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Suspect remains silent
as victim fights for life
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A for
mer mental patient accused of
wounding four people during a
shooting spree kept his silence
Thursday while a victim struggled
for her life, authorities said.
The suspect, Marvin Duncan, 55,
described by family members as hav
ing a history of mental problems,
was shot in the left thigh by officers
and was in good condition at Medi
cal Center Hospital, hospital spokes
man Inez Eisazadeh said.
Duncan has been charged with six
counts of attempted capital murder
and his bond was set at $ 1.5 million.
He is accused of leaping from a
taxicab with .357-caliber Magnum in
each hand and shooting four people
and at two officers during a five-
minute rampage near the Alamo
Wednesday.
Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Buske
said Thursday the gunman had not
discussed the shooting with officers
from his hospital bed.
“I talked to the detectives a while
ago and they still don’t know why
this happened,” Buske said.
Meanwhile, Deborah Reyes, 29,
who had tried to hide from the gun
man, was shot in the chest and stom
ach and remained in critical condi
tion at Brooke Army Medical Center
Thursday. She was expected to be in
the intensive care unit for several
days, hospital spokesman Robert
Clark said.
Two other victims, Ilian Niaves,
17, and Toni Longoria, 17, who each
suffered gunshot wounds to their
right legs, were released from the
hospital Thursday. A third victim,
Alton Watson, 16, who suffered a
graze to his right ankle, was treated
and released from a hospital
Wednesday.
Buske said the gunman took a tax
icab to the downtown area about 9
a.m. Wednesday and as it ap
proached a corner the man began
shooting at people.
The man then got out of the taxi
cab and shot four people before
Donald Kawazoe, a policeman on his
way to work, saw the man and or
dered him to stop, authorities said.
The two traded shots and the
gunman fled and was confronted by
Park Ranger Bennie Burley. They
also exchanged gunfire before the
gunman was arrested, authorities
said.
Buske said Thursday the gunman
was trying to reload one of his weap
ons when he was shot.
“It’s going to be difficult to deter
mine who snot him because he had
an entry and exit wound,” Buske
said. “We might be able to tell by the
trajectory of the bullet, but we still
haven’t ruled out that he may have
shot himself in his haste to reload his
weapon.”
Buske said the gunman was able
to conceal the weapons because he
was wearing a long raincoat and had
two holsters tied to his belt and
strapped to his legs with electrical
wire.
Police said that Duncan had a his
tory of arrests dating back to 1973
and court records indicate that he
was placed in the Ruske State Hospi
tal for the mentally or criminally in
sane in October 1980.
University officials test food
in check of student illnesses
ABILENE (AP) — Officials at
Hardin-Simmons University were
conducting interviews and testing
food samples in the school cafeteria
Thursday as they investigated a
wave of sudden illness among stu
dents.
More than 100 dormitory stu
dents were affected by the symptoms
that may have been caused by some
type of food poisoning.
Those stricken included five men
on the university’s basketball team,
scheduled to play Mercer University
in a Trans America Athletic Confer
ence match Thursday night.
The players, however, said they
planned to play in the game despite
their illness.
The students became ill at Har
din-Simmons Wednesday evening,
and officials said Thursday they
were trying to determine whether
food poisoning was to blame.
Forty of the students were taken
to hospital emergency rooms for
treatment Wednesday evening and
one was hospitalized, officials said.
The student was in good condi
tion Thursday afternoon and was
expected to be held until this morn
ing for observation, said Ross John
son, HSU’s vice president for stu
dent development.
“At this time we cannot say
whether it is food related or some
kind of virus that’s causing the
symptoms,” Johnson said.
He said officials became suspi
cious that food poisoning may have
been involved when students in seve
ral residence halls began com
plaining of diarrhea, vomiting,
cramps and fever.
“I would assume personally that it
would be OK to go eat in the cafete
ria,” said Johnson, who added that
more than 150 students had break
fast there Thursday morning.
He said city and state health de
partment officials were taking sam
ples of food stored at the school caf
eteria to check for possible bacteria
growth.
ARA Food Services, which pre
pares and serves meals on campus,
also was checking on the condition
of foods still in storage at the univer
sity to determine its quality.
College officials say an average of
700 students at the university —
about one-third of HSU’s enroll
ment — eat in the school’s cafeteria
each day.
ARA also supplies Abilene Chris
tian University, which has not re
ported similar cases of illness.
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