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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, June 18, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes tuesday june 18, 1991shots fired at Carter construction site Miami apr gunshots ripped through i a construction site where former president Carter and hundreds of volunteers were building Low income housing monday leaving one Man slightly wounded. Carter was a Block away from the shooting site and was unhurt. His wife Rosalynn also was not Hurt. Investigators had conflicting information about whether the gunfire was directed at Carters habitat for humanity project metro Dade police spokeswoman Lizotte Williams said. Carter tried to put the Best Light on the incident which marred the opening Day of the we Klong drive to build 14 Homes and a Day care Center in predominantly Black Liberty City. A there was no harm done and i think that in the future the Community will be much More at ease knowing they can have Good housing and people can work together a he said. Witnesses said they heard three or four shots ring out in rapid succession from a White car that sped past the Central tent where volunteers were about to gather for lunch. Pat Morris 34, a marketing consultant who was placing sandwiches on a table for the work Crews took a Bullet through his baseball Cap but suffered Only a flesh wound to his head. A maybe it was the Luck of the. Irish a said Morris of Miami Beach. A i expect to be Back Here tomorrow morning. The news Isnit what happened to  the Rev. Barbara Scott of the Coral Gables methodist Church was standing beside Morri when the Bullet hit and said no one realized he was shot until a clump of his hair fell out. Another Bullet j smashed the window of a car parked at the site said police sgt. Les Bluman 1 some witnesses said the shots came from one car and appeared aimed directly at the Volunteer tent. Police initially denied that account saying they believed two passing cars  at each other and that the tent was hit by stray bullets. But Williams said that after further investigation police were no longer certain of that version. A Alec Hunt a cosmetologist with the Dade county schools was parking her car next to the vehicle hit by gunfire but said she had no intention of abandoning the project. Some volunteers did not agree however. A we were scared to death a said. , 67, of North Miami Beach. She said she threw herself to the ground when the bullets rang out. A i done to feel Sale working and i m not coming Here  4 Bank guards die in $100,000 heist Dun Zimmerman a member of the swat team watches an Entrance to a Denver Hank where a gunman killed four guards in a High Security vault during a robbery. Denver apr a Holdup Man who slipped through a Labyrinthine Security system of electronic codes and Access cards shot to death four Bank guards locked up several employees and escaped with at least $100,000, authorities say. The bodies were discovered in the heavily secured lower Levels of the United Bank of Denver. Three guards including a trainee were found shot to death in a control room where they Monitor the Barac with video cameras police said. A Phis is a particularly brutal robbery. We Haven to had people killed in Bank robberies other than the robber in the last five years maybe  said Denver Fri spokesman Dick Schussler. A occasionally a guard will get roughed up or grazed by a Bullet but never killed. I can to remember a Case like  the robbers ability to thwart the Security system sunday led to speculation that he knew his Way around the Bank or had help from an employee. A i think that would be Safe to assume a said police spokesman David Neil. A the Bank is of such a configuration that you have to know what you Quot Are doing. There May have been More than one Quot robber because there is such an elaborate operation downstairs. He had to have an Access card or somebody with an Access  video cameras Monitor the building and coded. Electronic Access cards Are needed to get through doors and to operate elevators on weekends and evenings. Employee codes also Are required to enter parts of the building. Police described the level where the control room is situated As a labyrinth of corridor Sand rooms divided by bulletproof Glass reinforced doors and other High tech barriers. The control room is next to the Concrete reinforced vault which was found locked and untouched police said. How a Ever adjacent Money rooms with receipts from businesses that operate on w weekends were full of Cash police said. The fourth guard was found shot to death in a storage area on the level below that of the control room police said. Identities of the victims were not Ini mediately released. A Skeleton Crew of Bank employees was counting weekend receipts in the Cash rooms when the robber walked in about 10 a.m., police said. A the Man grabbed 20s and 50s. There was a lot of Money. There was at least $100,000 sitting there a said staff member Alan Schneider. A the robber then ordered five to six employees into the Bank so Man trap a a highly secured room he said Access is from one direction Only and one door must be shut before a second can be opened with a code Schneider said. One employee hid from the robber and others used elevators to go upstairs and Alert police Schneider said at least nine other employees w Ere in the building at the time said Bank spokeswoman Peg Mckechnie. None was injured. A search began for the guards after they failed to respond by radio police said by around 11 a.m., police had worked their Way to the control room and forced their Way in finding  victims police said. Believing the robber May still have been in the building police swept the 52-Story building from the top Down. It Wasny to until about 6 30 . That the body of the fourth guard was found on a lower level police said. Hinckley s victims to make him pay Washington a three men wounded by . Hinckley or. In his ambush on president Reagan 10 years ago Are going to court this month to try to make the assailant pay for his actions. Hinckley contends his insanity at the time of the assassination attempt should bar any claims for civil damages. But . District judge John Garrett Penn has  dismiss the claims  for a Mer White House press Secretary James Brady and two Law officers. Penn has set a june 24 trial Date although attorneys Are discussing a possible settlement. The trial also could be delayed because of difficulty in scheduling testimony by expert witnesses. Hinckley has been confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington since 16s2, when he was found innocent of criminal charges by reason of insanity. Legal precedent says people judged insane Are still liable for  intended to repay a victim for losses but liability for punitive damages a those intended to punish Hinckley a is. Open to question. The assassination attempt a took the kind of villainous mind that you do want to punish Quot added Robert Cadeaux the lawyer for former metropolitan police officer Thomas k. Delahanty. Quot the Clear evidence. Is that he i Hinckley knew exactly what he was doing a said Brady s attorney Frederic w. Schwartz or. Brady was shot in the head during the March 30, Lisl assassination attempt and left permanently disabled. Delahanty retired from the police Force on disability after the shooting. Timothy j. Mccarthy a secret service agent wounded in tie assault has returned to  told their damage claims add up to hundreds of millions of dollars. Its not Clear How Hinckley would pay any damages that might be awarded. His Only apparent assets Are intangible ones such As the rights to his writings his life Story and even the videotaped deposition he gave for this Case. I Hose rights could be turned Over to the plaintiffs who could sell them for the protits said. Paul Kamenar the attorney for Mccarthy Hinckley a attorney . Jones i Erre 11, declined to comment while there is a Chance of a settlement. A whatever it is the plaintiffs have suffered a Schwartz said a it will be far More than or. Hinckley will Ever  a a map James s. Brady  
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