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Page 8
THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 2,;
2 dead, 3 wounded in shooting
Pennsylvania man opens fire at two fast-food restaurants
mrsday. Marcl
WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A
man set his apartment on fire today,
then shot lunchtime customers at two
fast-food restaurants and holed up in an
office building before surrendering.
One person was killed and four criti
cally injured.
The suspect, who had held four or
five hostages, surrendered in a hallway,
said Thomas Sturgeon, superintendent
of Allegheny County police. He con
firmed one person was killed before the
suspect went to the office building,
which houses day care and senior citi
zens’ centers.
The hostages were safely released
when the man surrendered, State Police
Trooper Jim Algeo said.
The rampage began at about 11 a.m.
in Wilkinsburg, about nine miles east of
Pittsburgh.
John DeWitt, a 63-year-old mainte
nance worker in the suspect’s apart
ment building, said he and two other
workers went to replace the man’s front
door, which had been broken several
days earlier because the man had lost
his keys.
DeWitt told The Associated Press he
left to work on another apartment and lat
er saw one of the other maintenance work
ers carrying the other, who had been shot.
DeWitt said he then saw the tenant walk
toward the restaurants, about a mile away.
Police did not immediately comment
about DeWitt’s account.
The one-bedroom apartment on the
top floor of a five-story building was
charred and its windows blown out.
One person was shot at a Burger
King and at least two at a nearby Mc
Donald’s restaurant, Police Chief Ger
ald Brewer said.
Police did not release further infor
mation about the victims, but a woman
at the scene said her stepfather, Richard
Clinger, was shot while sitting in his van
in the McDonald’s parking lot.
“Me and my stepfather were sitting
in the truck, and this guy just walked up
and started shooting,” said Candy Zam-
bo, who was unhurt. “1 thought maybe
he was going to ask for directions or
something. He just turned and walked
into McDonald's.”
Tony Elhaja, manager of a Dunkin’
Donuts next to the McDonald’s, said the
Shooting in Wilkinsburg
Approx. 11 a.m. EST
A man went on a shooting spree in Wilkinsburg, Pa., wounding three
and killing two. then holed up in an office building before surrendering.
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office building housing a child-care
and senior center.
2 p.m. EST: Gunman surrenders
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Sources: Wilkinsburg Police; ESRI: compiled from AP wire reports
daughter of the man shot in the parking
lot came into his store to wait forpt
“She ran inside and was crying,
haja said.
Brewer said the gunman lied intotlt
office building and remained there wilt
the hostages until he surrendered at
about 2 p.m.
As police surrounded the buildint,'
officers led a group of children away.
Taryn 1 larris said her 2- and 5-year-
old daughters remained inside the day
care center before the suspect surren
dered. “They said they were OK. Iky
just can’t come out,” I larris said.
One person died and three others
were in critical condition at Universi
of Pittsburgh Medical Ccnter-Preshy-
terian, hospital officials said. A 65-year-
old man was in critical condition
Mercy Hospital with a single gunshot;
wound to the head, spokeswoman Lin
da K. Ross said.
As police negotiated with the gun
man. Don Treser spoke on a cell phone
with his fiancee, Janet Lukitsch, who
was on the second floor of the building
at a home health care business.
“They’re OK,” Treser said. “Thisis
awful. You watch this in the movies,Noi
in real life.”
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Lawlessness cited in
severe LAPD scandal
News in Brief
Boeing Co. to declare
impasse in SPEEA strike
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Poor supervision
and a clique culture that encouraged officers to
break rules contributed to the worst scandal in
Los Angeles police history and could take years
and millions to resolve, department investigators
concluded.
Police working in one of the city’s most
crowded, violent and gang-ridden areas “believed
they were in a life-and-death struggle with the
gang element,” said a report from a department
board of inquiry.
The report was released today on the police
department’s Website. It said the scandal might
have been avoided if
supervisors had no
ticed a troubling se
ries of red flags first
raised in the mid-
1980s.
“Pursuits, injuries
resulting from uses of
force, officer-involved
shootings and person
nel complaints had a
clearly identifiable
pattern. ... Yet no one
seems to have noticed
and, more importantly,
dealt with the pat
terns,” the report said.
