April 17, 2002 Page A2 Burglar Suspect Killed (AP) - Police shot and killed a suspected burglar Sunday after noon. The 29-year-old man, was shot after he appeared on the front porch o f a southeast Portland home waving a gun, said Officer Henry Groepper. Officers were called to the house afierthe owner returned In>ina walk with his two young children and saw blood in the garage, Groepper said. The hom eow ner thought he heard two men’s voices coming from inside the house, Groepper said. When the owner called out, one of the men said: “Don’tcome in or I’ll shoot.” When officers later saw the sus pect on the porch, they repeatedly told him to drop the gun, Groepper said. When the man refused and pointed a gun at police, one officer fired several shots. Concerned about another bur glar, police left the body on the porch for several hours. Officers eventually fired teargas to try tolure the possible second suspect from the house, but no one appeared. Ecstasy Dealer Sent to Prison for Rave Death Jeremy Tomsha found criminally responsible for drug’s deadly result (A P) - A M ultnom ah C ounty ju d g e sentenced a P ortland m an to four years in prison for selling drugs to a w om an w ho died fol low ing a rave party. J e r e m y M ic h a e l T o m s h a pleaded guilty tocrim inally negli gent hom icide last W ednesday and accepted the sentence in the death o f 19-year-old M elissa Joy Flaherty. Flaherty died M arch 3, 2001, the m orning after taking a drug called M D A, a m etham phetam ine derivative that is sim ilar to E c stasy, the w idely p opular club drug. T om sha, 21, w as charged last fall w ith seco n d -d eg ree m a n slaughter for selling Flaherty the drugs that killed her. H is conviction m akes him the first person in M ultnom ah County, and possibly all o f O regon, to be held crim inally responsible for selling the drugs that caused a n other person to die. P ro secu to rs had o b tain ed a photograph o f T om sha taken by Flaherty and her friends right after h e ’d sold them the drugs. The w om en told police th ey ’d snapped the photo in case som ething w ent w rong or the drugs w ere bad. U ndercover officers eventually set up five drug deals and bought 100 E cstasy pills from T om sha. O n M ay 11, they w ere set to buy another2 0 0 pills but instead raided T o m sh a’s apartm ent and arrested him. By pleading g uilty, T om sha avoided a trial and a possible 75- m onth m axim um sentence for sec o n d -d e g re e m an slau g h ter. Six counts o f m anufacturing and d e livering a controlled substance w ere dropped as part o f the deal. Flaherty was among about 2,000 people w ho attended the rave in a rented w arehouse in the so u th east P ortland w aterfront district. She w as w ith tw o friends w ho bought four gold tablets that they thought w ere Ecstasy. She took one at about 11: 30 p.m . and an other h alf at about 1 a.m ., the w om en said. An hour later, she w as found slum ped outside near a portable toilet. Security guards took h er to a m edical tent, w here volunteers m onitored her. T hey called 911 at about 6 a.m. when Flaherty ’ s oxy gen levels dropped and her com plexion changed. She died at a local hospital ju st after 8 a.m. Flaherty, who m oved from H a waii to P ortland in 1998, w as a nu rsin g stu d en t at C lack am as C om m unity C ollege. She left b e hind a 2 -year-old daughter. M ultnom ah C ircuit Judge Julie F rantz called F lah erty ’s death an avoidable tragedy and adm on ished T om sha for his behavior. “ It cau se d a se n se le ss and m eaningless death o f a hum an being as well as yo u r being sent to p riso n ,” she said. L.A. Police Cleared in Actor’s Death Portland Police Chief Mark Kroeker Kroeker Considers L.A. Chief Job (A P) - P ortland Police C h ief M ark K roeker says he m ight ap ply fo r the Los A ngles police ch ief job. K roeker says h e ’s happy in Portland, w ith a position h e ’s com fortable in. But he adds that (quote) “I will look it over. 1 am considering it.” K roeker, w ho is 58, is in his third year as P o rtlan d 's top cop. He unsuccessfully sought the L os A ngeles police ch ief’s jo b tw ice during his 32-year career w ith the departm ent. He retired in 1997, then spent a year in S arajevo w orking to build a p o lice force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He and his w ife, D iane, still ow n a hom e in Los A