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found dead in Clear Lak
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By Pam Easton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Houston
police identified four young
people found shot in a Houston
home last week while the Harris
County medical examiner’s
office worked Sunday to com
plete their autopsies.
Tiffany Nichole Rowell. 18;
Marcus Ray Precella, 19; Rachel
Ann Koloroutis, 18, and
Adelbert Nicholas Sanchez, 21,
were all found shot multiple
times Friday in a small tan wood
and brick home on a tree-lined
street in a south Houston suburb.
Houston police homicide detec
tives said besides being shot
multiple times, two of the four
had been struck in the head with
something.
Harold C. Jordan, a senior
investigator with the medical
examiner’s office, said prelimi
nary autopsy results would like
ly not be available until at least
Monday.
Meanwhile, Houston police
continued to search for clues in
the case.
Houston Homicide Sgt. Tom
Ladd said no suspects had been
identified and a motive
remained unknown Sunday.
A friend of Rowell’s, Kyle
Clement, said he had seen
Rowell, Precella and Koloroutis
two days before they were shot.
He said Rowell was a sweet
girl.
“She never had a bad bone in
her body,” Clement said. “She
always had a smile for every
body.”
But Clement said he believed
the trio had some shady
acquaintances.
“I know they were messed up
with some bad people,” he said.
“1 know especially Marcus was
messed up with some bad peo
ple.”
Precella’s aunt, Yolanda
Romero, said Sunday her
nephew was a good person who
struggled to graduate from an
alternative school but ultimately
did in 2000.
“He was with Tiffany for
almost four years,” she said.
“They were inseparable.”
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I know they were
messed up with
some bad people.
Kyle Clement
fnend
Romero said her nephew
often stayed at the home owned
by Chester Rowell, a music
instructor at San Jacinto College,
where Precella attended school.
Rowell’s neighbors said over the
weekend that Tiffany Rowell lost
her mother to cancer and Chester
Rowell remarried, but allowed
his daughter to remain at the
home so she could graduate with
her friends from Clear Lake
High School. They said Rowell
checked in on his daughter.
Neighbors Angel Amador
and Doyle Smith discovered the
bodies Friday evening after
some of the victims’ friends ran
from the home screaming ill
those inside had been shot.
Charles Rowell, who neigk-
hors said was out of town, I
not immediately return a
message left at the Clear Li
home, where neighbors
they found his daughter
Precella still sitting on lit
couch, both with bullet
Amador said Koloroutis was
found face down in a p
blood in front of the TV,
was still on. Sanchez was
behind the couch, also
neighbors said.
Romero said her nephew «
happy and didn’t express aro
concerns to her.
“He struggled but he »
ceeded,” she said. “No
how hard he was trying he w
doing the best to do good.”
Precella pleaded guilt
March 2001 to burglary
vehicle and was placed on
bat ion for 18 months,
to court records.
Amador described Tiffam
Rowell, who he has known sk:
she was 10, as a polite girl wh
didn't cause any problems.
Koloroutis’ home phos;
number was unlisted and lie:
parents could not be reachedfe
comment Sunday. Sanchez ali)
has an unlisted number.
The Houston Chronicle
reported in Sunday’s editioc
that Rowell and Koloroutis U
been working at Club Exotic:,
an adult entertainment club,as
waitresses. When the pairfaild
to show up for work Frida)
evening, co-workers; told|k
newspaper they tried contacts
the girls, but got no answer.
Palestine outlaws violent groups
By Joseph Coleman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority on
Sunday outlawed groups that espouse violence,
moving to meet a key Israeli demand for action
against militants and boosting a U.S.-backed peace
plan.
The decree — which came as Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian premier
Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem — is identical
to one issued in 1998 but effectively rendered
invalid during 33 months of violence that followed
the collapse of American peace efforts.
In violence late Sunday, a Palestinian was
killed while setting off a bomb aimed at an Israeli
army vehicle near Jenin in the West Bank, the mil
itary said. No one else was hurt.
Sharon and Abbas met for two hours at the
Israeli leader’s official residence just days before
twin summits in Washington between each leader
and President Bush. Talks centered on Israel’s
demand the Palestinians disarm militants, and
Abbas’ demand for the release of thousands of
Palestinians in Israeli jails.
No bold steps came out of the meeting.
Sharon’s office said afterward that he had pledged
to consider Palestinian requests for additional pris
oner releases, further Israeli withdrawals from
Palestinian towns and the dismantling of Israeli
roadblocks in the West Bank and Gaza.
Palestinian lawmaker Saeb Erekat said the dele
gation called the meeting “a disappointment”
because action was delayed until after the meetings
in Washington. Abbas will hold White House talk
with Bush on July 25; Sharon meets him July 29.
The violence that has wracked the Mideast
since September 2000 has dropped considerably
since Palestinian militant groups declared cease
fires June 29. Islamic Jihad and Hamas declared!
three-month truce; Arafat’s Fatah movemef
called a six-month one.
But disagreements have stalled progress on tit
“road map” peace plan, which calls forendinw-
lence and creating a Palestinian state by 200;
In an effort to satisfy Israel, the decree i:
Sunday by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
“incitement that encourages the use of
that harms the relations with foreign countries'
and says violators would be judged according
Palestinian law.
In language that seems directed at milita
groups, it also bans “illegal organizations tf
encourage violence and arouse the public to bring
about change through force” and “incitement ttat
encourages the violation of the agreements signed
by the PLO and foreign countries.”
The Palestinian news agency Wafa, whichcar-
ried a text of the decree, said it was issued
Arafat to reaffirm the 1998 ban. The move folk
a Palestinian statement Saturday pledging to
restore law and order in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli statement after the Sharon-A
meeting did not mention the decree, but rept
the demand for more action against militants,
have killed hundreds of Israelis over the past three
years.
“The prime minister told his counterpart
the Palestinian Authority must act immediate!) 1
and in a clear-cut way to dismantle the teirot
organizations,” the statement said, setting i
action as a condition for further Israeli moves
Palestinian Information Minister Nabil /
speaking in Ramallah, appealed to the U.S. gov
ernment for help in winning Israeli implementa
tion of the plan.
“We need all the support from our friends the
Americans ” Amr said.
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