European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes us. A woman is comforted near a Palatine Iii., restaurant on saturday after the bodies of seven workers were removed. Relatives police seek clues to Illinois restaurant massacre Palatine Iii. A family and friends gathered around the cordoned off restaurant some in tears trying to figure out from the cars left in the parking lot who had been killed. Seven people were found shot to death in a fast food restaurant saturday in suburban police chief Walt Gasior declined to about suspects or the motive but confirmed that police were talking to former and current employees. The victims a the restaurant s two owners and five employees two of them teen Ager were discovered at a Brown s Chicken and pasta restaurant a described As a Homey place where no one worried about safety a shortly after 2 30 a.m., Gasior said. Several Chicago area newspapers All quoting unidentified sources reported in sunday editions that a Man in nearby Elgin was taken into custody for questioning. Palatine and Elgin police refused to comment on the reports. 1 police called by parents of a restaurant employee who did not get Home Friday night found the restaurants rear door open and the bodies inside Gasior said. All had been shot and left in two walk in coolers at the Back of the restaurant Gasior said. Relatives of one victim restaurant Cook Guadalupe Maldonado said earlier that police were telling them nothing about How he died. Maldonado a brother Pedro said the 48-year-old Cook had worked at Browne a for Only 2vz weeks and was on his first week working nights. Police tentatively identified the other victims As the restaurants owners Richard e. Ehlenfeldt and his wife Lynn and restaurant employees Rico l. Soils 17, Michael c. Castro 16, Thomas mencs 32, and Marcus Nel-l$en,31. The last bodies weren t removed from the restaurant until after 6 . Employees Jason Georgi and Celso Morales Iii both 17, said they never worried about Security at Browne a which stands alone at an intersection about 100 Yards from Airstrip of stores. Workers usually closed the restaurant at 9 . And left within an hour after counting Money from the Cash registers and cleaning up Georgi said. Front doors were locked at closing time but a Back door was left unlocked until the last employee left he said. Georgi estimated the store would accumulate up to $3,000 Cash Between deposits to its Safe. A it was t like a horrible place to be a Morales said. A it was sort of seven people most of them teen agers usually worked each shift said Georgi who had taken Friday night off. Frank Portillo president of the 115-restaurant Brown s Chain came to Palatine to extend sympathy to the victims families. A we All feel this loss personally a Portillo told reporters his voice choking. The Chain is based in suburban Oak Brook. Fred Brown son of the chains founder and an owner of four stores in the Chicago area came to the Palatine police station As a Volunteer to help notify families of the victims. A i Feci 1 owe it to the families and relatives. 1 do care. It is my name that is on there a Brown said. A a in a very sorry for them a. A a chaplains were also at the station to help relatives. Haitian protesters Jam Florida Camp Miami apr hundreds of demonstrators chanting a Justice for haitians jammed the Gates of a Federal immigration detention Camp saturday where 45 refugees were in the 10th Day of a hunger strike. A i have to fight for my people to be free. This is injustice this is racism a said Shadrac Valentine who with about 250 others confronted immigration officials at the Entrance of the Krome detention Center. Inside six men and 39 women were taking part in the hunger strike to protest what they say Are unfair immigration policies favouring cuban refugees Over haitians. Roland dormancy who Heads the haitian refugee Center in Miami said Many of the strikers were growing weak some had been forced to eat and some had been beaten. Ken Powers of the immigration and naturalization service who stood in front of saturdays protesters said the Agency would not comment until the demonstration was Over. Another ins officer who declined to give his name said late saturday that two arrests were made but did not specify on what charges. He also repeated claims made by the ins earlier in the week that the hunger strike was Over a a claim contradicted by attorneys who have visited the strikers. The strike began two Days after the Quick release of 48 cubans who commandeered an Airliner to Miami on dec. 29. Most cubans who arrive in the