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June 13,2ft
THE BATTALION
Two Rhode Island students shot
JOHNSTON, R.I. (AP) —Jason Burgeson's fami
ly spent part of the weekend picking out his casket,
the finality almost too much to bear.
"We can't make sense of it," Kellie Surdis, £6, said
.Sunday of her brother's slaying. "We're just com
pletely shocked."
What began as a night of dancing for the 20-
year-old college student and his friend ended with
the pair kidnapped from downtown Providence,
then taken to a golf course in Johnston and shot in
the head.
The slayings were the first in this community of
26,500 in five years.
, "You can read about it happening elsewhere but
when it comes in your backyard, it frightens you,"
said Johnston Mayor William Macera.
Burgeson, of Lakeville, Mass., and Amy Shute, 21,
of Coventry, were forced at gunpoint into Burgeson's
sports utility vehicle early Friday morning. The car-
jackers took the victims to the golf course under con
struction, then argued about whether to kill the pair.
Burgeson was shot twice; Shute once.
Workers discovered the bodies later that day.
They were together in a "semi-sitting position," said
Police Chief Richard Tamburini.
An engagement ring that belonged to Shute was
found at the scene by investigators.
"She removed it in an attempt to hide it from
the assailants," Tamburini said. The victims, who
were not engaged, were robbed of a small
amount of cash.
Five suspects have been charged with murder,
kidnapping and carjacking and were scheduled to be
arraigned Monday, police said. One suspect was
stopped by police while riding in Burgeson's vehicle
less than an hour after the investigation began. The
others were arrested Saturday.
Burgeson's family said they would push for the
death penalty under a federal carjacking statute. The
statute allows for the death penalty if the crime re
sults in murder. Rhode Island does not have the
death penalty.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
North Korea is holding a summit with
South Korea in the same mysterious
style it has often employed over the
years: With the planned meeting only
hours away, it still refused to an
nounce the schedule.
In South Korea, television showed
images of President Kim Dae-jung
strolling with hi§ wife Monday in the
gardens of the presidential Blue House.
Government officials mingled with jour
nalists at a press cen
ter in a Seoul hotel.
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contrast, there were
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