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Groups celebrate El Diez y Seis
BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
Various Texas A&M Hispanic or
ganizations celebrated El Diez y Seis
Septiembre, the day Mexico cele
brates its independence from Spain,
Wednesday at Rudder Fountain.
This year marks Mexico’s 177th
year of independence.
Students made sno-cones, played
darts, took part in a cakewalk, took
swings at pihatas and engaged in
face painting, accompanied by a va
riety of mariachi music.
Lori Guzman, Hispanic Busi
ness Students Association treasur
er, publicity chair for Hispanic
Presidents’ Council and a sopho
more business administration and
international management major,
said she thinks this celebration is a
great way to start off Hispanic Her-
itage Month.
“This celebration raises aware
ness about other Mexican celebra
tions besides Cinco de Mayo. It also
helps the lesser known Hispanic
Organizations gain exposure,”
Guzman said.
Angela Castro, program advisor
for the Committee for the Aware
ness of Mexcian-American Culture,
said the Diez y Seis Septiembre cel
ebration is a source of pride for His
panic culture.
“Today signifies an indepen
dence that started to guide us in the
direction that Mexico went," Cas
tro said.
“We also just want to share it
with others across campus."
Margaret Pena, a member of
CAMAC and a sophomore business
major, said students of Hispanic
background and members of the
Hispanic community should re
member their roots.
“This is just a small celebration
reflecting on our past," Pena said.
“More importantly, we have to re
member where we came from to
know where we are headed."
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DNA may help solve Austin murder
14-year-old case will use new gene analyzing technology
AUSTIN (AP) — Police say a
new DNA test may have helped
them solve a 14-year-old murder.
Officers on Tuesday arrested a
man in connection with the 1984
rape and murder of secretary Lau
ren Marie McCarty.
They believe it’s the first homi
cide in Texas solved by an updated
process that matches genetic blue
prints found in human cells from
tiny amounts of blood, saliva, se
men, skin or hair samples.
“We never stop investigating a
homicide, no matter how old it is,”
Lt. David Parkinson told the Austin
American-Statesman in Wednes
day’s editions. “This is a case
where technology finally caught up
with a crime.”
Richard Alan Woods, 42, was
being held in a TYavis County jail
without bond Hiesday, facing
charges of capital murder in Mc
Carty’s death and sexual assault.
The 21-year-old was found beat
en to death in her car behind West-
gate Mall in South Austin on Dec.
22,1984, five days after she was re
ported missing. McCarty was last
seen leaving her job at the Texas
Municipal Court TYaining Center to
run an errand during lunch.
Her family in Lubbock had ex
pected her home for the Christ
mas holidays.
Based on other evidence, police
said. Woods was a suspect in the
murder shortly after it occurred.
In the following months, ac
cording to news accounts, police
took blood, saliva and hair samples
from the suspect, but lab tests were
inconclusive.
Police kept the samples, hoping
developments in forensic analysis
would give them the scientific evi
dence they needed in court.
Those hopes were realized two
weeks ago when the Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety purchased 10
new genetic analyzers for $780,000.
Austin Police Detective Paul
Johnson, who had been assigned
to review McCarty’s death, de
cided to have the Woods samples
re-examined.
In an arrest affidavit for Woods,
filed in Municipal Court, the detec
tive said DPS lab technician Jodie
Williams called him Sept. 9 and re
ported that the state lab had
matched samples from McCarty’s
case to Woods. The likelihood of
the samples matching someone
else is 1 in 16,000, Johnson said.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A man convicted of strangling
his 3-year-old granddaughter after she licked icing off
cupcakes was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday
after jurors rejected the death penalty.
The sentence means David Andrew Douglas, 49, a
restaurant dishwasher, must serve 40 years before he
becomes eligible for parole.
‘‘Realistically, he’ll die in prison,” said his attorney,
Poppy Northcutt.
Douglas was convicted of capital murder Monday in
the Jan. 10,1997, slaying of Shelby Lynne Barrackman.
Prosecutors said he strangled Shelby in a drunken
rage after finding she had eaten the icing off cupcakes
while baby-sitting at his daughter’s house. When he
scolded the child, she began crying and Douglas
‘‘squeezed the life” out of her, prosecutors said.
The child’s body was found later that day in a near
by field and Douglas eventually confessed to the
crime, although his attorneys argued the confession
was coerced.
At trial, Douglas testified he did not remember
killing his grandchild. He claimed he had gotten drunk
off of brandy and blacked out.
‘He did not recall a substantial portion of that
morning” Northcutt said. “It’s entirely possible he
had a blackout.”
But detectives found a paper bag bearing a finger
print of Douglas and containing an empty brandy bot
tle within feet of the girl’s body, buried in leaves.
Harris County Assistant District Attorney Casey
O’Brien rejected Douglas’ blackout story and said he was
disappointed jurors chose life over a death sentence.
‘‘Absolutely he deserved it,” O’Brien said. “Any
body who kills their own fiesh-and-blood grandchild
by strangling them, that’s a pretty violent crime.”
Jurors deliberated four hours before handing down the
sentence. Northcutt said she believed Douglas’ testimo
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