Teen kills two, holds class hostage
GRAYSON. kv
(AW — A 17-vwr
old student held a
high school ( lass
hostage Monday afternoon and
opened fire with a revolver,
killing a teat her and i ustodian
before surrendering, authorities
said.
The incident began when the
student, whose name wasn't re
leased. shot English teacher De
anna MclJavid, 48, in the head
before a ( lassroom full of stu
dents at East Carter High
School, said state police
spokesman Gary Kistner.
"He fired the first shot and
missed, and then he walked
closer to her and the next shot
struck her." Kistner said.
Custodian Marvin links. *S 1.
who heard the gunfire, was
shot when he entered the class
room Witnesses told police
Hicks managed to push a stu
dent out of the line of fire be
fore he was hit
"Other teachers who were m
*He was real quiet.
He didn't talk to no
one. He just went
off. It was scary.’
John Wages,
fellow student
the hallway pulled him ba< k
into the hallway and tried to
help hull." said lie* kv Walker,
coordinator of the sc hool's
youth services center "And the
shooter closed the door "
About to .it) students were
in the classroom when the
shooting began, Kistner said
The 17-year-old released them
a few at a time over the next 15
minutes before surrendering to
police, he said
The two victims were killed
w ith a 3H-< ulilier revolver, said
Carter County Coroner Koger
Sullivan
I saw the* janitor get shot."
said John Wages, 17. who was
in an adjoining Kngtish < lass
Hi' was real quint.’' VVagns
said of ihn 17-year-old "He
didn’t talk, to no one He just
went off It was si arv
Walker said si hool off it nils
didn’t know wfi.it prompted the
killings in this town of 1.500
about 45 miles east of busing
ton
"To our knowledge, there
had I men no i onfrontations !»•
tween he and the teat her and
no prior threats " she said
One student, who said she
knew the 17 year-old. said he
had reientlv transferred to bast
Carter from another si hool and
had tH'en in a fistfight in Ot to
her
I didn't know him well.'
said tlie student, who asked
that she not lie named Tie was
a quiet type guy, hilt I neyer
thought (he) would do some
tiling like that
Women senators wary of Packwood
WASHINGTON (AP) — They swept into offic ••
complaining that male politicians "|iisi didn't get
it " Hut. for now, all but one of the six women in
the Senate are approaching the sexual harassment
ease of Hob Pat kwood with < ustomary senatorial
caution.
"The process ought to have a chant e to go tor
ward." Sen. Garni Moseley Hraim. D-Ill . said of
the Kthics Gommittee's preliminary inquiry into
the charges against the veteran Oregon Republi
can.
"There are people who sav he should resign
right now." said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Galif
I am not one of them It he's guilty, his i redibili
ty ns a United States senator is destroyed Then 1
think he should resign "
In the chummy atmosphere of the Senate, it lias
always lieen customary to tread gingerly on the
ethics problems of a colleague When lawmakers
voted in ll)<)<) to denounce Sen Dave Durenber
ger for financial misconduct, for example, they
lined up afterward to shake his hand and offer
solace.
If any case could force a break with that tradi
tion, Pnckwood's might
Packwood, without discussing specifics, has
generally admitted allegations by more than a
dozen women including several of his lornier
Senate employees that he made unwanted sex
nol advances Hie women said I’m kwood kissed
and tom hed them, and in some i axes tried to rip
off their i lothing
His case revives an issue hi a Senate still
squirming from the effects of its hearings into
Anita Hill's allegations th.it Supreme Court his
In e designate Clarem e I’homas sexually harassed
tier on the job
Thomas yvas lonfirmed. women s groups bri
dled angrily at Hill s treatment by the all male
Senate (uditiary Committee mil politic inns sm h
as Moseley Hraun and f emsteili had a ready
made issue for their i audidai ies
Now. only California Democrat Ifariwra boxer
among the six women senators agrees with out
side critics who say I'ai.kwood should leave the
Senate immediately
"I think he ought to resign." she said recently
in an interview, noting the Rules Committee ysill
consider challenges to Ins qualifii ations. and the
Kthics Committee will determine whether he's to
be disciplined.
"What is to come will l>e very painful and it
would l*i I lest for him, the women (l’a< kwood'x
ai i users) and the institution." boxer said
Nonviolent resistance
is based on the conviction
that the universe e on the side of justice
Consequently the believer in non\iolen>. c
has deep tenth in the future Hus faith
is another reason why the nonviolent reus
can accept suffering without retaliation
lor he knows that m his struggle for justice
he has cosmic companionship
Martin 1 uther King
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