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AMILLA, Ga. (AP) — Tornadoes descended on
Georgia early Monday, ripping people from
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the trailer where Janet and
James Madeiras and their
son Travis, 12, had been
sleeping, tossing them out
and knocking the trailer
on top of them.
James Madeiras, 60,
said they had just seconds
to react.
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it, the bed dropped down
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ging,” Janet Madeiras
said.
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thing was gone. You could hear moaning and cry
ing.”
The family escaped without major injuries and
moved into a shelter with several neighbors.
Families of the injured and missing jammed
phone lines and scrambled into hospitals to find their
loved ones.
There were so many injuries, people were sent to
hospitals as far away as Tallahassee, Fla.
Mitchell County Hospital, with only 33 beds, was
swamped with more than 120 injured people early
Monday.
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The storms had knocked out power, and the
small staff of doctors and nurses worked under
backup power from a generator, trying to treat the
wounded and find other hospitals to handle the
overflow.
At Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville,
a lost 4-year-old girl was at first too terrified to tell
doctors her name.
Her mother had not been found Monday af
ternoon.
A preliminary assessment found 198 structures
destroyed and more than 160 damaged, said Ed
Tynes, supervisor of a Red Cross shelter in the gym
nasium of the Mitchell County Middle School.
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LITTLETON, Colo. (AP)—Two Columbine High sweethearts
were found dead early Monday after a shooting at a sandwich shop
within sight of their school, compounding the heartbreak in the com
munity that suffered the worst school shooting in U.S. history.
The bodies ofNicholas Kunselman, 15, and Stephanie Hart, 16,
were discovered inside the Subway shop where Kunselman worked.
Investigators did not disclose a motive but Riled out murder-suicide.
Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesperson Steve Davis said the
cause of death had not been determined, and he said he did not know
whether a weapon had been found. Investigators were reviewing a
videotape from a surveillance camera inside the restaurant.
“I hope it wasjust a robbery,” said one of Kunselman’s co-work-
ers. JJ. 1 lodack, 22. “I've had more than enough of this. This stuff
needs to stop.”
The shooting was the latest in a string of tragedies that have hit
the Denver suburb since teen-age gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine on April 20
and then committed suicide.
Classes remained in session Monday, but at least 100 students
stayed away. Students said some of those who did attend could be
seen crying in the hallways. At least 25 counselors were kept busy
most of the day, said Betty Fitzpatrick, health services director for
the school district.
“It reminds me of everything. It’s just like flashbacks” said
Nathan Vanderau, an 18-year-old senior who knew some of the vic
tims of last year’s shooting as well as Monday’s victims and is in
counseling.
Among the other incidents that have added to the unease in the
community:
• In October, the mother of a student partially paralyzed in the
massacre shot herself to death.
• On Feb. 1, the body of an 11-year-old boy was found in a trash
bin within blocks of the school. No arrests have been made.
• Last week, a Florida man pleaded guilty in Denver to sending
a Columbine student an Internet message threatening to finish the
massacre. The threat prompted officials to close the school for the
Christmas holidays two days early. Fie faces up to five years in
prison.
Friends said Hart enjoyed sports but was quiet and didn’t go out
much except to stop by the sub shop to see Kunselman. He had
worked at the sub shop for only a month but had won the manag
er’s confidence and often was assigned to close the restaurant at 10
p.m., Flodack said.
A Subway employee driving past the store noticed a light inside
the store about 1 a.m. Since the business was supposed to be closed,
the woman stopped, went inside and discovered the bodies.
As investigators worked inside the shop about two blocks from
the high school, Columbine students and relatives of the victims
gathered in the parking lot, placing bouquets just outside police lines.
They also wrote chalk memorial messages.
“Every week, there’s something that happens here,” said Daniel
Baker, who brought three friends to deliver flowers. “This is sup
posed to be a nonnal community.”
Courtney Scott, an 18-year-old cousin of Hart, placed a heart-
shaped bouquet of flowers with a banner reading, “1 love you” out
side the shop. She said Hart was not at Columbine the day of last
year’s shooting.
News of another shooting in Littleton resonated in the Statehouse
in Denver, where the House debated gun restrictions that were draft
ed in part because of the Columbine massacre.
“It’s horrifying to me,” said House Minority Leader Ken Gor
don, a Denver Democrat who sponsored some of the measures. “We
are not getting it done. We are not protecting the people of the state.”
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