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h Nation THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1980 e tyvian kills self in newsroom fter taping "plea for poor’ war and tinct abs are seixh •om the of dollan irates sines J , United Press International CINCINNATI — A drug-crazed artist lamenting the osque shoolijjssiHg 0 f the “revolutionaries of the 60s seized a od, crestinjSglevjsjQu station, forced employees at gunpoint to tape lis plea for the poor, admitted shooting his girlfriend, to Europe then turned one of his six weapons on himself. James Ralph Hoskins, 41, was sprawled on the floor of since thewhe WCPO-TV newsroom when police stormed the i, sent thert^uilding, ending the 12-hour drama Wednesday. He 3 have losttyas dead of a gunshot wound to the head. An autopsy vas set for today. ost of their5 “I’ve been taking weird drugs. I’m out of my mind,” ic said in a taped interview broadcast over WCPO later adeheavypA the day. “I’ve taken angel dust and Valium. I blew my ghting, [irlfriend away tonight. She’s dead. I’m a dead man. ularintheCdjere is no hope for me. I’m slipping away. I’m gone, ’m gone.” saidAntk Police found his girlfriend Melanie Finley, 30, a for- o. SAL invsner nun who was an eighth-grade teacher at a Catholic htofasamoachool, dead of a gunshot wound where Hoskins said o. ” hey would — in his fourth-floor apartment in the city’s erthrowofcxior Over the Rhine section. in estimated In hour-long phone negotiations with Hoskins, police by indivuiiaid he expressed remorse over the death of his girl- ported to keriend but did not indicate a motive. However, in the TV ing the tenterview, the out-of-work artist did say Miss Finley iad once schemed with him to take over the station, tales,"saidft “We planned to do big things together,” he said, now a pnnThis whole thing was planned back in San Francisco. I quid depostan’t say if it was the drugs.” rcenthasg® Hoskins took over the station at about 2 a.m., armed dth five handguns and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. a shiver dor d as theuk He had hundreds of rounds of ammunition “stuffed in his pockets everywhere,” police said. “He was ready for anything. ” Police said apparently Hoskins had just shot his girlfriend. He stopped newswoman Elaine Green in the WCPO parking lot, saying he didn’t want to hurt her but asking her to videotape an interview with him. Throughout the interview, Hoskins held his rifle in his hand, aimed at Green. Hoskins lamented the “mistreatment of poor people, ” then rambled onto other topics and his personal plight. At about 3:30 a.m., he cleared the station and barri caded himself in the newsroom. Green notified police. “When the police come and get me,” Hoskins said in his broadcasts, “we’re going to shoot it out. They’ve got their magnums. I’ve got my magnums.” But police talked to him instead. The phone conversa tion began at 8 a.m., and “at 9:15, the conversation abruptly ended,” Police Capt. Edward Ammann said. “There was a noise that appeared to be a muffled gun shot.” Police waited four hours before entering the building. “We wanted to make sure it wasn’t a ploy,” said Ammann. It wasn’t. Despite the siege, WCPO managed to continue broadcasting all day via makeshift equipment, with news director Al Schottelkotte periodically reporting the takeover of his own station in a parking lot two blocks away. Carter; issues will be focus ' said Asstf een facilltll* United Press International jt thesenpf BOSTON — With Sen. Edward f the finaaoKennedy campaigning at his side, es, or for president Carter Wednesday ac- n a bank fe'used the Republicans of opposing ‘every great social reform” from the to stem ixninirnum wage to Medicare. :y crisis, tie Carter, making his second of three rodollars ETips to the vote-rich Northeast this veek, also praised the Mas- iachusetts senator and the Kennedy family in a speech at the Christopher Columbus Community Center. He said the Kennedy family has staunchly supported social programs to help the nation’s poor and oppres sed. Only a few months ago, Ken nedy was running for the Democra tic nomination against Carter and had labeled the president a “clone” of Reagan. Carter attacked GOP nominee Ronald Reagan and the Republicans in his talk at the community center. “If you look back, here is what you will really find: Republicans oppposed every great social reform — Social Security, the minimum wage. Medicare — and the list goes on,” said Carter. ^Actress’ son dies dulcimers un blast d the otlei. 02 it music and. I United Press International ing malls an HOLLYWOOD — Richard Carlton Meeker, 24-year-old son of actress Mary Tyler Moore, died of a shotgun wound to his head as the first: Tuesday night, Los Angeles police reported Wednesday, nt, excludiK According to officers, Meeker, a CBS-TV employee, was “playing r Indian i# with a shotgun” in a home he shared with female students near the eardonewlrytftiivetsity of Southerti'CalifbWiia campus; ■ ,.r,; , .. j. -,,. essee asac ' !l “We can’t say yet whether his death was accidental or a suicide,” a ineightyean spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said, to make ok Television producer Grant Tinker, Meeker’s step-father said, “It was an absolute accident. Richard had talked to Mary by telephone a hobbyist, 1 couple of hours earlier and he was cheerful and totally himself, ake dulcimc “According to Mary, he was perfectly normal and happy. It was a a year he ghastly accident. ” ixComn# Detective Jerry Ferrin said one of the roommates, Judy Vasquez, dulcimern* 21, witnessed the shooting. The second roommate, Janet McLaughlin, wasin another room at the time the gun discharged. | Fefrrin quoted Vasquez as saying, “He was loading and unloading the short-barreled gun when it went off. It was awful. He must have pulled the trigger. There was a big bang and he fell on the bed.” .ji Vasquez said Meeker was talking on the telephone to his girlfriend in Fresno, Calif., when the gun was fired. 10, Ferrin said Vasquez ran to a neighbor to call for an ambulance at 11:10 p.m. Meeker was pronounced dead at Western Park Hospital 20 minutes later. •I? 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