted six months ago in the capital murder of Ragland convenience store clerk Missy Macon Seemingly in response to a question about whether he hated prison life Moore told reporter Dale Cardwell he has adjusted to the thought of never being free again you probably know I tried to commit suicide shortly before I went to trial And out of that experience I think I learned a new respect for life I've accepted this as kind of a new life And I realize that nothing I can do about it" Moore said Veterans hospital expands By Joan Mazzolinl Poet-Herald Reporter Veterans from Alabama and the Southeast will see an addition when they come to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Birmingham The addition which houses the surgical and intensive-care floors was completed this month after four years of construction Patients were moved in two weeks ago VA hospital has hit a landmark of uid Robert Rollins assistant hospital administrator For the first time since the facility was built in 1953 the hospital will be state of the art Rollins said Though two or mm years of construction is expected to refurbish the rest of the hospital the $80 million program will give the veterans an up-to-date facility OR and ICU floors cost more than the original Rollins said The original building was built for $15 million The main lobby on University Boulevard already has been renovated the hospital was built it only had one waiting which held about 40 people said Jim Palmer construction coordinator veterans had to sit out in the hallway and METRO BRIEFS The state charged that Henderson out of Jealousy after seeing his wife in a car with Bryant waited in an alley for Bryant and shot him twice in the back prosecutor Steve Mahon said Defense attorney Bill Dawson said he argued that Henderson did not have criminal intent to commit serious assault satisfied that a fair verdict" Dawson said Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Jasper presided over the case Municipal officials to meet The annual Alabama League of Municipalities convention opens this weekend in Birmingham About 1500 people are expected for the four-day forum which begins tomorrow at the Ramada Hotel Civic Center Plaza Convention business will begin at 2 pm tomorrow in the hotel's Mediterranean Room with a meeting of the resolutions committee The convention continues through Tuesday with workshops panel discussions and speakers The league which has a membership of 399 cities meets in Birmingham every four years said Ed Hall director of the Greater Birmingham Convention and Bureau Hall said he expects the league visitors to spend $810000 during their stay Infant-care workshop set Childcare Resources and the University of Alabama at School of Education will co-sponsor first Infant-Toddler Workshop for parents care-givers teachers directors and administrators who provide care for infants to the age of 30 months The workshop will be from 8 am to 1 pm June 11 at School of Education Building School orientation set Hoover city schools will have (mentation for kindergarten and first-grade pupils from 9 to 10 am Monday at all Hoover elementary schools The programs will include school information and a brief tour of the schools For more information contact the school public information office at 985-2403 BSC to honor 3 tomorrow Two local leaders and a nationally known educator will be awarded honorary degrees during commencement ceremonies tomorrow at Birmingham-Southern College Recipients will be Peggy Spain McDonald civic leader and executive director of the Greater Birmingham Foundation Rev Jerry Edward Sisson senior minister at Canterbury United Methodist Church and Dr Ernest Boyer president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Princeton NJ college President Neal RBertesaid Graduation exercises are scheduled at 4 pm in the Bill Battle Coliseum 12 chosen award finalists Twelve University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty members have been chosen as finalists for the 1988 Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in classroom teaching The award recipient is chosen by the UAB students Last recipient was Ollis Powers HL assistant professor of accounting The winner will be announced today at the school The nominees are: Gorman Jones III accounting instructor Gail McGee associate professor of management Kevin Walsh associate professor of curriculum and instruction Linda Griffith assistant professor of curriculum and instruction Von Stephens associate professor of freshman engineering David Green electrical engineering lecturer Ada Long associate professor of English Alan Perlis professor of English James Hawk physics lecturer Louis Dale professor of mathematics Carl McFarland Jr professor qf psychology and Frederick Smith associate professor oi criminal justice PMa Sjr Staffed Gum Ri Greene walks past some of the equipment in the new operating room at Veterans Administration Hospital in Birmingham