European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 22,1988 the stars and stripes pages woman with 3 guns terrorizes school police find her dead after i tailed 6 wounded Lori Dann Winnetka Iii. A a woman who opened fire in an elementary school Friday killing one child and critically wounding five others was found dead when a swat team stormed a nearby House where she had wounded a sixth person. I be just received information that the suspect has been found and she is dead police chief Herbert Timm said nearly nine hours after the shooting began at Hubbard Woods elementary school. The situation is he said she had shot herself once in the head with a ,32-Calibcr pistol. The woman identified As Lori Dann 30, was carrying three handguns when she opened tire in Side the one Story red Brick school around 10 45 a.m., killing one child and wounding live others police said. There was blood All Over the classroom and desks knocked Over As the children panicked during the is minutes the shooting lasted said go Cnoc patrolman John cd Gliwski. Kids were lying around in very serious conditions in the school. Timm said. Kids were hiding under the desk As Well As they she then ran to a nearby House and wounded one of its occupants in a struggle. Hostage negotiators arrive moments later and Dann spoke by Telephone to her parents brought to the House in Hopes of talking Herout. Timm said he decided to Send the swat team into the House after repeated efforts by police and Dann parents failed to Contact her. The team was accompanied by Fri agents with sound detectors probing for movement in the House. Timm said police had yet to establish a motive for the rampage. Dann allegedly set a fire earlier Friday eight blocks away at the Home of a couple where she worked As a housekeeper in this affluent North Shore Community. She reportedly was upset haying been told she was losing her Job because the family was moving police said. Timm reconstructing a Day of violence at an eve Ning news conference said Dann set two tires and carried a gasoline can to the door of a Day care Center before embarking on the shooting spree. Before going to the school Friday police said Dann went to the Home of Padraig and Marion Rushe on Forest Glen to take two of their children 4 and 6 cars old to the zoo. Instead of going to the zoo however Timm said Dann took the children to Ravinia school in neighbor ing Highland Park where she set off one of several incendiary devices she carried in her car Friday. Authorities found one of the devices burning there but extinguished it before it could cause any damage. Timm said Dann drove next to a Day care Center where she went to the front door carrying a can of gasoline. But she was met at the front door by a staff number who asked what she was doing and she look off said Timm. He said Dann returned to the Rushe Home talked with mrs. Rushe and the children in a family room in the basement then went upstairs and set off another incendiary device. While the tire raged upstairs mrs. Rushe manage to push her two children through a Small window in the basement then crawl out herself. Dann mean while made her Way about eight blocks to the school police said. Timm said several other incendiary devices were found in Dann s car in the neighbourhood near the House where the standoff took place. Timm said that when Dann walked into the school her first Stop was a boys bathroom where she shot a youngster. She left him and ran into one classroom telling the teacher there that a boy had been wounded said Timm. Then she entered a second classroom announced she had a gun and opened police recovered a .357-caliber magnum revolver from the school for which Timm said Dann had been issued a permit. How did a woman with that kind of background get licensed to carry a gun Timm said. Joe Sumner director of Winnetka police operations said the woman then ran through the Woods from the school and entered the Home where four members of a family and their maid were present. Apparently she just walked in and confronted the homeowners Sumner said. The Mother came run Ning out and said there s a woman in my Home with a gun then we heard a shot. The son came out holding a gun. And fell Over in the driveway Sumner said. The son 20-year-old Philip Andrew apparently struggled with Dann grabbed one of her weapons an was shot in the Chest Sumner said. The father maid and Grandfather fled by a Side door leaving her alone Nick Conrin inside. Eight year old Nick Corwin died of his wounds at Highland Park Hospital said spokesman Mark Newt won. Another 8-Ycar-old boy and Andrew were in critical condition at the Hospital said spokeswoman sue Masaracchia. The four children at Evanston Hospital were reported in critical but stable condition with gunshot wounds following surgery said spokeswoman Mary Ash. Keith Wilson told the Wisconsin state journal from his Home in los Angeles that he had roomed across the Hall from Dann when they attended the University of Wisconsin. He described her As just an absolutely bizarre lady and said sometimes she d wander the nails and try to open Lonetree s prison sentence Cut to 25 years Quantico a. A the 30-year prison sentence imposed on former Marine sgt. Clayton j. Lonc Trcic in a mos cow embassy Case was Cut by five years Friday by the commander of the Quantico Marine base. It. Gen. Frank e. Peterson also lifted the $5,000 Tine imposed on Lone acc after his aug. 24 espionage conviction in a court radial at the Northern Virginia installation. Petersen acted after a review of Lone tree s Case because of his total cooperation and conduct during his voluntary Post trial do briefings by counter Intelli gence gunnery sgt. Dean Chamberlain Saidlo Netric would be eligible for parole after serving one third of his sentence which Means he would have to spend 8 / years instead of 10 years behind bars be fore being considered for release Lone acc also was sentenced by the eight officer court marital to a Dishon Oracle discharge reduction to private and forfeiture of All pay and allowances. Those penalties were unaffected. Chamberlain said Lonc Trcic has been held at Quantico since his trial Lonc Trcic was convicted on 13 counts including allegations that he turned Over Cia identities and floor plans of the in Moscow and Vienna to the soviets. Sands of time in the stars and stripes prosecutors alleged that Lonetree be came a spy after falling in love with a soviet translator Violetta Sanni. His defense attorneys contended Lonc Trcic gave nothing of value to the soviets but was trying to string the Kab along by providing them wit non vital secrets in an Effort to be a double agent. A boosts mortgage rate to 1 01/2% 40 years ago today. Washington a the Veter ans administration is raising its Maxi mum interest rate for federally backed a Home mortgages by one half percent age Point to 10.5 percent. A spokeswoman Pam Siciliano said the Agency is making the change effective monday to reflect recent increases in interest rates in financial markets. A the past 16 months the a rate has fluctuated Between 8.5 percent and 10.5 percent. It has changed three times this year with the last change coming on april 4 when the rate was increased from 9.5 percent to 10 percent. On feb. 1, the rate had been lowered a full percentage Point to 9.5 percent from 10.5 percent. The Federal Home loan mortgage corp. Said that the National average for 30-year, conventional mortgages those without government guarantees Rose to 10.s2 percent last week from 10.40 percent the previous week. The a said that effective monday a variety of other mortgage rates will also Rise by one half percentage Point. Graduated payment mortgages will increase to 10.75 percent Home improvement Loans will Rise to 12 percent and Loans for to bile Homes will increase to 13 percent. The a rates apply to new Loans not existing ones. A mortgage peaked at 17.5 percent in september 1981 before beginning a decline and reaching a Low for this decade of 8.s percent in january 1987. May 22, 1948 father Edward Flanagan founder of boys town the famous Home for boys in Nebraska was paid final tribute by the boys he had taken off the streets. 30 years ago today. May 22, 1938 Harold e. A Lassen s bid to become governor of Pennsylvania failed when Arthur t. Mcgonigle who had been Bacica by the state Republican organization Defeated him in the state primary. 20 years ago today. May 22, 1968 French president Charles de Gaulle s opponents launched a determined attack on his 10-year Rule which had been crippled by a nationwide general strike. 10 years ago today. May 22,1978 More than 5,000 demonstrators chanting and carrying banners marched past the White House to demand an end to . Diplomatic and economic ties with South Africa
