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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.
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The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - A federal
agent who entered David Kore-
sh's compound to help rescue a
wounded officer pointed to defen
dant Jaime Castillo on Wednesday
and identified him as the foul-
mouthed, rifle-toting Branch Da-
vidian she encountered.
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."
Franks said Rios told officers he went out
for the day in late October or early November
and w'hen he returned home, he found the
woman dead on the floor.
Sam Popovich, a Galveston County cor:
ble, said neighbors were worried someth]
was wrong because they hadn't seen Mrs :
for some time. Popovich asked Riosabon
wife and the man "broke down" andack]
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and he was ready to do whatever was n?
sary," Popovich said.
Police were called and found the
decomposed body on the floor of the
room.
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