United states Are quickly released under the terms of the cuban resettlement act of 1966, which Grants Asylum to people from that country who flee communism. But Many of the 40,000 haitians who have fled to the United states Siree a military coup ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide in 1991 have been returned to Haiti. The refugees said they were fleeing political persecution but Federal officials said nost were simply trying to escape poverty. Haitians have charged that the real reason their people Are turned Back while cubans Are allowed in is that haitians Are Black. A a if it was White people they would let them go and that is racism Valentine said. Nation s first mover elect prepares for the big Job from wire reports. Tulsa okla. A Lany Isaacs has been moving furniture for More than two decades but it All / comes Down to his next Job. Isaacs a United Van lines worker from Tulsa Wilt cart the goods of president elect Clinton and his family from Little Rock ark., to the White House. A it will just take one Load because the White House is furnished a he said Friday. The Load will include the Clinton bedroom suite Hillary Clinton a desk and lots of books and clothing he said. Isaacs 53 said he s not afraid of dinging a White House doorway or dropping a Box or two. A a in be been doing this for 21 years a he said. He was picked by United because a a he a our top Van operator a Saia Jan Brawley the company a Long distance dispatcher. Isaacs leaves for Little Rock on tuesday. The secret service has t told him when he will leave for Washington. Isaacs admits to being a Little jittery. A i mean this is the president of the United states a he said.2 would be rescuers die Kenosha wis. A two men drowned saturday when they fell through ice on a Lake while trying to Rescue a woman whose snowmobile had crashed. The woman was pulled out by sheriffs divers and survived. 1 Edward Gureczny 44, a tavern owner and David Barhyte 31, a customer at the tavern fell through the ice into Camp Lake As they tried to make their Way to the woman whose snowmobile had broken through Trevor fire chief Tom seep said. Quot the men rushed to her Aid after a passenger on the snowmobile pulled himself from the water and called for help the Kenosha county sheriffs department said. Sheriffs divers eventually pulled All three from the water but Gureczny and Barhyte were pronounced dead at a Hospital. The snowmobiles Driver Susan d. Kannin 26, of Kenosha was in fair condition at Kenosha Hospital sheriffs officials said. Her passenger Michael Moyzis 38, of Markham Iii., also was in fair condition,13 theft suspects nabbed san Jose Calif. A the Fri and local authorities teamed to break up a gang of alleged computer equipment thieves possibly involved in a string of Home robberies. Thirteen men ranging in age from 18 to 30 were arrested Friday. Authorities stopped five cars and found five handguns Nylon masks heavy duty tape rope gloves and Walkie talkies Saia police sgt. Dennis Luca. Two of the cars had been reported stolen. Police also raided a san Jose Home and found $500,000 Worth of computer chips circuit boards Cash and valuables that could link them to several Home robberies in the asian Community authorities said. A the information we had received indicated that these individuals were prone to violence and were prepared to commit violent acts in conjunction with robbery a said Fri spokesman Rick Smith. The men Alt from cities in the greater san Francisco Bay area allegedly were part of a loosely organized gang authorities said Barbara Silano a Federal prosecutor said it was unclear whether they it Yould face Federal racketeering charges. Father faces murder charge Chicago Heights Iii. A father who became upset Over a televised football game and allegedly fatally injured his 5-month-old son by shaking him has been charged with murder authorities said saturday. Attempted murder charges against Roosevelt Dell 22, were upgraded to murder Friday after an autopsy showed his son Bryan died of multiple Blunt trauma on new years Day prosecutors say Bell lifted the baby from his Lap and a Shook him violently for 10 seconds when the University of Colorado scored a touchdown during Syracuse University a Victory in the fiesta bowl Jan. 11 he baby suffered a detached brain Stem and detected Retinas common in a shaken baby deaths said assistant Cook county states attorney John Somerville. The father took the baby to a Hospital 20 minutes later when he found the infant shaking and noticed his eyes had rolled Back into his head Somerville said
