European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes tuesday december 31, 1991death gym jammed beyond limit tickets were sold at door despite being overcrowded new York a the subterranean gymnasium where eight people died in the crush of fans trying to get inside for a Charity basketball game was jammed with As Many As 2,000 people Over a or nearly double a its Legal capacity police said sunday. A it was oversold a said mayor David Dinkins. In addition to the eight deaths dozens were injured saturday night at the Charity event staged at City College by rap music stars. After viewing videotape shot from the bleachers during the Melee police said the gym in Harlem contained perhaps 2,000 people Over its Legal capacity of 2,730. Despite the overcrowding tickets were still being sold at the door said Mario Salvaggi a City police patrol chief. Charles Hirsch chief medical examiner said the victims All were asphyxiated a a squeezed front to backs a in the stairwell leading to the gym. The dead included three women and five men ranging in age from 16 to 28. After a Glass door was broken Many people rushed inside and Down the 12-loot-wide stairwell. That created the fatal crush at the Bottom where doors at first were closed then opened too late. A the door opens and there were bodies on the floor and people were just running Over them Quot said by Collins one of the first emergency workers on the scene. Some people were piled six deep she said. The City a emergency medical service said one of the victims was four months pregnant. Some 21 people were injured including five emergency workers some of them mauled As the crowd fought Over their services. Spectators at the heavy d. And puff daddy celebrity Charity basketball game a Benefit to raise Money for aids education included former world heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson and rap musician . Cool j. A recorded Telephone message told Cullers that All of the $12 Advance tickets had been sold but that tickets could be bought at the door for $20. The game was scheduled to Start at 6 ., and the doors opened at 5  The line moved slowly As Security guards checked people for weapons witnesses said. By 7 ., the game still had not started and several Hundred people on the Street began pushing to get inside. A locked Glass door was smashed and people began to Rush in witnesses said. City police were called in to help with the crowd outside the building. Officers had Only limited Success in getting people to form an orderly line but they were no longer nearby when the crush began Salvaggi said. Randy Jones 34said when people began to charge in a woman collecting Money at the door ran into the gym with the nights receipts and closed the Metal doors behind her leaving the crowd to pile up in the stairwell. A people kept coming in coming in. That a when people were packed in like sardines a Jones said. Eventually organizers began letting people from the stairwell into the gym but Only a few at a time. A they would let four in at a time and two would faint Quot Jones said. Later an announcement was made that the game would not be played because three people had died. Witnesses said people in the gym then began trying to get out worsening the crush at the door. Emergency workers were mobbed. A we were being pulled by other people to help other people on the other Side a said Collins. A people were screaming panicking and pulling on you and meanwhile As we re treating people there were other Little skirmishes that broke  on sunday the Corner of the gym where the worst crush occurred was littered with piles of emergency medical technicians equipment. Out on the Street sunday Leah Williams stopped to talk. A a in a sick of our Young people dying a she said. A what we Tell them is the streets Are very dangerous. But they re not Safe inside  litter fills the stairway to Holman gymnasium where eight died saturday. Appan Sless Kennedy hit of spoof Parade Miami apr a dozen a marching Ken Nedys dropped their trousers chugged Champagne and stole the show at sundays King Mango strut a Wacky wicked Cousin to the Orange bowl Parade. It the a Ken Nedys wore Blue blazers and Khaki pants Over Boxer shorts. They followed a woman in a Black dress and pearls whose face was covered with a Blue Blob. The William Kennedy Smith rape trial was t the Only Florida crime Case to inspire the marchers. Ethan and Lori Bradford tourists from Anchorage Alaska dressed As survivors of a Miami mugging. �?o1 guess the motto Down Here is Mug me Don t hug me huh a said Bradford. Although he Hasni to actually been mugged a yet a he carried a sign that said a visit Miami  the March through Miami s trendy Coconut Grove neighbourhood attracted about 2,500 spectators police said. Joe Dimaggio a Coffee Salesman from new York led the Parade. He Wasny to however the or. Coffee Salesman also known As the Yankee Clipper of new York Yankees baseball Fame. That Joe Dimaggio is scheduled to Lead today a nationally televised King Orange Jamboree. Shaken jurors Given therapy after gruesome murder trial san Jose Calif. Apr a jury heard months of gruesome testimony in the murder trial of a motorcycle gang killer before convicting him and recommending his execution. When it was Over they asked for a and received a group therapy. Its a trend whose time has come Legal observers say. A the juror did no task to be there and suddenly he shaving to hear upsetting evidence a said Santa Clara county judge Hugh Mullin. He agreed to counselling for the jury that on sept. 6 convicted James Francis of Malley of killing Sharley Ann German and two acquaintances in 1986. The of Malley Case is among a known handful around the country in which jurors received Post trial counselling said Tom Munsterman director of the Center for jury studies in Arlington a. While the jurors contemplated their request for counselling the judge was considering it too since Reading about the 1989 trial of a Drunken Driver in Kentucky whose pickup truck crashed into a school bus killing 24 children and three adults. That trial was held in a Small town and most of the jurors knew the defendant frequent recesses were called because jurors often broke Down in tears. After the panel found the Driver guilty of manslaughter and he was sentenced to prison they asked for counselling Munsterman said. A the example of the of Malley Case in turn prompted another California judge to offer counselling to a Santa Clara Superior court jury that in october convicted Richard Wade Farley of lulling seven people in a rampage at a Sunnyvale defense contractor in 1988. The panel recommended execution by Gas. Farley has not Een sentenced. The Counselor in both cases this fall was Josie Romero a psychiatric social worker. In a report published saturday the san Jose Mercury news said the $1,000 sessions were paid for by the county. Romero described the sessions As emotional the newspaper said. Of Malley Case jurors expressed fear of gang members retaliating. In the Farley Case jurors were anxious about Public places with a the fear that you never know if someone a going to Start  sitting on a jury in a criminal trial can leave lingering impressions Romero said. One juror who spoke to the Mercury news on condition of anonymity said the trial gave her nightmares. She also feared retaliation she said. A i d dream about some of the pictures we had to see pictures of the woman when she was found pictures of the other victim who had been buried for a while before they found him a the juror said. A i never cried in court but id go Home and cry. A the whole experience burst my Bubble about feeling Safe in the world. It made me realize you re not really that Safe. The woman he killed could have been a woman id see at the grocery