ngeles that they rent out. T he L os A ngeles jo b opened A pril 9 w hen the Los A ngeles Police C om m ission rejected cur rent LA Police C hief B ernard P arks’ bid for a second term. Woman Attacked Near Clackamas Town Center sto c k y b u ild . T h e P o lice are lo o k in g w o m an sa y s he fo r a su sp e c t a fte r a w as w e a rin g a w o m an re p o rte d b e w h ite je r s e y s h irt in g a tt a c k e d n e a r w ith a n u m b e r on C la c k a m a s T o w n th e b a c k - p o s s i C en ter. b ly 56. T he v ictim to ld D e te c tiv e s b e C la c k a m a s C o u n ty liev e the m an m ay deputies that she was be the sam e su s w alking around 3:30 p ect w ho sex u ally p.m. A pril 2 on S o u th An a rtist's sketch a s s a u lte d a east I4 7 ,hju s tn o r th o f o f the attacker. 5 2 -y e a r-o ld S u n n y sid e R oad. A C lack am as w om an in h e r hom e man passed her and then grabbed last N o v em b er. h er from behind. T h e first v ictim d id n o t g et a T he u n arm ed su sp e c t p u lle d g o o d lo o k at the a tta c k e r, but h er to w ard the b u sh es, bu t she th e s u s p e c t ’ s m a n n e r is m s y e lle d fo r h e lp . T w o p e o p le m atch. h e ard h er cries and the su sp e c t A $ 1 ,0 0 0 rew ard is o ffe re d . ran aw ay . A n y o n e w ith in fo rm a tio n is T h e s u s p e c t is d e s c r ib e d as a sk ed to c all 5 0 3 -8 2 3 -H E L P o r a C a u c a s ia n m a le b e tw e e n 15 the C lack am as C ounty S h e riff’s an d 19 y e a rs o ld , n o m o re th a n O ffice at 503-655-8218. 5 fe e t, 7 in c h e s ta ll w ith a (A P) — T he L os A ngeles d is trict attorney, follow ing an 18- m onth investigation, concluded that a policem an w as ju stified w hen he shot and killed a black actor at a H allow een party after the actor pulled a realistic looking m ovie prop gun and aim ed it at the officer. T he report also said A nthony D wain Lee, a rising star in Seattle’s theater scene before he m oved to Los A ngeles, had alcohol and cocaine in his system and w as clutching fragm ents o f apill found to be the drug know n as E cstasy w hen he w as killed in O ctober 2000. T he conclusion w as essentially the sam e one reached by police C h ief B ernard P arks shortly after the shooting. Parks said O fficerT arriel H op per w as ju stified in believing the w eapon brandished by the 39- year-old actor w as real. Seeking to explain why Lee was killed by shots to his back, the report said that five o f the shots m issed him and he w as turning to his left and "ducking dow n” w hen the other four shots found their target. “W hen M r. Lee turned, drew the replica gun from his w aist band, pointed it at and advanced on the glass doors, O fficer H op per w as faced with a situation that posed, on its face, a grave danger to his safety and the safety o f his partner and the civilians nearby.” W h ile liv in g in S e a ttle from 1988 to 1994, Lee w on praise for sev eral stag e p e rfo rm a n c e s , in c lu d in g ro le s in S h a k e s p e a re ’s “O th ello ,” L orraine H a n sb erry ’s “R aisin in the S u n ” an d “T h e K e n tu c k y C y c le ," a P u litz e r P riz e -w in n in g d ra m a stag ed by ln tim a n T h eater. He had a sm all role in the film “L iar L iar" and appeared in epi so d es o f su c h T V sh o w s as “N Y PD B lue” and "E .R .” His friends described him as a devout B uddhist and a p eace m aker w ho taught theater arts to inner-city youth. Man Wanted for Church Carjacking Tigard Police and the Washington County Inter agency Gang Enforcement Team, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, are asking for your help in locating and apprehending 20-year-old Luis Manuel Fuerte-Coria, street-name “Gremlin.” F u erte-C o ria and tw o other men are charged in connection with an armed car jacking, robbery, as sault and kidnapping that occurred on Easter Sun day in the parking lot o f a church in Tigard. The other suspects, 18- year-old Edgar Filadelfo Hernandez, street-name “Si lent,” and 18-year-old Juan Torres, have been arrested. Fuerte-Coria is approxi mately 5 foot 4 inches tall. Edgar Filadelfo Hernandez 115 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $ 1,000 for information, reported to Crime Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony crime, and you need not give your name. Call Crime Stoppers at (503) 823-HELP (4357). t