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Page 6 • Wednesday, November 3, 1999 fMSC N EWS TheBJ <^yVocr J ±t-^tfz Today’s eveimts Literary Arts W/oHcTs LongEsi* Poem Honolulu man kills 7 Sentencing begii) lie Battalion 10am-2pm @ Rudder Fountain Film Society TExas Film FES+ival Scr&&nings 11 am-1 pm @ MSC 2 1 6A Town Hall Play Anything ^>ay Anything 1 2pm-1 pm @ Rudder Fountain Employee opens fire on coworkers at Xerox office £qj* tCCIl - cl2C(l Icillfj Losse Film Society Film on Video "Swing Kids" Introduced by “Texas Aggie Swing Cats" 5-7pm @ Flagroom ACE Oiwali FEsTival 1 1:30am-1 pm @ Flagroom Spicmacay 7pm @ Rumors Visual Arts n ^ Kumor s Visual Arts >A/all< by /VnT & Rudder Fountain Daily events listed in the Battalion for more information call IViSC OPAS @ 845-1515 S ^Ol\E & ^Wednesday, November 3rd 0 0 32 oz. CHUGGERS BAR DRINKS ALL NIGHT HONOLULU (AP) — In the latest out burst of workplace violence, a Xerox copi er repairman shot and killed seven co-work- ers in his office building yesterday morning, authorities said. He surrendered after a five- hour armed standoff with police. Police believe Byran Uesugi, a 15-year Xerox employee, shot seven fellow copier technicians at about 8 a.m. (1 p.m. EST) be fore fleeing in a company van with a gun. He eventually stopped several miles away in a residential neighborhood. Police cor doned off the neighborhood and began ne gotiating with him about two hours later. Some five hours after the shooting be gan, Uesugi emerged from the van, walked to the back of the vehicle with his hands raised and then fell down on the ground. His brother had helped in the negotiations. SWAT teams raced toward him with au tomatic weapons drawn. No shots were heard, and no injuries were reported. “It appears as though it was a disgrun tled employee who snapped,” Mayor Jere my Harris said. Police would not comment on a motive, though. Uesugi, 40, was being booked for inves tigation of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory penalty of life without parole. The gunfire erupted in an industrial sec tion of Honolulu, far from the Waikiki tourist district. Five victims were found dead in a conference room, and two other bodies were found nearby. All had been shot with a 9-mm handgun, authorities said. Police found 20 9-mm shell casings at the scene. At Uesugi’s home, they found 11 handguns, 5 rifles and two shotguns. The victims — male Xerox employees — were shot on the second floor of the two- story building, authorities said. They ranged in age from 33 to 58. “It’s a shock for all of us. We have such a safe community, with almost no violent crime,” Harris said. “To have someone snap like this and murder seven people is just absolutely appalling.” Niihau Kauai Oahu HAWAII Lanai ^Maui Molokai 150 miles S ■v Pacific Ocean y Hawaii 150 km Pacific Ocean OAHU Office shooting Hickam ARB. Pearl Harbor if 10 miles Q 10km Honolulu Int’l. Airport Honolulu AP Uesugi was a member of his high-school rifle team and had up to 17 weapons reg istered in his name. “This could have been much, much worse,” Harris said. By late yesterday morning in Makiki Heights, a residential neighborhood near the shooting scene, negotiators were talking with the suspect through a bullhorn. He was seen pacing back and forth outside the van. Police cordoned off a half-mile area around his van, which was near the Hawaii Nature Center. About 60 fourth-graders and 12 chaperones were on a nature hike when police told them to get to higher ground. A school bus with two rifle-toting police offi cers then took the students to safety. A separate group of first-graders on a field trip also were evacuated in the afternoon. About 10 homes also were evacuated. Neighborhood residents set up lawn chairs in the streets to watch the situation unfold. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Rambling journal entries written by a teen-ager who killed his parents and two classmates were read as his sentencing began yes terday, with passages de scribing his feelings of re jection and evil. The day’s hearing ended with the defense playing a tape of a sobbing Kip Kinkel describing to detectives how he shot his mother after telling her, “1 love you.” Kinkel’s journal included repeated threats: "1 am so full of rage ... Blowing the school up or walking into a pep assembly with guns ... that is how I will repay all you ... They won’t laugh af ter they are scraping pieces of their mothers and sisters off the wall of my hate.” Kinkel, 17, hid his face in his arms as the journal en tries were read by sheriff's Detective Pamelia McComas. He faces 25 years to life in prison for killing his parents and going on a shooting ram page at school. Afterward, McComas de scribed finding the bodies of Kinkel’s parents, and a series of students from Thurston High School in Springfield described how Kinkel warned an acquaintance to go home, then pulled a rifle from underneath his trench coat and shot two boys out side the cafeteria. Kinkel then propped IVC I I Fhe Texas iM Football |am (6-2, 3-2 12) will take the University |Nebraska (7-1, Big 12) Satur- in Lincoln, BU and losses by lievv needs just on afid Red Raiders tc open the door to thecaij ria with his foot and opt fire, aiming at individd Eventually, he walkedti one hoy who divedunc| table before Kinkel shen in the back of the head,i nesses said. Springfield police Dal tive Sgt. Richard LI added that Kinkel was® to kick-off at M rying two automaticpisziBO p.m. and | and a knife in additio:||ina^elevisec^£ the rifle and a total of if rounds of ammunition! backpack. H Kinkel’s bound, M ^ wee ' < a 1 journal contained recBP 68 ,? cl l llK t .° for bombs and MoljP 1 ' ^ ai ' u '’ lll | t cocktails, along with’l® 1 ' ^ l1,UM ; ia,uul blings about death anq lence. There werereferd to an unidemi(iedf«i., Bj who gave him toptbiffouVj T ech h , rejected him. Kinkel; that he was drunk made the entry. Kinkel pleadedguiltyS 24 to four counts of mi and 26 counts of atteni murder in the May 1991; ings of his parents andi students at Thurston, as* as attacks on 25 students! a detective. In his plea bargain,Kri agreed to serve 25 year] the murders. 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