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Page 6A STATE Tuesday, Sepie.nber^ Tu , sday- Septembe THE BATTALION Killer sentenced in Del Rio Ex-carnival-worker-turned-convict faces jury Conroe smog hearings criticize!!™?? DEL RIO (AP) — A poised but tearful 11 -year-old girl told jurors how she lay in bed terrified as an intruder slashed the neck of her friend before coming after her. Next the jury heard videotaped and written confes sions from Tommy Lynn Sells, a 36-year-old drifter and former carnival worker. After three days of testimony, jurors were set to be gin deliberations Monday in the capital murder trial of Sells, who has confessed to at least a dozen murders across the country over the last two decades. Sells has been charged only in two cases — the slay ings of 13-year-old girls in Lexington, Ky., and just out side of Del Rio, on the border 160 miles west of San An tonio. His trial in the Dec. 31 killing of Kaylene Harris began last week in Del Rio. The ex-convict is accused of breaking into her fam ily’s mobile home while her father, an acquaintance of his, was out of town. If Sells is convicted, he would face lethal injection or life in prison. Sells admitted climbing into a window and going to the girl’s room while her mother and four other children slept elsewhere in the house. He said he got into bed with the girl and sexually as saulted her, then cut her throat with a butcher knife. He said he then slashed the neck of a girl who was sleep ing above Kaylene on a bunk bed — Krystal Surles, who was visiting from Kansas. Krystal, who survived and provided investigators with a description that led to Sells’ arrest, at times cried and at other times looked Sells in the eye as she re counted the attacks for jurors. Sells pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the at tack on Krystal but pleaded innocent to capital murder in Kaylene’s death. For Sells to be convicted of capi tal murder, jurors must find that he committed another felony in the process, such as sexual assault or burglary. Sells’ court-appointed attorney, Victor Garcia, worked to show that there was no evidence of sex ual assault and suggested that Sells was pressured into making the admission. CONROE (AP) — Plans to end Houston’s dubious distinction as the nation’s smog capital by re stricting highway speeds and limit ing construction work were criti cized at a public hearing on the matter Monday. “Someone is missing the boat,” Jay Hubbard, 76, said of restric tions on morning work for con struction. “Whoever wrote the limits hasn't been working in our 108-degree weather.” Proposals under consideration would bring Houston and the seven surrounding counties into compliance with federal clean air standards by im posing, among other things, unprece dented restrictions on highway speeds, limits on when construction crews could operate heavy equipment and when homeowners could use gas- powered lawn mowing equipment. “Very few are not controver sial.” Ralph Marquez, commis sioner of the Texas Natural Re source Conservation Commission said last week. “I expect more crit icism than compliments.” last mo year as the city rej t days in violation offe< standards, a notoriety i became campaign fodder against Gov. George W. Bush,? >mog arreste ndanf DES MOIN Ifouple has be “1 might need a bodyguard," he Repub lican presidential noiii added, laughing. And af ter returning the ozonei The Conroe hearing, which earlier this year to Los Angel drew about 150 people Monday. Houstc >n this month reclaimedi2 was the first of 14 hearings over exceed ing national smog stands the next eight days. Commission for a 3' 7 tli day. officials said they anticipated large Slat e officials in December ml turnouts, but not a terribly friend presen' t a plan to the Environrs? ly welcome. tal Pro' lection Agency or risk® “Generally speaking, when you tions h ike loss of federal high! have a clean air plan that goes as far money . limits on industrial grotj as this one does, we’re now entering over of the state plant))! the arena where you're actually af federal i agency. fecting an individual’s activity during the day,” said Patrick Crimmins, a plan is designed to con; te federal Clean Air Adi spokesman for the commission. “Can bring It :\ els of ground-level ozat he mow his lawn? 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