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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . The stars and stripes Page 7 teen gunman 2 in school surrenders Grayson by. Apr a 17-Ycar-old student held a High school class hostage monday afternoon and opened fire with a revolver killing a teacher and custodian before surrendering authorities said. The incident began when the student whose name Wasny to released shot English teacher Deanna Mcdavid 48, in the head in front of a classroom full of students at East Carter High school said state police spokesman Gary Kistner. Quot he fired the first shot and missed and then he walked closer to her and the next shot struck her a Kistner said. Custodian Marvin Hicks 51, who heard the gunfire was shot when he entered the classroom. Witnesses told police Hicks managed to push a student out of the line of fire before he was hit. Quot other teachers who were in the hallway pulled him Hgray sort Lexi Notoris a Kentucky v j / r.  Back into the hallway and tried to help him a said Becky Walker coordinator of the schools youth services Center. Quot and the shooter closed the  about 20 to 30 students were in the classroom when the shooting began Kistner said. The 17-Ycar-old released them a few at a time Over the next 15 minutes before surrendering to police he said. The two victims were killed with a .33-caliber re vol or said Carter county Coroner Roger Sullivan "1 saw the janitor get shot a said John wages 17, who was in an adjoining English class. A the was real quiet. He did no to talk to no one. He just went off. It was  a bystander is beaten in Denver after violence broke out among a group protesting the Kun flux klan. Daughter leads homage to King Wod Daday january 20, 1993 1 police investigate blast at apartment building from wire report mount airy my. A an explosion Early monday destroyed a iwo Story barn converted into four apartments killing one Man. Three others escaped with minor injuries. Officials did no to know the cause of the explosion but officials referred to the shattered area As a crime scene said Deputy chief state fire marshal Charles  when there is question to cause and origin its a crime scene Quot he  men lived in the building. Three suffered scrapes and bruises and declined medical attention authorities said. Deputy chief fire marshal Bob Thomas said the dead Man believed to be in his 50s, was found in a lower apartment. An autopsy was planned. Aneurysm patient succumbs. Chesterton ind. A 73-year-old woman incapacitated nine years ago when she suffered a brain aneurysm has died two weeks after her feeding tube was removed on orders from her husband. Margaret Collins died at the Chesterton health care Center said Joyce Porter the centers nursing director. Local right to life advocates had fought in court to Block the feeding tube removal but a judge ruled against them in december. Collins had been without nourishment since her feeding tube was removed Jan. A her Case Drew criticism from some nurses and members of the Porter county right to life chapter. The group disputed her husband s claim that Collins was unaware of her surroundings. Her husband of 50 years 77-Ycar-old William Collins had no comment after nor death said his brother Frank a bomb architect Dies Jefferson City to. John d. Paulus jr., an architect who worked on the Manhattan project that developed the first atomic bomb has died at age 83. Paulus died Friday at his Jefferson City Home. He joined the Raythelon co. In Concord mass., in 1942 and wound up overseeing a group of engineers drafters and designers working on an electrical guidance system. Quot we did t know what we were working on a Paulus said in an interview last month with the Jefferson City news and Tribune. Then he said Quot one Day we found out it was the Manhattan project. We were working on the bomb. I Felt real proud working on  Kevorkian to fight Law Toledo Ohio a or. Jack Kevorkian Michigan s controversial Quot doctor death a said monday he has no plans to come to Ohio to engage in assisted suicides. But Kevorkian who has helped at least eight seriously ill women commit suicide since june 1990, said lie does plan to violate Michigan a Law that prohibits assisted suicide setting up a court Challenge after the Law takes effect april 1. Kevorkian told a press conference he is counselling three ohioans two men and a woman who arc candidates for assisted suicides. But lie said those procedures would be done in Michigan. Murderer flees from court Baltimore a convicted murderer Dontay Carter who  set off a reign of terror in a series of kidnappings from downtown parking garages was the subject of a massive manhunt monday alter he escaped from the Mitchell courthouse where he was on trial. The search for Carter 19, of Baltimore was a joint Effort of the Maryland state police Baltimore City police and Fri said Leonard Sipes a Public safety spokesman. An Appeal went out to the Public for assistance in apprehending the fugitive. During his trial Carter crawled through the window of the bathroom in Baltimore City circuit judge John Prevas Chambers. He jumped seven feet to the Street and ran West said Sipes Carter was unshackled and had no Handcuffs on at the time. I in was on trial on charges of kidnapping and attempted murder of a Johns Hopkins Hospital physician. Carter was convicted last year in the slaying of Vitalis Pilius a Catonsville computer Engineer who was abducted and taken to a vacant Bouse and beaten to death with a Metal pipe. Atlanta apr Martin Luther King or s daughter urged people marking his Holiday monday to Honor him by keeping Public officials True to their word a and she suggested that president elect Clinton Hasni to been. Quot a True Follower of the Prophet must Point out when people say one thing during the Campaign and do another whether its budget cuts tax cuts or haitian immigration a the Rev. Bernice Albertiny King told 1,100 people who filled Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father used to preach Quot All we say president elect Clinton is say what you mean and mean what you say. Let your Yea be a Yea and your nay be a  the Day honouring the slain civil rights Leader was a state Holiday for the first time in Arizona and new Hampshire in Arizona where voters approved the Holiday in november thousands marched to the state Capitol in Phoenix. Quot this is a Victory and commemoration a said organizer Gene Blue. New Hampshire gov. Steve Merrill issued an executive order last week changing the name of civil rights Day to King Day. A Bill to change the name permanently is pending before the legislature. On monday about 200 people gathered on the statehouse Lawn for the ringing of a Liberty Bell copy. Thousands marched in Denver to Honor King while two dozen White supremacists rallied at the state Capitol. Violence broke out among a group of about 500 people protesting the Kun flux Kjan. About 50 of the anti klan demonstrators broke away from the rally smashed a liquor store s windows and beat a White woman unconscious. Fifteen people were arrested on various charges including one person taken into custody for the woman a beating. Denver mayor Wellington Webb who is Black exhorted the crowd at the King rally to ignore the White supremacists Quot pm big enough where in a not worried about someone smaller than me a he said. Another klan rally took place in Davie fla., where about 200 people listened quietly As speakers said Large numbers of Black people would soon be arriving from Haiti in Memphis tenn., 10,000 people visited the National civil rights museum in the former Lorraine Motel where King was shot to death in 1968, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder and is serving a 99-year prison sentence. Speakers around the nation called for More action to fulfil the goals outlined by the Nobel peace prize laureate who would have turned 64 last Friday  
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