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6A Tuesday, September 3, 2002 NATICMATION the battalio-he bait/ 5 Gopher player killed after first gameTh 4303 South Texas Avenue Phone: (9 79 )84e-4459 Bryan, TX 77802-4360 Fa*: (979)691-2733 Texas Ave. at Rosemary Email: bnf@txcyber.com www.brazosnaturalfoods.com Arrested? Driver’s License Suspended? DWI? DUI? Call a Board Certified Criminal Lawyer LANE D. THIBODEAUX Attorney at Law Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization (979) 775-5700 Come to the Stagehand Meeting Tuesday, September 3rd at 7:00 PM in Rudder Auditorium Earns $6.00 per hour Bring 2 forms of identification (Social Security card & Drivers License) ST. PAUL (Knight-Ridder) — Saturday was a night of firsts for University of Minnesota football player Brandon Hall, his first college football game, first tackle of a promising collegiate career, and a home- opener victory that he and fellow teammates celebrated. But by 2:15 a.m. Sunday, all that joy was gone, as 19-year-old Hall lay fatally injured on a downtown Minneapolis street, a gun shot wound to the upper torso. His alleged killers reportedly had robbed and roughed up a fellow Gopher football player earlier in the night, and Hall and five or six other play ers had been summoned to help. But that assistance turned quickly to a confrontation with the alleged robbers and a single shot that struck Hall. For Hall's family, it's hard to believe the 6-foot-5, 270-pound baby-faced man they called “Baby Giant” could meet such a vio lent end. An aunt in Detroit, his hometown, said he had called relatives to say he was feeling homesick not long before the shoot ing. Hall's teammates were left to grieve not even 24 hours after their season had official ly begun. Hall, a redshirt freshman backup defensive tackle, contributed one tackle to the Gophers' 42-0 win over Southwest Texas State. “We've lost a family member,” Gophers Coach Glen Mason said at a Sunday-morning news conference to announce the tragedy. “It’s tough dealing with these kids. They're kids. They're look ing for help. And we intend to give them all the help we can in dealing with this loss.” Helping a teammate It was a little after 2 a.m. Sunday in the Warehouse District when several Gophers football players were sum moned to help a teammate, according to Minneapolis police. That teammate, whom police and school officials are not naming, had reportedly been robbed by three men and punched by at least one of them, police spokeswoman Cyndi Barrington said. She would not say what had been taken. Hall and the other football players had gathered in a parking area near Third Street and Hennepin Avenue when the victim spot ted his attackers. The men walked toward the suspects, who hurried toward a parked van, police said. One of the suspects opened the van door and reached inside. He then turned and approached the football players. Minnesota Gopher Brandon Hall (71) ptays dur- ing the Gopher's victory over Southwest Texas “Someone in the group said, ‘He's got .» gun! He’s got a gun!" and they scattered,’ Barrington said. “Even though Brandon was running, the suspect was still able to aim and shoot.” A police officer arrived in less than a minute, Barrington said, part of beefed-up nighttime patrols dow ntown. In fact, an offi cer in the area heard the fatal shot. Bill Kummer. 53, was getting ready for bed in his ninth-floor apartment off Third and Hennepin when he heard something just too loud to be a car backfiring. He went to the window and peered down to Third Street, where a man was lying across a curb. “He was half on the sidewalk, half in the street, and another young man was leaning over him” Kummer said. He watched a handful of men approach the victim. They were upset. Kummer said, and yelling some thing like "This can’t be happening" and “This is a nightmare.” He was about to call police when a squad car, and then three others, pulled up. "One officer (tried) to do some kind of chest com- I OS AN< ■inesdav. .1 ftkson v** Ai icrican Idt T w inner's ! H than two v Bulls after tl ■ hat's the ■ lists in 1 O' Belt started ■ stars hopit S to H>\ltei that? ^B top eontC' j^iBeaieers it h a sometin B. sa\ Hot B produeer Hie Bjeslown. 1 ■Meson, lev. »' l itis prog ■ great platfo ■ 't guarantee jjlhgoe. ' I Ik day. and ntlsie and the ^Ujg<|ng to do tlu kKioocd fBillboard’s State University on Saturday Hall was shot arc 'ion really killed by robbers earty Sunday morning ^ J ; , / t»o —17“ Ttade and it pnession some kind of C rK, he said . - , , An ambulance armed to take Hal, B |, bo , irtl S inc Minneapolis Hennepin Counts Medr. ,X lble anyv Center, where he was pronounced dead ; b . , s (re as the suspects Police arrested Lee ErIBlndependen Cain Jr.. 3 n . Raymond Hardimon. 23. aE wbc) bas WO rk Jermaine Octasious Stansberry. 28: rec j gjjg ered the gun: and imptninded the van. Pole: Jennifer Lopes would not s.iy which of the men was v. tbaI lbe show’s pected of firing the fatal shot Ml ttowwH 11 ah ead being held in Hennepin County Jail onAmelins said ptctoti of probable-cause murder. All three suspects have lengthy n; ling to Minnesota databases of Criminal Apprchensic* ue Hardimon w as convicted b Mil of drug possession. 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