European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 10. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Texas killer with no remorse executed , Texas up _ Rudy Ramos Esqui act who said he Hod no remorse for killing an undercover narcotics agent in a shoot uni Over a heroin Deal was executed by injection Early monday imploring his weep ing friends o be Esquivwl was strapped onto a Gurney in the prison s death chamber shortly after Midnight and injected with a mixture of three drugs sodium Ohio Pontal Paulon and potassium Chloride through an intravenous lube by u hidden exc Clinner. The drugs began 10 take effect immediately. Esquivwl breathed deeply is times and made a groaning noise As the two men and two women he had selected to witness his execution whispered prayers the third person executed in Texas in As Many months Esquivel 50, was pronounced dead at 12 21 a.m., Only n few minutes past he eighth anniversary of the june 8, 1978, murder of Houston narcotics officer Timothy Hearn,2s. " Don l think i be Ever seen an individual As Calm und cheerful and peaceful when he was about to meet his maker said Texas attorney general Jim motion who talked sunday night with the condemned Man who had maintained i know i was right in the police officer s death. Esquivel became the 59th person to be executed in the United slates since the supreme court reinstated the dial penalty in i97d and the 14th in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. I just want to say goodbye to my friends. Be Cool Esquivwl told the witnesses in the ill chamber thank you for being my friends. Give my luvs to a witness said we love Esquivwl replied. I love you All. Stay close. Every thing s going to be All witness Barbara Lun Gorki read several Hibic verses and Esquivwl looked at the witnesses and said thank you his friends again said we love you Rudy and Lonc Oria leaned against the shoulder of her husband Pilo and began sobbing. At the Lime of the Carn killing Esquivwl was on parole from a 99-year sentence he was Given in 1953 at age p for his participation in a gang rape of a Turnan on her Way la Church. He served i years of that sentence. He also served a prison term in California for assaulting a police officer and forgery. Hearn was shot once in the Abdomen and three times in the face. His partner and Esquivel were wounded in the shoot out during a drug raid in a Southeast Houston Park ing let. Esquivel claimed he was framed in Fleam s death and convicted unfairly by an All White jury. He said officers had tried to Plant heroin in his pocket because he refused to become an informant for them. I was set up and i rave no remorse in me he had said. I accept what is happening. My great strength is thai i know 1 was right if it happens it happens he had said of his execution. Esquivel whose last minute Appeal for a stay was rejected on a 7-2 vote by the supreme court had won stays of three previous execution Dales. Prison officials said Esquiv i appeared to accept the news that the High Yourl had rejected his request for a stay. Two hours later though lie ate Only a few Biles of the Fried Chicken and one bite of the Jalapeno Pepper he had re queued for his final meal. Me also asked for Corn on the cob salad and Pecan pie but did not eat any of it. Esquivwl was moved from his death Row cell about 4 . Sunday to a cell adjacent to the death chamber in the Texas department of corrections main prison unit. He spent the first hour Afler his arrival smoking cigarettes and made Brief phone Calls 10 two uncles prison spokesman Charles Brown said. Ezquivel had won a slay of execution Friday from a Federal judge in Houston who gave defense lawyers 20 Days to present More evidence on their claim that hispanics improperly were excluded from Esquivwl s trial jury. But the state appealed and the 5lh . Circuit court of appeals in new Orleans reinstated the death Dale sat urday and the supreme court sunday rejected his final request for a stay. Tornado sweeps through Denver no serious injuries Denver a a Tornado swept through Southeast part of inc City Sun Day damaging roofs and blowing out win Dows at a shopping Center office lower and apartment building but authorities said there were no serious i Jurics. Shingles everything was flying into the Clouds said eyewitness Karen Tia Gan a. Waitress at a bar in the Market place shop Ping Center she said one Man trying to Cross a Street when the twister hit was Cut by flying shingles. At fir we kind of i inched at it Hagan said describing the 1. I winds that pulled off shingles from the shopping Center roof. But then we saw How High it was flying and everybody said. Of my god we re going to be dead because we d never seen anything like it. It happened just like that she said. The funnel Cloud