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    Page 6 • Monday, November 8, 1999
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WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas “He’s been looking forward to Laird’s parents have shielded the "We just cherish the |
(AP) — A bullet ended the football
career of Brewer High School sopho
more Justin Laird, but it did not
keep him off the field for the team’s
season finale.
The 16-year-old made a pledge
to himself Sept. 16, the day after
a shooting rampage at Wedgwood
Baptist Church that left him para
lyzed from the waist down, to at
tend Brewer’s final game against
Saginaw.
On Friday, the former junior-var
sity lineman — wearing his No. 55
jersey — was back on the field for
the coin toss. Afterward, his father
wheeled him back to his place in the
south end zone.
this night for a long time,” his moth
er, Lori Laird, is quoted as saying in
Sunday editions of The Dallas Morn
ing News. “It’s just good for him to
be out of the rehab clinic and be out
here to enjoy a night of Texas high
school football. This was his goal
when he started rehab, so now he’s
achieved that one. ”
His next goal, she said, is to
be home in January and return
to the Brewer campus for the
next semester.
“It’s not so much the school work
that he misses,” she said. “He just
wants to get back here and hang out.
Be a normal teen-ager. ”
shy teen from the media. They want
his life to be as normal as physically
possible. But he has agreed to do one
interview with the Channel One Net
work that will be aired nationwide
in high schools.
Laird had just gotten his driver’s
license on Sept. 15 hours before
making the regular Wednesday
night visit to Fort Worth’s Wedg
wood Baptist Church. Then, one
shot changed his life forever.
The Lairds realize how fortunate
they are that he survived Larry Gene
Ashbrook’s rampage, which killed
seven and injured six others.
“1 don’t think any of us have
ever been angry,” his mother said.
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DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors are to meet
Wednesday with a judge who declared a mistrial
in the capital murder trial of Leon David Dorsey,
a man accused of killing two people at a video
rental store in April 1994.
After two days of deliberations, jurors told state
District Judge Manny Alvarez Saturday that they
were split 11-1 for conviction.
“They were hopelessly deadlocked,” Alvarez
said. “It was disappointing to me that it happened.
We spent a lot of time and money on this case.”
“We’ll have to start all over,” he said.
Prosecutors said they plan to retry Leon David
Dorsey IV, 23.
He’s charged in the robbery and fatal shooting
of Blockbuster employee James Armstrong, 26,
who was assistant manager of the store in Dallas’
Casa Linda area. Another employee, Brad Lindsey,
20, also was killed.
Dorsey will remain at Lew Sterrett Justice Cen
ter until the case is resolved, said his attorney,
Doug Parks. The suspect is serving a 60-year sen
tence for an unrelated murder of a convenience
store owner in Ennis.
The seven-woman, five-man jury deliberated
more than five hours Friday and said twice it was
at an impasse.
After two hours on Saturday, jurors said they
had no hope of reaching a verdict.
When Alvarez granted the defense motion for
a mistrial, Lindsey’s mother rushed out of the
courtroom, saying she was too angry to talk about
the case.
“It’s real frustrating,” lead prosecutor Toby
Shook said. “It’s been five and a half years since
their boys were killed. My heart really goes out to
them [the relatives].”
Jurors declined comment as they left the Frank
Crowley Criminal Courts Building. Attorneys, who
spoke with jurors about their deliberations, said
they promised the judge that they wouldn’t dis
cuss why the panel deadlocked.
Parks said only that the juror who held out sim
ply was not convinced by the prosecution that
Dorsey was guilty.
The defense maintained that the prosecution
had no physical evidence linking Dorsey to the
crime: no fingerprints, no weapon and only a
fuzzy tape from a store surveillance camera.
No charges were filed for four years after the
slayings until the case was assigned to two veter
an detectives who said Dorsey confessed after he
was re-questioned about the case.
The judge said he and the lawyers in the case
have other trials scheduled, so he did not expect
to schedule a retrial before February.
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HOUSTON (AP) — More than 100 people
peacefully picketed one of the nation’s largest
churches yesterday over a booklet that calls
upon Southern Baptists to pray for Hindus’
deliverance from the “power of Satan.”
“We want all people to understand that re
ligious intolerance is rearing its head in this
country,” Houston attorney Amit Misra, a
leader of the coalition of local Hindu groups
who organized the protest said.
“Some people aren't aware of the type of
hate that is being preached by mainstream
churches.”
The booklet, distributed recently to coin
cide with Divali, the major Hindu festival of
lights, said Hindus have no concept of sin or
personal responsibility and “worship gods
which are not God.”
“Pray that the darkness and the power of
Satan will be broken,” the guide asks.
Similar guides have been published previ
ously by the Southern Baptist Convention’s In
ternational Mission Board asking Baptists to
pray for the conversion of Jews and Muslims.
A booklet focusing on Buddhists is upcoming.
Second Baptist Church members said they
were aware last week of the planned demon
stration outside of the massive west Houston
church complex.
“1 think it is our God-given responsibility
to pray for them to be converted,” Second
Baptist member Tara Imani said after speak
ing to one woman who was demonstrating.
“She asked me what 1 think about [the Hin
du belief there are] many paths,” Imani said.
“I said that there is one path. If there were
many paths, then [Christians] would be fools.
If they were right, it would mean Jesus was a
liar, God was a liar. ”
Imani added that she was at first enraged
when she saw the picketers, carrying signs
with*messages such as “Religious intolerance
is un-American.” However, she noted that the
protesters’ presence could allow them to “see
a little of Jesus in our eyes and hearts.”
Misra said he has no problem with the
Baptist belief in proselytization, but that the
booklet is a hurtful example of carrying out
the mission.
At least one leading Baptist agreed.
“We believe we ought to preach the Gospel
to everybody, too,” Rev. Charles Wade, the
pastor of First Baptist Church of Arlington and
executive director of the Baptist General Con
vention of Texas said. “But we don’t agree
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