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DALLAS (AP) — A Houston po-
officer accused of killing a
oman on the side of a freeway
ever showed his identification and
nmdied the woman in the face be-
ore the two exchanged gunfire, a
titness testified Tuesday.
Ida Lee Delaney, 50, was driving
o work Oct. 31 when then-Officer
ilex Gonzales and two other off-
luty officers chased her in an un
narked car after she cut them off in
raffic.
She pulled over in front of a high
way department truck, and the offi-
:ers pulled up alongside.
The defense maintains Delaney
iired first and also shot at the un
narked car during the 12-mile free-
ivay chase. Defense attorneys say
Sonzales acted in self-defense.
Pablo Garcia, a maintenance
irorker with the Texas Department
rf Highways and Public Transporta
tion, and his co-worker were parked
Interstate 45 when Delaney
stopped in front of them and got out
of her truck.
Garcia testified that two men in an
unmarked car also pulled up and ap
proached him, saying they were po
ke officers and asking them to radio
or help. He said one of them said
“I
In the early morning
hours of All Hallow’s Eve,
Ida Delaney ... came upon
every woman’s nightmare.
She was confronted on the
freeway by a number of
unknown occupants.”
— Don Smyth,
district attorney
the woman had been shooting at
them during the chase.
“I didn’t believe they were cops,”
Garcia said. He said one of them
produced an identification card, but
no badge, and said he doubted they
were really officers.
Garcia said Delaney was unarmed,
but returned to her truck after the
unmarked car pulled up. She was
confronted by Gonzales, 25, who
had a gun.
Gonzales prevented Delaney from
dosing the truck’s door, Garcia said.
“Then he hit her,” Garcia said,
motioning with his left hand. “He
just hit her ... like she was a guy —
real hard.”
Garcia said Delaney turned to
grab something after being struck,
and stepped out of her truck bran
dishing a handgun. He said Delaney
fired the first shot, and Gonzales re
turned fire while falling to the pave
ment.
Smyth said Gonzales fired eight
shots and four struck Delaney.
Garcia’s testimony was contra
dicted by Ed Porter, a Harris County
assistant prosecutor, who said he
took Garcia’s statement shortly after
the incident.
Porter testified that Garcia said
previously that Gonzalez struck Del
aney after she turned to grab some
thing from the truck.
In cross-examination, defense at
torney Joe Bailey questioned
whether Delaney was unarmed
when she first got out of the truck.
Bailey said Garcia initially told po
lice he couldn’t tell if Delaney had
anything in her hands when she first
approached the maintenance work-
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AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
Alcoholic Beverage Commission,
which has been emietzed recently
for lax liquor enforcement, has
S posed new rules that would
ladies’ night, 2-for-l dis
and aii-you-can-drtnk
said increasm,
: .; : sure from those groups
affect the timing of the new p:
'These rules are pretty strong
- aimed at cutting out the cx-
| cesses during happy hour without
| banning happy hours alto-
jether,” TABC general- counsel
oc Darnalf said. o x
Additionally, the proposal
would prohibit clubs and taverns
from touting drink prices or
brand names on signs or banners
outside their businesses, the Aus
tin American-Statesman reported
Violence signals gang warfare in Austin
AUSTIN (AP) — Police say an Easter Sunday
outbreak of violence, in which six people were
shot including a 14-year-old bystander, may sig
nal the start of gang warfare in Austin.
The death of Chris Lament Dean, 14, and the
wounding of five gang members in a separate in
cident was the worst outbreak of local gang vio
lence in recent memory, police said.
“If we don’t come in there and put a stop to
this, there’s going to be a lot more shootings,” Of
ficer Robert Martinez said.
Dean apparently was a bystander in a crowd
that gathered to watch a fight between members
of two rival gangs early Sunday in an alley behind
East Sixth Street, the city’s nightclub district.
“The indication is that he was in the wrong
place at the wrong time,” said homicide Sgt. Mike
Huckabay.
Sunday night, five people were shot during a
confrontation between members of two other
Austin gangs at Festival Beach Park on Town
Lake.
Five suspects have been arrested, but none had
been charged in the shootjngs Tuesday, said po
lice spokeswoman Gail Phillips. None of the five
shooting victims received life-threatening inju-
Witnesses to the park shootings said members
of one gang were destroying vehicles belonging
to members of the rival gang with bats, pipes and
crow bars. Dozens of shots were fired when gang
members started shooting, witnesses said.
The Festival Beach fight was a continuation of
gang rivalry for dominance of the park that has
been going on for years, police said.
The shootings also marked the end of a fragile
truce negotiated by police and gang leaders over
the past year. A key point of the truce was open
access to Festival Beach Park, officers said.
The recommendations come
just weeks after the TABU re
jected 15 new rules governing
happy hours and !>ar promotions
that were offered by T exans for
Responsible Alcohol Consump
tion, state parent-teachers groups
and Mothers Against Drunk
re re
take a real ’hard look at
posals,” Kirk Brown, state
man of MADD, said, ;
“Often they sound pretty good,
but they turn out to be full of
loopholes,” he said.
Darnail said 5,000 mixed-drink
establishments and 10,000 beer
and wine outlets would be af
fected by die new rules if they are
approved by the three-member
commission.
. He said neither the alcohol in
dustry nor the citizens groups
would be pleased with the propo
sals. “The businesses may not be
happy with any restrictions, and
the groups won’t think they’re ,
::: : strotigenough^ Darnail said. |||||
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sals has been sche«
House tentatively approves budget cuts
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
House tentatively approved $114.4
million in budget cuts Tuesday to
provide more state aid for schools
and moved toward a showdown with
Gov. Bill Clements over his no-new-
taxes pledge.
Clements, predicting that a half-
cent sales tax hike endorsed by a
House committee Tuesday wouldn’t
pass, said laying off state govern
ment workers is one way more
money could be raised to meet a
court order to reform the school fi
nance system.
“There’s been an unusual amount
of employee growth, so we’re going
Plan could provide school funds
to take a hard look at that,” Clem
ents said. He complained that House
budget cutting fell short of what he
thought could be trimmed.
But Rep. James Hury, chairman
of the tax-writing House Ways and
Means Committee, called the layoff
suggestion “unfair and unkind.”
Hury’s committee voted 8-3 to
send the full House a bill to raise the
state sales tax from 6 cents to 6.5
cents on the dollar.
That increase would raise $480
million to $600 million the first year,
depending on when it takes effect,
Hury said.
“I think that we will pass this reve
nue-raiser and, joined with the cuts,
that we will send it to the governor,”
Hury, D-Galveston, said. “I think the
House is just trying to find a way to
pay for what we passed.”
The bill could be considered by
the 150-member House later this
week. Hury said he didn’t know
whether 100 members would sup
port it, the number required to over
ride the veto Clements has vowed
for any tax increase.
he House has approved a school
reform bill that would cost $450 mil
lion in 1990-91. The Senate went
further, approving
measure.
1.2 billion
A House-Senate conference com
mittee is trying to work out differ
ences between the two, and House
Speaker Gib Lewis said $550 million
is being considered as a compromise
price tag.
Lewis, D-Fort Worth, said the
House failed to find enough cuts to
pay for the education bill.
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