try and are in some state of building or Rollins Mid no such thing as a VIP VA Rollins Mid But refurbishing one of the most complex VA restructurings been In his office Rollins has a model of what the hospital will look like in two years But Waitress death suspect drops insanity plea for now many of the hallways are filled with workers with hard hats lugging wheel barrows full of broken concrete When construction is complete the hospital will have not only the addition which houses $400000 in new operating equipment and a new $2 million heart catheterization machine but also 453 beds On March 4 Circuit Judge James Hard scheduled a hearing for a jury to determine if Bradley was competent to stand trial If the jury had found him incompetent Hard could have postponed trial for Bradley who had been sent back from Taylor Hardin March 23 But on April 28 Dawson asked that competency to stand trial not be placed before a jury Lawyers involved in the case are prohibited by Hard from talking about the case while it is pending The new lobby is spacious with circular couches trees and paintings The trees and art came from donations VA let us buy some Palmer mid Also included in the renovation is a redesign of the patient rooms changing them from 18- to four-bed rooms There are 172 VA hospitals in the coun south Jefferson River Run area She had left work at South Point An American Cafe in Five Points South about 11 pm theprevious day Her black 1973 Monte Carlo was found north of the restaurant broken down at Sixth Avenue South and 18th Street Miss Schoettlin lived south of the restaurant in Vestavia Knolls Townhouses Bradley was arrested March 19 1987 four months after telling Jefferson County sheriff's investigators he had received from giving him information about the killing In November 1987 Bradley was sent to Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility in Tuscaloosa where his mental state was evaluated and he was determined competent to stand trial But Jan 19 Bradley was sent back to Taylor Hardin for treatment after Donna Click a Jefferson County Jail psychiatric social worker described him as acting while jailed About the same time defense lawyer Bill Dawson added the guilty by reason of mental disease or plea to the plea Bradley already had entered By Nick Patterson Post-Herald Reporter The week before his capital murder trial in the 1986 death of Tracey Schoettlin Tommy Bradley has dropped his kuanity plea He now only pleads not guilty in the death of Miss Schoettlin 28 Bradley 27 of 2019 Ninth Street Circle Center Point will be tried beginning Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court in the 'stabbing and mutilation of the waitress The body of Miss Schoettlin was found by joggers July 14 1986 under a bridge in mphasis on drug use must shift from abroad to local level Cook said as far as concerned those of us who work with this problem every day we care how it comes up as long as it Reagan on Wednesday told graduates of the UK Coast Guard Academy that a bipartisan task force is needed to address all areas of drug abuse including use of the military in interdiction until now a lot of focus has been put cm the international drag cartel but we put the focus on the consequences of drug use at the community Cook Mid As drunken drivers have been held accountable for their actions drug users must also be accountable Cook Hid What seems to be increased efforts are probably better characterized as change in the direction of Cook Hid Say No reach the social groups that are really dysfunctional already like inner-city And at such a rtme when the issues are so highly political Cook Hid tfoe in the area of law enforcement 0)d drug-abuse treatment must help steer policy-makers into responsible programs By Steve Joynt Put-Herald Reporter Foster Cook got a first-hand look at the Reagan fight against drugs this week a real frenzy of activity in trying to find something that Mid Cook who was in Washington Monday and Tuesday at a meeting of the National Drag Policy Board Cook is director of Birmingham's Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime program which provides drug treatment in varying degrees to people charged with drug-related crimes He is also president of the National Consortium of TASC Programs The Drug Policy Board meeting involved about 37 prac-tioners academicians researchers and policy-makers including Reagan's Chief of Staff Howad Baker and Dr Ian MacDonald director of the White House Drag Abuse Policy Office President Reagan paid a short visit Monday The latest flurry of efforts by me federal government in fighting drug abuse is "certainly contributed to by the political environment namely the presidential Foster Cook says drugs must concern policy-makers Cook Mid was nice to hqve people of that level take a look at what was going on fit at the same time afto doing this for 15 years I couldn't help but have the feeling of Well it's about.