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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1983)
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(AP) — A fired teacher’s aide who blamed students for “mess ing up my career," shot a student and a prin cipal and held student hostages for 9Vi hours at a junior high school Monday before releasing the pupils and fatally shooting himself. The gunman, 24-year-old Robert Wickes, shot himself in the right temple as his lone re maining hostage, a boy, looked on, authorities said. He died at 11:41 p.m. EST, Suffolk County police said. Dressed in Army fatigues and carrying a .22-caliber rifle, Wickes invaded Room 201 at East Junior High on Long Island and terrorized an English class. Wickes ordered a message read on a local radio station in which he threatened to “paint the road with carnage,” and said “You dirty swine. You turned your back so now I reciprocated, you see.” Wickes shot himself just after a local radio station met his request to play the song “Fool ing Yourself” by Styx and to dedicate it to Wickes’ brother and parents. Wickes had threatened to kill himself throughout the day. Dilworth said police became pessimistic when they learned of the song’s lyrics, which spoke of “killing yourself,” and ended, “Just take your best shot and don’t blow it.” Both shooting victims were taken to Southside Hospital, where the boy was reported in stable condition and the principal was in satisfactory condition. Police theorized that Wickes was trying to get revenge after being fired from his job May 5 for getting into an altercation with Louis Borgos, the 15-year-old student he wounded Monday. School spokesman Jerry Steiner said he did not know what that fight was about. Wickes promised to release one student every time his message was read over the air and every time a song he requested was played on the air. “Penny Lane” by the Beatles, “Angie” by the Rolling Stones and “Lonely People” by America were played over the air at his request. Suffolk County police spokesman William McKeon said when Wickes entered, he ordered the teacher to leave the room, then shoved her out of the room when she ran to an intercom to summon help. Wilfred Mercado, 15, of Bay Shore, said Wickes then ordered everyone on the floor and told the class: “I’m not leaving here alive. You kids messed up my career." Court upholds paternity case ruling WASHINGTON (AP) - An Oregon court ruling that in digent men are not always en titled to free legal aid in pater nity suits was upheld Monday by the U S. Supreme Court. Without comment, the court rejected an appeal by the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The appeal arose from a 1980 paternity suit filed in Multnomah County, against Jeffrey Stoutt, then 18 and unemployed. Stoutt was accused of fathering the child of Kay DeShazer, who was repre sented in the proceed ings by an attorney for the state Adult and Family Ser vices Division. According to court papers, the presiding judge decided Stoutt failed to make a timely appearance at a preliminary hearing and gave him 30 days to contest the paternity allegation. Stoutt said he had sexual relations with DeShazer but denied being the father of her child, the court papers said. After Stoutt faced the possibility of providing child TRY TRACK TOWN PIZZA FOR LUNCH Now Featuring: ALl-YOU-CAN-EAT Salad Bar *1.95 Pizza Bagel & Small Salad $1.89 Sandwich & Small Salad *2.50 Don’t Forget. TRACK TOWN is still great for: Sandwiches - Your choice of 3 Different Meats; Pizza - Your Choice of 15 Different Toppings. TRACK TOWN PIZZA 1809 Franklin Blvd., Eugene Phone 484-2799 - - / support payments for 18 years, the ACLU chapter agreed to take up his appeal free of charge on grounds he was denied due process under the 14th Amendment. The ACLU took its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after it was rejected by a state ap peals court and the Oregon Supreme Court. In a 1981 decision, the Supreme Court ruled there generally is no right to free legal help for people fighting to keep parental rights. But the justices said that in some such cases — where “the parent’s interests were at their strongest, the state’s in terests were at their weakest and the risks of error were at their peak” — entitlement to free legal help might exist. In the appeal acted on Mon day, Portland lawyer Andrew Gardner argued for the ACLU that Stoutt should have receiv ed the help of a court appointed lawyer because he was “denied any meaningful opportunity to be heard in his own defense." PLEASE VOTE TODAY FOR KIDS! H'YES On School District 4J Budget Ballots “A” and “B” The U of O student vote will make a difference only if you votel
