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THE BATTALION
Monday, March 20,D
Maryland standoff continues, 4 loll
Monday, March
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DUNDALK, Md. (AP) —A murder suspect holding three people hostage for a
third day repeatedly fired bursts of gunfire out a window at police Sunday while
breaking offhis telephone contact with negotiators, officials said.
Authorities tried to avoid agitating the suspect, who was believed to be watching
the ordeal on television.
Joseph Palczynski had been on the run since March 7, when police say he kid
napped his girlfriend, Tracy Whitehead, and killed the couple she was staying with
and a neighbor. A fourth person was killed and a boy
was wounded when Palczynski allegedly carjacked a
vehicle, police said.
Whitehead escaped unharmed; police would not dis
close her whereabouts. Palczynski later tied to Virginia,
where he stole guns and forced a man to drive him back
to Baltimore County.
The five bursts of gunfire Sunday morning were the
first signs of activity since Palczynski took Whitehead’s
mother and two others hostage Friday night.
No injuries were reported and police did not re
turn his fire.
“We're asking people not to
make a break. It's danger
ous to go out on the street.”
WED. NIGHT
SPECIAL
Palczynski stopped talking with negotiators for about an hour and a half Sunday
morning, and police moved in with an annored vehicle and a bullhorn to urge him
to resume communications.
“Joby, we need you to pick up the phone,” an officer said over the loudspeaker,
using Palczynski’s nickname. “Come on Joby, pick up the phone.”
Palczynski responded with shots, and the armored vehicle backed away.
He soon resumed talks, but then fired more shots, spokesperson Bill Toohey said.
“Our main strategy is patience, patience, patience,” Toohey said.
After Palczynski returned to the area from Virginia, police searched the area for more
than a week. On Friday, he broke into a house, tied up the occupants and stole three guns.
Fie then shot his w'ay into the home of Whitehead's mother, Lynn Whitehead. Rel
atives said he was holding Lynn Whitehead; her boyfriend, Andy McCord; and 12-
year-old Brad McCord.
Police refused to characterize their negotiations with Palczynski butconfu
that a psychiatrist was helping negotiators. Police have said Palczynski hasbip*
lar disorder, often called manic-depression, which causes extreme mood swing
The 31-year-old unemployed electrician also has a history of convictions fire
sault and battery. Days before the killings, he was charged with assaulting Wft
head but was released on $7,500 bail.
In 1992, he kept police in Idaho at bay for 16 hours follow ing a domestic \ iol«
complaint by a girlfriend. He was finally forcedtfi
with tear gas.
Relatives and friends say Palczynski hassaidii
he would shoot himself or make police shoot himraikj
than go back to prison.
Police had not allowed anyone in or out of the Wu
collar suburb east of Baltimore since the standotfbea
One woman who lives within view ofthebaciol
the house where the hostages were being held mailt!
run for it with her 11-year-old son and lO-montlwII
baby Sunday morning after she heard the shots.
“I’ve been there since Friday,” said an exhaustei
don’t have anything. I need formula. I needb
— Bill Tooney
police spokesperson
and distraught Anna Day. “
ers. I need diapers.”
“I’m scared to leave the kids. We’ve been sleeping on the floor,” she said.
Police urged residents to stay inside where it was safe.
“We’re asking people not to make a break. It is dangerous to go out on the street'
Toohey said.
Throughout the ordeal, friends and relatives called television stations to urge Pi!-
czynski to surrender.
“Every body cares about you. We love you very much," said Ron Messmaruio
said he has been a friend of Palczynski since high school. “You need to clearyi
mind, put down your weapons, let the hostages go. It’s time to end this, buddy.Ya
need to do it peacefully, and you need to do it quickly.”
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ALBANY, Texas (AP) —A 9-year-old Oklahoma
girl remained hospitalized in serious condition Sat
urday after being pinned in the doorway of a restau
rant by an overturned truck loaded with cattle.
Ann Younger, of Hydro, Okla., had just left The
Hunters Inn in Albany Friday afternoon, but went back
inside to tip the waitress when a truck overturned on the
road in front of the business and slid into the entrance.
