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Wednesday, September 5,199(
Neighbors
give reasons
for suicide
PANTEGO (AP) — An Arlington
man who apparently hanged himself
from a light fixture in a jail cell here
had been depressed in recent weeks,
his neighbors said.
Derek Brady, 24, had been ar
rested on suspicion of driving with a
suspended license and evading ar
rest. Monday, he apparently
threaded the ties of a hospital gown
he was wearing through the wire
mesh of a cell light fixture between
the time he was served breakfast at 7
a.m. and a check of prisoners at 8:30
a.m., officials said.
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Two of Brady’s neighbors, James
and Jennifer May, told the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram in Tuesday’s
editions that Brady’s girlfriend re
cently had moved out and that he
had been depressed.
“He was talking about it,” Jennifer
May said of Brady’s death. “He just
said he didn’t feel like living any
more.”
The Tarrant County Medical Ex
aminer’s Office has ruled the death a
suicide, pending a full autopsy and
toxicology reports expected later
this week.
Brady had been treated at Arling
ton Memorial Hospital for minor in
juries suffered during his arrest
Sunday night. He still was wearing
his hospital gown when he was
booked into the jail, said Doug Da
vis, director of communications for
Pantego police.
Brady had been stopped on a mi
nor traffic violation and at first gave
the police officer a false name, then
jumped out of the car and ran, Davis
said.
Pantego is located about five miles
east of Fort Worth.
Police Beat
The following incidents were
reported to the Texas A&M Uni
versity Police Department be
tween Aug. 27 and Thursday. -
ASSAULT:
• A student was walking across
Joe Routt Boulevard toward the
MSC when a vehicle drove within
a few feet of him.
The pedestrian made an
obscene hand gesture at the
driver and kept walking. A few
minutes later, the pedestrian was
confronted by an individual who
shoved him against the south side
wall of the MSC and threatened
him with bodily injury if he ever
caught him making the gesture
again. The pedestrian did not
want to file charges.
• A man who was hit by an egg
Aug. 17, said he was unable to
give a description of the assailants
or the vehicle they drove. He also
said he didn’t want to file criminal
charges.
ASSAULT/CRIMINAL
MISCHIEF:
• A man reported he was as
saulted by a Hispanic male out
side Mclnnis Hall.
The complainant said he was
pushed and knocked off balance
by the front tire of the motorcycle
the suspect was driving. A short
time later the suspect returned on
foot and verbally and physically
assaulted him. The man then
knocked the complainant’s bicy
cle off a bench and damaged it.
. Later in the day the suspect
was contacted by a UPD officer.
The alleged assailant gave a dif
ferent account of the incident. He
stated the bicyclist verbally as
saulted him and also tried to turn
his motorcycle over because he
was riding on the sidewalk by Mc
lnnis Hall.
DISTURBANCE:
• A large group of residents
from Law and Puryear Halls en
gaged in a small scuffle on the
way back from “All-University
Night.” A resident adviser sepa
rated the group prior to the arri
val of officers.
FELONY THEFT:
• A 1981 Suzuki IS 250 mo
torcycle was stolen from the Coke
Street parking area.
HARASSMENT:
• Three students reported re
ceiving harassing phone calls.
DRIVING WHILE
INTOXICATED:
• Two people were arrested
for driving while intoxicated and |
jailed in the Brazos County Jail.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• A Houston man was jailed \
for public intoxication after a
UPD officer saw him lying on the
hood of a vehicle in Parking Area
56 at 1:29 a.m.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A maroon Eastpak backpack
was stolen from a locker in Sbisa
Dining Hall. Contents included
$125, a wallet, sunglasses, books
and other personal items.
• A woman reported she left a
room at the Heep Center at 3
p.m., and when she returned at 4
f i.m., she was approached by a
riend who had found her wallet
and discovered $ 1 and some loose
change had been taken.
• A woman who reported her
wallet was stolen Aug. 6 from the
Biological Sciences Building-
West, told UPD the wallet and all
contents had been returned to
her Aug. 7.
• Three bicycles were stolen
from areas around campus.
• Three people in the CE/TT1
Building said $3.35 in cash was
taken from their desks in two
rooms of the CE/TTI Building.
