Monday, April 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
Church crowd witnesses shopping mall gunfight
Fugitive shot and killed; FBI agent wounded
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JnASHVILLE — A fugitive
liranted for shooting an FBI
Hent was shot and killed Sun-
jlay in a gunfight with FBI
enis who tracked him to a
lopping mall packed with a
flinch crowd.
|A senior FBI agent who was
eking the fugitive was se-
Jusly wounded and a woman
•A^stander was shot in the leg.
Killed was Robert Vance La
timer, 25, an “extremely dan
gerous” expert marksman with
a black bell in karate who es
caped from the Arizona State
Penitentiary in Florence, Ariz.,
Jan. 23 and was wanted for
shooting FBI agent Carl Swan
son March 8 in Springfield, Va.
Latimer was gunned down in
the street near the Rivergale
Mall, 15 miles north of Nash
ville.
FBI agent Ben Purser, 37,
was rushed to Memorial Hospi
tal, treated for wounds to his
back and buttocks. An unidenti
fied young woman wounded in
the leg was also taken to Memo
rial.
“We’re not really sure who
shot who,” said Police Capt.
Sherman Nickens, of the gun-
battle that began in the parking
lot of a McDonald’s restaurant
near the mall and ended in the
parking lot of a Shoney’s restau
rant packed with the Sunday
church crowd.
“In the middle of it, a Good-
lettsville policeman drove up,
not realizing these were FBI
agents, and started shooting,”
Nickens said.
The FBI said it was positive
Latimer was killed by authori
ties, but refused to say who shot
the FBI agent or the woman.
One witness said it was the po
lice officer.
“I thought a car was backfir
ing,” said Don Kelly, eating at
Shoney’s when he heard the
gunfire. “A Goodlettsville guy
shot the guy with the FBI.”
The FBI released a statement
five hours after the shooting.
“A man identified as Robert
Vance Latimer, white male, age
25, was shot and killed at ap
proximately 1 p.m. by FBI
agents and Goodlettsville police
when he fired on agents at
tempting to elude capture,”
according to the statement read
by FBI agent Tom Greuel.
“Wounded in the incident
were an agent and a woman in
the automobile Latimer as at
tempting to commandeer.”
Latimer was the subject of an
intense FBI manhunt, wanted
for unlawful flight and for
wounding an FBI agent. He was
serving time for kidnapping
and armed robbery when he es
caped with Kenneth Lundien,
27.
Lundien was arrested March
10 in New York City — charged
with failing to pay a 90-cenl
subway fare and concealing a
stolen weapon. On Friday he
pleaded innocent to wounding
the agent and abducting a mo
torist in his getaway.
Items in Wilder’s vehicle give clues
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■stigalors tried Sunday to link
tape found in Christopher
Ider’s car to the kind alleg-
ly used by him in a sex-slay-
; spree that ended when he
;d in a struggle with police
Bar the Canadian border.
Iwilder, 39, died Friday of
wdiac obliteration” from two
■mltaneous gunshots fired
from his own .357 magnum re
iver during a struggle with a
burly slate trooper, an autopsy
concluded.
The FBI planned tests on
tape found in the sports car of
the suspected sex slayer to de
termine if it was the same tape
used to bind victims thought to
be among at least 11 women
Wilder was suspected of killing,
raping or kidnapping.
Tests will also be done to see
if glue found in the vehicle is
the same used to glue the eye
lids shut on one of Wilder’s sus
pected victims, FBI special
agent James Greenleaf said.
Officials also found in Wild
er’s car color photographs of
women, receipts, an address
book, a large knife and 49 $100
bills. The photographs of the
women included some as yet
unidentified.
“We’re attempting to deter
mine also whether they were
any additional victims,” Green-
leaf said.
The high-living Australian-
born contractor was the subject
of one of the most intense na
tionwide hunts in recent history
for the slayings, rapes and dis
appearances of 11 women in
eight slates.
The body of Wilder, consid
ered by the FBI as “the most
wanted man in America,” was
held at Newman Funeral Home
in this northern New Hamp
shire lumber town until Wild
er’s brother, who lives in Miami,
or other family members could
be contacted.
The FBI tried to reach Wild
er’s brother, Steve Wilder of
Miami, but he was reported out
of the state, according to Bob
Moore, director of Newman Fu
neral Home. Moore said Wild
er’s parents, who live in Sydney,
Australia, had not been reached
yet either.
Police also wanted to talk to
Leo Jellison, the state trooper
who struggled with Wilder be
fore the fugitive accidentally
shot himself, with one of the
bullets entering Jellison. Jelli
son was resting at Upper Gon-
necticut Valley Hospital
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LOS ANGELES — The
lAACP agreed Friday to end a
"tee-day boycott of McDon-
s hamburgers although the
|st-food chain’s president said
differences with the black
immunity have not been set-
“We’ve had fruitful dis-
ssions ... and we’ve agreed to
ntinue to discuss the issues,”
Sd Michael Quinlan, president
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for blacks to own franchises
outside minority neighbor
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“We’re asking all our
branches across the nation and
here in Los Angeles to cease
thaction against McDonalds be
cause here, today, we’ve begun
a dialogue,” the NAACP leader
said in a brief news conference
before returning to the meet
ing.
Bradley, who is black, called
on the two men to meet face-to-
face after the NAACP ran a full
page advertisement Thursday
in a Los Angeles newspaper
and
promoting the boycott
urging other chapters across
the nation to take part.
Bradley, who mediated the
session between the two men,
said he was “pleased” they
agreed to the meeting and were
willing to continue their dis
cussions.
Dick Starmann, vice presi
dent of McDonalds, has called
the ad and picketing of the
company’s annual convention
in Los Angeles “unfortunate”
and a “smokescreen” to obscure
a legal problem between the
corporation and one of its fran
chise owners who is black.
But the NAACP said it was
questioning the company’s com
mitment to minorities.
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-FORT PILLOW, Tenn. — A
wsse of 35-40 searchers, aided
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Bssible sighting of convicted
[furderer Garry Sanders by a
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nessee last Monday. The other
three were captured within days
of the breakout, the second ma
jor escape at the facility in the
past two months.
Sanders managed to elude a
massive search last week by
hundreds of officers and Na
tional Guardsmen working
around the clock.
Officers said Sanders, 30,
serving life for murder from
Shelby County, could be sus
taining himself with candy bars
saved up before the escape.
A 10-year-old farm youth,
pushing a three-wheel motorcy
cle down a farm track Saturday,
said he spotted a man wearing
blue pants and a blue shirt.
The youngster, who ran cry
ing to a neighbor with the re
port, said the man fled into the
woods after they spotted one
another.
Sanders, officers said, is in
extremely good physical condi
tion, capable of running 26
miles at one time.
Searchers concentrated on
the area of the sighting, a
sparsely populated and remote
woodland about 16 miles east of
the prison.
Yokum said Sunday’s efforts
would concentrate on a section
5 miles around the sighting.
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