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Guard Says Teen Shot to Anger Moose
Gunfire Kills Councilman
ch am b er’s crow ded
(A P) - N ew york
balcony and died at a
M ayor
M ic h a e l
hospital.
B loom berg w alked
A security officer
through a metal de
fired up at his killer,
tector as he returned
O thniel A sk ew -w h o
toCity Hall on Thurs-
had avoided the metal
day.adayatteracoun-
detectors because he
cilm anallow edarival
w as with D avis - and
politician to bypass
the 31 -year-old died a
security, leading to a
short tim e later at the
sh o o tin g th a t left New York Councilman
sam e hospital, police
them both dead.
James Davis
said.
“W e have a city
Askew had been a rival o f D avis’
to ru n ...th e sam e city that C ou n cil
man (Jam es) D avis w as trying to and had filed papers to oppose him
help,” B loom berg said. “A nd the in a three-way council race in this
rest o f us have a responsibility to tall'sDemocraticprimaiy.Bloombeig
his fam ily and to 8 m illion people to said. But he was not an official can
continue.”
didate because he hadn ’ t filed enough
T h e a tta c k last W e d n esd ay petition signatures.
D av is sp o k esw o m an A m y re
turned N ew Y ork C ity ’s seat o f
governm ent into a crim e scene, with Loom is said D avis and A skew had
scream ing political aides and terri recently called a truce, and had met
fied visitors diving for cover.
three tim es in recent weeks. W hen
Davis, 4 1, a form er police officer A skew show ed up last W ednes
and ordained minister w ho cam day at D av is’ office in Brooklyn
paigned against urban violence, was and asked if they could go to City
shot several tim es in the council Hall together, D avis agreed.
Defense
attorneys want
to block
testimony
(A P) — S niper defendant Lee
Boyd M alvo told a prison guard
that he shot a teenage victim to
anger M ontgom ery C ounty, Md.,
Police C h ief C harles M oose and
that he had intended to shoot an
entire busload o f children, the
guard testified Thursday.
The claim s w ere am ong several
M alvo allegedly m ade to guards
shortly after he and fellow defen
dant John Allen M uham m ad were
arrested in O ctober.
M alvo’s attorneys, w ho want
to keep the testim ony out o f his
trial, said som e o f the claim s —
such as shooting a senator on a
gol f course — cast doubt on al I the
alleged statem ents.
Joseph Stracke, a guard at a Bal
tim ore prison, said at a prelim inary
hearing that M alvo spoke proudly
o f various shootings.
Stracke said he asked M alvo w hy
he w ounded a m iddle-school stu
dent. "T o m ake C h ief M oose upset,
to m ak e h im em o tio n al so he
w o u ld n ’t think straig h t, and it
w orked,” the guard quoted M alvo
as saying.
M oose, w ho has since left the
departm ent, led the sniper investi-
D avis said he d id n 't necessarily
believe everything M alvo said.
"1 w as under the im pression he
w as exaggerating to m e,” Davis
said.
M alvo’s law yers said the array
o f claim s calls into question the
veracity o f any o f the alleged con
fessions.
M alvo, 18, and M uham m ad, 42,
have been linked to 20 shootings,
Moose
including 13 deaths, in V irginia,
gation. He is a form er Portland Po Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Loui
lice C h ief and long tim e Portland siana and W ashington, D.C. Both
could face the death penalty if con
officer.
M alvo said he had in itially victed.
P r o s e c u to r s h a v e s a id th e
planned to shoot a busload o f chil
dren, but aborted that plan, Stracke shootings carried out in m etropoli
testified. T he reason w as unclear. tan W ashington during a three-
A second guard, W ayne Davis, w eek spree in O ctober w ere part o f
said M alvo claimed that he shot a a schem e to extort $ 10 m illion from
senator on a g o lf course, that he had the governm ent.
shot a young black w om an w ho an
D avis said M alvo talked about a
swered a door, and that he had tracked racial m otivation forthe killings but
down and shot a schoolmate who a lso said the sh o o tin g s “w ere
had been picking on him.
m ostly about m oney.”
Bank Robberies Tied to Four Suspects
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(A P) — Bank robberies have
increased sharply this year and the
FBI blam es four men for m ore than
a q uarter o f the crim es.