touched Down Over at the Fairway apartments and bounced and hit the Market place shopping Center and Market Tower office building said Aurora fire dispatcher Steve Selzer. Jim Kaplan a forecaster at the National weather service in Denver said the indications were that a Tornado touched Down along the Denver Aurora Emmr of m m mar Job Mem tornadoes by state a. I year. 195cm9s5 Hawaii Chicago Noune map so acc National severe storms forecast Center the entire northeastern Section of tin slate had been under a Tornado watch und the weather service had issued a Tornado warning for the metro area shortly after 5 . A Tornado warning was also issued for Central Adams county where three or four tornadoes and funnel Clouds were sighted in Rural areas North of Watkins and Bennett said dec Clark dispatcher for the Bennett Waikins fire department. Clark said there were no reports Ofin Jurics. Denver police ski. Ltd Connors said the shopping Center in slur caused some property damage. Don t think it was real he said apparently some roof damage la buildings there. We be also had reports of two tornadoes touching ground East of Pleton International Airport in a non developed dispatchers Ai Aurora said they had received hundreds of Calk about funnel Clouds. Fire dispatcher Ray Benson said heavy Rains accompanied the twisters. We had a pc ii Strong wind gust where it picked up a part of a Fence and slammed it into a vehicle. Otherwise we be had o lot of sightings reported but apparently they were possibly starting Down but did t make it All the Way Benson said. He gave them what they demanded Moo a Tillamook Ore. A a Dairy Farmer Haj answered a Bank s demand for payment on his Loans by dropping off 103 cows at inc financial institution. Neil Boge got a letter from . National Dank at Oregon on May 31 demanding that he make Good on pro Maary notes or deliver his collateral so he decided to deliver the collateral his cows. The animals were in nine trucks driven by sympathizers they re scared Boge said. They figure they re when the Tillamook Branch of the Bank opened on thursday parts of main Avenue and another Street and the Bank parking lot resembled a stockyard after the trucks arrived. The incident scan Drew a crowd and police. When police chief Roy White arrived and told Boge to move cows the Farmer replied they re not my cows they re gesturing toward the Bank. Boge 49, a lifelong resident of the area has operated his 146-acre farm five Miles South of the City in North West Oregon Foi is years. He said he borrowed Money from the Bank three years ago for Dairy cows and equipment. He made monthly payments of j4.865 at 13h percent interest and estimated thai he paid the Bank More than $58.000 last year. In december Boge said he look out two smaller Short term Loans to buy Hay and repair farm equipment. He said he was late on two loan cols and was deemed by inc Bank to be in default. After tie received his letter demanding the collateral or that other arrangements be made Boge chose to deliver his collateral. Bank manager Steve Springer refused to comment. Bank officials arranged for another Farmer to Lake care of the cows. Court order allows retarded couple to attend prom gu1lderland. . A a mentally retarded couple attended a High school Ball this weekend after a judge told the school it could not bar one partner s court ordered chaperone. State supreme court Justice Lawrence e. Kahn issued the order in the spirit of a Happy prom weekend Guilderland High school principal Debbie Pepin said school policy barred anyone requiring adult supervision from saturday s dance. Vincent Tricomi of the Albany suburb of Watervliet had been invited to the prom by a Guilder acid student whose name was withheld by her family. Tricomi. 20. Had been charged with sexual abuse last year. In August he was found in competent to stand trial and an Albany county judge required Thiu he remain under 24-hour supervision for of least a year Trica Tii s parents had agreed to supervise their son at the prom but Kahn ordered the director of the slate residence where the you no Man lives to accompany the couple instead. Pat Tricomi the Man s Mother said that when her ton arrived at the prom he was scared to death and at first would t get out of the car. But he soon relaxed and the evening proceeded without incident she said. The judge s order was part of an agreement reached Friday with lawyers for the school District and the couple s parents. They Are handicapped children who should have the Opportunity to enjoy the time of their lives said Paul Wein lawyer for the girl s parents he had gone to court to Block the prom if the couple was not allowed to go. School officials had opposed Tricomi s at Tendance because of the supervision require ment the school lawyer said