At a news conference today, Police Chief
The report targeted poor paperwork, lax su
pervision and poor understanding of police rules
and policies. Mostly, it was a case of “people fail
ing to do their jobs,” the report said.
Parks ordered the inquiry by dozens of inves
tigators last fall. Other investigations are still un
der way — a police criminal investigation. In
ternal Affairs review and an investigation by the
Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
The widening corruption probe began in Au
gust 1998, after former Officer Rafael Perez was
arrested for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from
an evidence room. His first trial ended in a hung
jury. Seeking lenien-
“Pursuits, injuries re
sulting from uses of
force, officer-involved
shootings and personnel
complaints had a clearly
identifiable pattern”
— LAPD Board of Inquiry report
cy, he began telling
investigators about
alleged misconduct
among fellow offi
cers, contending they
beat, framed, stole
from and shot inno
cent people in the
city’s crime-ridden
Rampart area near
downtown.
The scandal be
came public in Sep
tember. In all, 20 offi
cers have been relieved
of duty and 40 tainted
Bernard C. Parks emphasized that the scandal in
volved a small group of people and the “other
13,000 members of this department should not be
broadbrushed.” Those people, he said, would
work “as hard as we can to bring back the luster
to the Los Angeles Police Department badge.”
Parks said the report did not include details of
the corruption. He said details were available in
criminal reports that would be released as need
ed for court cases.
The board’s 362-page report was presented to
Mayor Richard Riordan and members of the civil
ian Police Commission on Tuesday. Parks had
briefed the City Council on the report last month,
saying it would recommend more than 100
changes in procedure.
convictions have been overturned. Several hundred
more cases are under review. The LB1 and U.S. at
torney’s office have recently joined the police de
partment in investigating.
Authorities have estimated the financial toll
on the city could exceed $125 million. Perez was
sentenced last week to five years in prison for co
caine theft.
After Perez’s allegations came to light, Parks
ordered a board of inquiry involving dozens of in
vestigators to make a sweeping review of the de
partment. The board recommended 108 changes,
including expanding the use of lie detector tests
and the department’s authority to force the retire
ments of some officers.
The report blamed individual officers rather
than department policies themselves.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Boeing Co. has notified the
union representing striking engineers and technical work
ers that it plans to declare an impasse in labor talks and
try to impose an agreement, a union official said today.
Charles Bofferding, executive director of the Soci
ety for Professional Engineering Employees in Aero
space, said the union received a letter from the com
pany stating its intent. Talks between SPEEA and
Boeing broke off this weekend without an agreement.
SPEEA represents 22,600 engineers and techni
cal workers in Washington, California and Kansas.
About 17,000 remain on strike.
SPEEA negotiators had sought more guaranteed p$
raises and bonuses similar to those received by the
larger Machinists union. Boeing has insisted on most
ly selective pay increases, reductions in life insurance
benefits and some changes in health insurance.
Jury
BY AIN
deliberates Haitian
immigrant torture case
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury began deliberations today
in the case against three police officers charged with
conspiring to conceal the role of one of them in the
police station torture of a Haitian immigrant.
Officers Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese and
Thomas Bruder are charged with covering up
Schwarz’s part in the 1997 attack on Abner Louima.
Schwarz, 34, was convicted last year of violating
Louima’s civil rights by holding him down while another
officer, Justin Volpe, sodomized Louima with a broom
handle in a fit of rage on Aug. 9,1997. Schwarz faces
a possible life sentence for the earlier conviction and
he and the other two officers face up to five years if
convicted of conspiracy.
New G.l. Joe doll honors
WWII Navajo code-talkers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Sam Billison provid
ed the voice and phrases for the “Navajo Code Talker’
G.l. Joe, and he knows of what he speaks.
During World War II, Billison was part of a specially
trained group of Navajo Marines who translated radio
communications into unbreakable codes using the
Navajo language. They were known as code talkers.
The action figure comes with a short history of the
code talkers. Lift the foot-tall toy’s arm and he says sev
en phrases in Navajo, followed by English translations.
“Request air support” and “attack by machine gun'
are among them.
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