The robberies likely w ere not
connected, said FBI spokesw om an
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"They ’re not that organized," said
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an increase in robberies
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are usually drug addicts. T hey’re
not planning that far in advance.”
Linger said four suspects are
w anted in connection w ith 26 rob
beries in the greater Portland area.
They are thought to have robbed
betw een three and 10 banks each.
O nly one has ever show n a weapon,
the FBI said.
A fter a July 14 robbery in north
west Portland, theFB I reported that
there have been 93 bank robberies
in O regon this year. In the sam e
period last year, there w ere 60.
For all o f 2002, there w ere 128
bank robberies, statew ide, dow n
from 247 in 1996, the highest num
ber in the past seven years.
The FBI said the current increase
m ight be a result o f increased drug
use or the possibility that there are
m ore petty crim inals on the streets
as a result o f state and local law
enforcem ent budget cuts.
Police Search Non-Whites More
Town examines treatment
minorities at traffic stops
(A P) -- N onw hites stopped by police in
C orval I is are searched m ore often and detained
longer than the general population, an analysis
released by the city says.
Data was collected during 11,550 traffic stops
during 2001 and 2002. A w ider state study o f
600,000 stops by the state C rim inal Justice
D ivision show ed a sim ilar trend.
The C orvallis study exam ines how police
treat people after a traffic stop, not w hether
there w as intentional bias in stopping them.
M em bersoftheC om m unity Policing Forum,
an advisory com m ittee to the police depart
m ent, requested the analysis to see if prelim i
nary figures could be explained by random
chance.
The study found that o f 335 stops that lasted
longer than 30 m inutes, H ispanics m ade up 18
percent o f those involved but m ake up only 4.9
percent o f the city ’s population. B lacks w ere 2.7
percent o f the people involved in longer stops
but represent only 1.1 percent o f the population.
A typical stop takes 15 to 20 m inutes, police
said.
C orvallis Police C h ie f G ary B oldizsar sug
gested longer stops o f H ispanic drivers could
be because o f language problem s.
C ity C ouncil President Rob G andara, also
president o f the C om m unity Policing Forum ,
said he thinks language m ay be only part o f the
problem.
“ H ispanics are not any m ore likely to be
arrested, but th ey ’re m ore likely to be searched,”
G andara said.
Teens Arrested in Statue Vandalism
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Tw o teenage boys arrested for
vandalizing the Joan o f Arc statute
at Northeast Glisan and 39,h Avenue
told police they dum ped paint on the
statue because “ it w as too shiny".
The 1925 statute w as recently
repainted and coated with g o lf leaf.
R epairing the dam age is estim ated
at m ore than $5,000.
T here had been speculation the
destruction w as a hate crim e. It
occurred on B astille D ay, F rance’s
In d ep en d en ce D ay. T he statue
com m em orates Portland soldiers
w ho fought alongside the French
in W orld W ar I.
The 14 and 13 y ear olds w ere
charged after police traced the pur
chase o f paint at a local Fred M eyer
store.
Women Confess ‘Street Family’ M urder
(A P )— T w o w om en have pleaded guilty in
the death o fa m entally disabled A frican A m eri
can w om an w ho police say w as killed hy her
“street fam ily” for violating its code ofconduct.
Crystal A. G race, 20, pleaded guilty last week
to second-degree kidnapping, third-degree
robbery and third-degree assault in the death o f
22-year-old Jessica W illiams ofG ladstone, w ho
w as beaten, stabbed and set on fire. Her body
w as found M ay 23 near the F.astbank Espla
nade in Portland.
In exchange for her plea, G race agreed to
testify against others w ho have been indicted
in W illiam s’ slaying. G race is scheduled to be
sentenced T hursday to five years in prison on
the kidnapping charge.
Heidi L. Keller, 21, pleaded guilty July 22 to the
sam e charges as G race and was sentenced to five
years in prison under an identical agreement.
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T hirteen people have been indicted in W ill
iam s'slay in g .
Danielle M aneC ox, 18; Jam es Aaron Stewart,
18; and Carl Richard Alsup, 18, face aggravated
m urder charges. C ox and S tew art have been
arrested, but police are still looking for A lsup.
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