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postal worker opened fire today in
a crowded post office, critically
wounding two women before
shooting himself to death as terri
fied customers fled, authorities and
witnesses said.
The man came in the office
about 1 p.m., walked out from be
hind the counter and shot the two
women in the lobby, said Bobby
Hernandez, a police spokesman.
“He came around the counter
and shot each victim once,” said
Hernandez. “He exited the post
office, went to a tree, looked up in
the air and shot himself in the
face.”
Hernandez said the women were
believed to be customers but police
had no information on whether the
gunman knew the women.
He couldn’t confirm the account
by one witness that a woman’s com
plaint about mail service preceded
the shooting.
“A lady in line was complaining
that the post office workers were
too slow, she was protesting loud
ly,” said Indy Rivas, a store worker
from across the street who said she
was there to check her mail.
Amy Reed, another witness who
works nearby, said she saw people
fleeing the post office.
“1 heard a lot of commotion,” she
said. “Dogs were harking, people
were screaming and running to
wards me.”
Lorraine Nelson, spokesperson at
Jackson Memorial Hospital, said the
two women who were shot “are in the
operating room in critical condition.
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“My understanding is that the
third one is at the scene,” she said.
An hour or so after the shootings, a
body lay in the parking lot, covered
with a tarp.
The scene is only a few blocks
from the Oceanside mansion where
designer Gianni Versace was shot to
death in July. The suspect, Andrew
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia may fine two of its own cos
monauts for history’s worst space collision, rejecting the
veteran crew members’ claim that Mir’s worn-out
equipment was to blame, an overseer of the space sta
tion said Tuesday.
A space commission concluded “beyond any doubt”
that Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin caused the
damaging June 25 crash, according to Valery Ryumin,
the Russian coordinator of the Mir-NASA program. The
collision occurred during the practice docking of an un
manned robot spacecraft to the aging space station.
“Personally, we felt pity for the boys, but the facts re
main,” Ryumin told the ITAR-Tass news agency. “Most
likely we will have to fine them.”
Russia has a history of rewarding and punishing its
cosmonauts financially, with cosmonaut Gennady
Strekalov saying he was stripped of some benefits for
refusing to make an extra spacewalk from Mir in 1995.
The space program has an elaborate bonus system
that includes not only hazardous-duty pay, but specif
ic payments for such tasks as spacewalks and manual
dockings. For example, Russians earn an extra $1,000
for each spacewalk.
American astronaut Michael Foale, who rernaii
aboard Mir, was the third member of the crew at
time ofthis summer’s accident. However, he — likeot
er visiting astronauts — is not usually involved in ope
ating or maintaining Mir.
Lazutkin and Tsibliyev returned to Faith after the eras
which tore open the hull of one of Mir’s modules and a
(lie space station about half of its power for weeks.
The conclusions of the commission, which Ryum
said signed off on its report Ihesday, are unlikelytop
all questions about the collision to rest.
Skeptics could argue that Russia has a vested inte
est in finding that technical problems aboard Mir—
cash cow for their struggling space program — did n<
cause the collision.
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look for scapegoats,” Tsibliyev, the Mir command!
said after returning to Earth on Aug. 14.
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Mir was plagued by breakdowns throughout thecrew
six-month mission. “Such a categorical conclusionth
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PARIS (AP)—A French judge de
clared seven paparazzi to be
manslaughter suspects TUesday in the
death of Princess Diana, including
one aggressive photogr apher said to
have felt the dying princess’s pulse
while snapping shots of the car wreck.
A lawyer for one photographer-
dismissed the investigation as “the
ater justice,” a sop to public outrage
over the fact Diana, her millionaire
boyfr iend and their driver were killed
while being chased by paparazzi.
But an attorney for boyfriend
Dodi Fayed’s father, Mohammed A1
Fayed, said there was “causality” be
tween the photographers’ pursuit
and the fatal crash, and the elder
Fayed was joining the case as a civil
party to prove it.
Fresh disclosures, however, point
ed anew at a combination of deadly
factors in Sunday’s accident, includ
ing the apparently drunken condi
tion of the driver, a Fayed employee.
A Paris newspaper reported chauf
feur Henri Paul’s blood alcohol level
may have been almost four times the
legal limit at the time of the crash —
higher than originally believed.
The photographers who went
before the judge Tuesday, one by
one, all had been in custody since
being arrested at the crash scene
Sunday morning.
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under formal investigation lor“ii
voluntary homicide” —‘the Frenc
equivalent of manslaughter. It dof
not mean they will necessarily be fo
mally charged with any crimes. .
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failing to aid people in danger,
crime under the French “Goo^
Samaritan” law requiring onlooker
to assist victims of road accidents.
All were freed, two on bond. Botl
involuntary homicide and Gooc
Samaritan violations can be pmv
ished by up to five years in prison and
fines of almost $100,000.
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