Fetal surgery saves
infant lives in womb
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman
whose infant daughter was one of
only a handful of infants to survive
experimental fetal surgery said she
will campaign to make the proce
dure more visible.
“I don’t think a lot of people know
about this, not even some doctors,”
Teri Alexander, 30, of Burleson,
said. “We need to get the word out
so that other expectant mothers fac
ing the same problem can have the
same choice.
which causes the stomach and intes
tines to crowd the heart and lungs.
The defect occurs in about one in
2,220 fetuses. A newborn with the
defect has about a 25 percent chance
of survival and usually suffers se
rious complications.
“I would tell another mother to do
it for her baby. I know it’s painful,
but it’s all worth it.”
Alexander’s daughter, Faith Nic
ole Alexander, was born 2 and-a-
half months premature Aug. 5 at a
Fort Worth hospital, a month after
undergoing experimental surgery
while in her mother’s womb.
Faith became the third infant to
survive the procedure, which was
performed at the University of Cali
fornia Medical Center in San Fran
cisco. Six others did not survive.
The surgery corrected a rare and
often fatal prenatal defect known as
congenital diaphragmatic hernia,
Lora Scott, 26, of Tacoma, Wash.,
said she also agrees the surgery
needs to become more well known.
“I’m glad I went through it, and I
want to pass the word too,” said
Scott, whose daughter underwent
fetal surgery March 3. Hers was the
second successful fetal operation in
the United States.
Alexander said her happiness will
be complete when her daughter is al
lowed to come home. The baby, who
weighed 3 pounds, 2 ounces at birth,
is expected to remain hospitalized at
Harris Methodist-Fort Worth hospi
tal for another six weeks.
“I went to the hospital on
Wednesday, and I held her in my
arms,” Alexander told the Dallas
Morning News in Tuesday’s edi
tions. “It was very emotional.”
The Alexanders are remodeling a
room for the baby.
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Act Now
The Texas A&M University
Police want students to know it is
naive to think the on-campus
community is a safe environment
The following are tips that can
reduce the chances of beconiinga
victim of a property or violent
crime:
• Never prop doors open
This is usually how criminals gain
entry to a residence hall.
Any time the outside doors to
the residence hall are unlockedor
illegally propped open, no one
can regulate the traffic into the
hall. Small pebbles, coins, paper
racks and pizza boxes, or any ob
ject used to leave the door unse
cured, could lead to disciplinan
charges and even eviction froma
hall.
• Never let strangers into the
hall. Phones are outside each hail
for visitors’ use.
• Lock your door even when
you are only gone for a short
time.
• Do not give anyone the keys
to your room or hall doors.
• Report strangers to the hali
staff and the police.
• Report any obscene or irri
tating phone calls to a staff mem
ber and the University Police De
partment.
• Report suspicious activity
immediately to UPD. Remember
clothing, height, weight, direction
of travel and license plate num
ber. These are important to
apprehend offenders.
If you have questions concern
ing residence hall policy, talk with
your resident advisers. For crime
prevention information, contact
the UPD at 845-2345. For emer-
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Three teens
found stabbed
hit by train
LAMPASAS (AP) — Three
County teen-agers found dead alonj
a railroad line apparently were 6
tally stabbed before being hit by
train, authorities said Tuesday.
A preliminary autopsy repof
showed the two boys and a girl'
been repeatedly stabbed and wen
dead prior to being struck by a SanB
Fe Railroad train early Sunday.
A Lampasas County Sheriffs 01
lice spokeswoman, who declined
be identified, said Tuesday a(
ternoon that complete autopsy r(
suits had not been received.
The victims were identified as 15
year-old Christopher Kelsey Hagei
man, of rural Bell County, and
16-year-olds from Copperas Cove
Joshua Post and Manessa Fawn Cat
twright.
The three were last seen ali't
around 4 p.m. Saturday i (
Kempner, Lampasas County Sher
iff s Office spokeswoman Alma Vat
Winkle said.
Santa Fe engineers noticed tin
bodies about 12:35 p.m. Sunday
eight miles east of Lampasas.
Authorities said the three were I 1
by a train that passed through tin
area traveling west around 4:30 aJ
Sunday. The bodies had beet
hurled a considerable distance frof
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