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776-4835
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700 Anderson, College Station
693-2911
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603 Church Ave., 846-5717
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DETROIT(AP)- After losing thou
sands of dollars in a day of gambling at
Detroit’s brand-new easinos, off-duty
police Sgt. Solomon Bell tried one last
high-stakes hand of blackjack.
He lost.
The decorated officer abruptly stood
up from the table, cried out “Noooooo!,”
drew his gun and put a bullet in head as
other gamblers scrambled for safety.
The death — believed to be the first
suicide inside a U.S. gambling hall
has highlighted concerns about casino
gambling in a city pinning much of its
hopes for revival on three new casinos.
“I predicted this is the kind of prob
lem we would face because of the addic
tiveness of gambling,” City Council-
woman Maryann Mahaffey said.
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was a jovial fellow
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bling or otherwise.
He joined the
Oak Park force
about 12 years ago
and rose from uni-
formed patrol oflfi-
cer to investigator, sergeant and
supervisor. His service record w
blemished.
In 1988 and 1990, he got
awards for arrests in stolen-vehic
es, said Bob Bauer, the depart!
deputy director.
“I just describe him as a good guy,”
Bauer said.
Away from his $63,675-a-year job. the
unmarried Bell kept mostly to himself and
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own demise should
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of the casino.
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Seville and liked to rollerskate.
Co-workers said they knew he occa
sionally gambled, but never saw signs of
a problem.
Then, on his day off, authorities said
he lost $15,000 to $20,000 at the MOM
Grand Detroit Casino, which opened in
July, and the 6-week-old MotorCity
Casino.
At MotorCity, spokesman Jack
Barthwell said, Bell tried various black
jack tables in the high-stakes VIP room
before losing roughly $4,000 on a single
hand at a $ 100-minimum game.
Bell then pulled his gun and fired a
shot into his temple so abruptly the few
players and about 20 casino workers on
the fourth floor had no time to intervene.
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termine what chain of events can
someone to do that,” O’Hare said.
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things playing together. Many times
you have drinking problems or marital
problems.”
A third temporary casino is expected
to open in Detroit this spring. Larger, per
manent casinos with hotel rooms, show -
rooms and other amenities are expected
to open by 2004.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling on Congress to pass
more stringent gun laws, the nation’s mayors displayed on
Thursday a “wall of death,” filled with the names of nearly
3,100 Americans fatally shot since the killings at Columbine
High School.
“Our hope is the tragic message of this wall will not be
missed on Capitol Hill,” Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb
said, standing before a black, 10-foot board with victims’
names recorded in white and the date of their deaths in red.
“It’s time for Congress to do its part.”
Webb, who is president of the U.S. Conference of May
ors meeting here this week, called on Congress to renew its
work on gun restrictions.
Last spring, in consideration of ajuvenile justice bill, the
Senate passed new provisions requiring background checks
at gun shows. But a similar set of proposals died in the I louse
when Republicans complained the measures were too strong
and some Democrats said they were too weak. Work on the
gun legislation continues.
The bloodshed didn’t end with Columbine, Webb said,
noting last year’s other high-profile school and workplace
shootings, which included the November slaying of seven at
a Xerox office building in Honolulu.
Mayors are on the front lines of the battle, New Orleans
Mayor Marc Morial said in releasing a survey on gun deaths.
“We attend the funerals 1 ,” he said. “We comfort the families.
We clean up the blood.”
The 3,094 victims’ names and ages on the movable wall
were reported from the group’s survey of 100 cities, which
recorded gun-related homicides from April 20, 1999 the
date of the high school shootings in Littleton, Colo,
through Dec. 31, .1999.
Chicago, with a population of about 2.7 million, was the
largest city in the survey. It recorded the largest death toll at
343. The smallest city surveyed — Superior, Wis., which has
a population of 27,500 — reported a single death.
Eleven cities had no gun violence deaths in the period re
ported, but among the other 89 cities surveyed, not a day
went by without a gun fatality.
The next highest death counts were reported in: Detroit
with 273; Baltimore, 197; Houston, 186; Miami-Dade Coun
ty, Fla., 169; and Philadelphia, 164. Denver, the nearest city
to Littleton, reported 35 deaths.
The victims ranged in age from 2 to 96, but one in three
were 18 to 25 years old.
Most of the deaths were homicides. Not all cities distin
guished accidental shootings or suicides.
The mayors want congressional action on gun control, but
a separate conference meeting on school violence, it was the
mayors who were asked to take action.
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Gun-related deaths
A survey of 100 cities, conduc
after the mass killing at
Columbine High School onAc
20, 1999, found that 3,094
Americans were fatally shotfR
that time through the end oft
year. Here is a look at the
fatalities, by age group.
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21-30 years
31-40 years
556
41-50 years
315
51-60 years
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