The girl was trapped 20 minutes while crews
worked to pry her free. She was listed in serious con
dition Friday evening at Hendrick Medical Center in
Abilene.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Xavier
Perez and hospital staff said both of Younger’s legs
were crushed in the accident. Both of her femurs
were broken, and the girl was in surgery for about
five hours.
Doctors had feared they would have to amputate
her left leg, but surgery restored her blood flow.
Perez said the accident was caused by the truck
driver, Stacey Wayne James, “going a little fast for
“I guess these things
happen. I'd give any
thing to be in that little
girl's place”
— Stacey Wayne James
driver of overturned truck
this curve. The trailer tilted on its side and the driver
was unable to regain control.”
A preliminary report says the truck was traveling
“at an unsafe speed.” That doesn’t necessarily ma
the truck was speeding on the 35 mph road, Perez said
A one-ton truck in the parking lot was pushed6o(
7 feet, and the building was pushed olf its foundation,
Perez said.
James, 29, of Wichita Falls, and his 12-year-old
son were not seriously injured. The truck was loaded
with 100 head of cattle. Six died in the accident.
“I guess these things can happen. I’d give anytta
to take that little girl’s place,” James said.
Owner Marvin Presley said cattle began stormiiE
into his restaurant through a hole in the trailer.”!
jumped into the trailer to try to keep them from step
ping on her. It was terrible,” he told [he Abilene k-
porter-News.
Police said the building has been hit at least three
times over the years by vehicles that failed to negoti
ate the curve on U.S. Highway 180, which servesas
the main street through Albany.
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Tourist train halts
for accident injury
FORT WORTH (AP) — The Taran
tula tourist train, which crashed
into a tanker train last week, has
temporarily suspended service
while federal officials investigate
the accident, according to general
manager Mike Schillace.
Service from Grapevine to the
historic Stockyards district in Fort
Worth will resume March 28,
Schillace said. But he declined to
explain why an executive was at the
controls of the train, what the man’s
position is and why injured passen
gers have not been contacted.
At least 14 of the 148 passen
gers received treatment for minor
injuries at local hospitals after
Wednesday’s collision just outside
the Stockyards.
Dennis E. Larson, an attorney
who has previously been de
scribed as the train’s general man
ager, was at the engine's controls,
federal officials said. It was not
known if Larson is licensed to op
erate a locomotive.
The Tarantula resumed opera
tions Thursday, the day after the
collision and derailment, then
shut down Friday, Schillace said.
The Texas Star Clipper dinner train
is also discontinuing operation
during the investigation, he said.
Some passengers told the
newspaper they were upset they
hadn’t been contacted by the train
operators.
ing for three days, police and fed
eral agents on Sunday still had
not found a former Black Panther
connected with the shooting ol
two deputies.
Police have said sympathetic
admirers may be hiding H. Rap
Brown, now known as Jamil Abdul
lah Al-Amin. Authorities said they
believe Al-Amin has left Georgia.
As the deputies approached a
black Mercedes-Benz, the driver
got out and started shooting a
high-powered assault rifle.
Fraternity house
blaze kills two
Ex-Black Panther
remains in hiding
ATLANTA (AP) — After search-
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP)-A
fire in an off-campus fraternity
house killed two people early Sun
day, while others jumped to safe
ty in their underwear from a sec
ond-story window.
The privately owned Tau Kappa
Epsilon house, two blocks from
the Bloomsburg University cam
pus, was destroyed in the 6 a.m.
blaze. Two bodies were recovered
from the wreckage, but they were
not immediately identified.
Two students escaped by jump
ing from a second-story window in
their underwear, and a third fled
out the front door, police said. All
reported awakening and finding
heavy smoke in the building; one
reported hearing a smoke alarm.
Authorities did not immediately
know how many people were in the
house, Hollister said.
Two adjacent townhouses
were also damaged, but no one
in those structures was injured.
The cause of the fire was under
investigation.
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