State Page 2 The Battalion Thursday, January 27,15 Xhursd Army team to probe into helicopter crash The Associated Press KILLEEN, Texas — An Army investigating team was en route to Central Texas Wednesday to examine the wreckage of a heli copter crash in which two Fort Hood soldiers were killed. The OH-58A Kiowa Scout copter crashed during a training mis sion Tuesday night, said Major Terry O'Rourke, a spokesman for the base. Both pilots were killed. Officials with the Army Aviation Safety Center in Fort Rucker, Ala., will investigate the cause of the crash, O'Rourke said. "We don't expect the results for some time," he said. The wreckage was discovered about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday near Evant, about 35 miles northwest of Killeen. The aircraft was reported missing at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday night by Fort Hood's Robert Gray Army Airfield. It was one of three Kiowas on a training mission by the Combat Aviation Training Brigade. The other two aircraft returned safely to the base. The OH-58 A Kiowa is an observation helicopter used primarily for reconnaissance. It was unarmed. Fort Hood officials did not immediately release the pilots' names. Hutchinson's attorney wants cameras banned from trial The Associated Press DALLAS — Arguing that allowing cameras in the courtroom dur ing U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's trial would add to "the sensa tional atmosphere," her attorneys have asked that they be banned. Dick DeGuerin of Houston, who is leading the Republican sena tor's defense team, also said he is concerned that election opponents might be able to use her taped testimony to their advantage. "There is a likelihood that an opponent would isolate some taped snippet of testimony and put it in a televised political advertisement and repeat it out of context, thus further endangering her right to a fair trial," he wrote in a letter to Judge John F. Onion Jr. Hutchison faces six opponents in the March 8 GOP primary. Hutchison's trial is scheduled for Feb. 7 in Fort Worth. She is charged with four felony counts of misusing state employ ees and equipment and of tampering with government records and physical evidence in an attempted cover-up. She has denied wrongdoing. Onion has not ruled on DeGuerin's request to ban cameras — still or video — from the courtroom. A spokesman for the Travis County District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the case, was not immediately available for comment. Henley’s Paint & Body 775-7912 Expert Color Matching • Complete Collision Repair CHIEF E*Z LINER II - - - c ^, ' * — L # -f' - , 1 Frame Machine JL ...’ . j ; r s— * SIM & Insurance ists 2210 Maloney, Bryan Open 8-5:30 Mon.-Fri. 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Agent Bernadette Griffin testi fied Castillo was holding an AR- 15 or M-16 assault-style rifle when she came within 30 feet of him during a cease-fire after a 45- minute gun battle Feb. 28,1993. Griffin said she and three other officers of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms entered the compound to rescue agent Ken neth King, who they thought was wounded on the roof. Griffin testified that with her gun in its holster, she attempted to climb onto a stove to get up to the roof, but Castillo would not let her. "He said if we wanted to get onto the roof of the compound, we would have to get our own ladder and come back," Ms. Grif fin said. Two agents then left to fetch the ladder and she looked at Castillo for 30 or 40 seconds, she testified. She and another agent then no ticed King writhing in pain on the ground in a compound courtyard and went to help him, she said. "I heard someone say to bring my black ass back out so they could see me," Griffin said, adding that she believed the speaker was Castillo. "I said, 'He (King) is making a lot of noise and he's in pain. We're trying to move him as fast as we can.'" At first, she said, she just stood there. "Blood was dripping down on my head from whoever was on the roof at that time. ... I felt they were going to kill us anyway, so I went back (to help King)," the agent testified. Under cross-examination by Jeff Kearney, Castillo's lawyer, Griffin said she never told Texas Rangers investigators about the "black ass" comment. She also acknowledged telling investigators the Branch Da- vidian man "allowed" the agents to go get the ladder. Griffin said she never saw Castillo shoot at anyone and that the Davidians allowed an ambu lance onto the premises to trans port the wounded agent. Eleven Branch Davidians are being tried on charges of murder ing four federal agents during the gun battle at the religious sect's compound near Waco. Six cult members are believed to have died in the shootout. An ensuing 51-day armed standoff ended when fire en gulfed the compound. Koresh and more than 80 of his followers died The Asfociiti:'; Jaime Castillo (right) has been identified by an ATF agent asoneo Branch Davidians involved in last year's raid on Mt. Carmel. in the blaze. Castillo was the second Davidi- an defendant to be identified in court by a federal agent. Two wit nesses have said they saw Liv ingston Fagan shooting with an assault-style rifle. More than 70 ATF agents, armed and clad in black, arrived at the compound in two cattle trucks that Sunday morning to serve warrants on Koresr weapons possession. Griffin said she was in thq ond truck and was among thej agents out. "When I got off the backej trailer, I was being shot at said. "There were bulletshq the ground all around myil and I was dodging the bullets! Dead woman's body found locked in home The Associated Press GALVESTON, Texas — A man despondent over the death of his wife locked his house and lived in his truck for three months before ac knowledging to authorities this week that the woman was dead and her body remained in the house. Police estimated Jeannette Rios, 57, may have been dead since last Halloween. Her hus band, John, 76, a retired longshoreman, did not report the death to anyone. Authorities say there is no evidence of foul play and they were working to find a perma nent home for Rios. "Basically, the way he described it was that he just couldn't face the fact that his wife was dead," Galveston police Sgt. Jim Franks said Tuesday. "He walked outside, locked the door and hasn't been back in since, he says." 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