European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes violent december sunday of Teemar 19.1993ex-con bought Rifle before rampage Hugo okla. Apr an angry cd convict purchased an assault Rifle from a pawnshop Only hours before opening fire in a store parking lot Friday leaving two people dead and three injured. David Mack Flinn 39, then drove Down a dead end Road to end his own life. He remained a mystery saturday As police struggled to find a motive for the shootings at the Wal Mart store in this Southeastern Oklahoma town of 6,000, detectives from the Oklahoma state Bureau of investigation searched of tinny a trailer Home in neighbouring Grant and interviewed relatives for clues to the private violent vendetta of the single unemployed Man. This is what they know hours before the 11 14 . Shootings Flinn lodged a complaint about a neighbor shooting his dog. Tell prosecute this myself Quot Flinn told a Deputy before storming out of the sheriffs office. A Choctaw county sheriffs Deputy who checked out the complaint found no dog and no sign of violence at Flinne a House. Flinne a next Stop was a pawnshop where he lied about his string of theft and burglary convictions to buy the ,223-Caiiber semiautomatic assault Rifle and ammunition. About two hours later it Luke Sheehan 52, and Mary Sheehan 49, were killed As they walked out of Wal Mart the Bureau said. Quot it was just Bam Bam Bam Quot said Mary Lou Wilkins who works in the shopping Center. "1 thought this is not for real. And then i saw people ducking and running. Quot there was fire coming out of his gun,.then he took off and there were people lying there on the  bullets injured two people including a woman hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the leg and a woman who was grazed by a Bullet and also was Cut by flying Glass from the shattered storefront. A third victim was injured by Glass. A a we re very fortunate that More people Arentt dead a Hugo police chief Royalia Akins told the Tulsa world. Quot the store was pretty Well packed. We thank god it was Only  minutes later Flinn was found dead in his truck on a dirt Road a few Miles away the Bureau said. Three guns and ammunition were in his truck. Police found Aneth a medical team moves a victim to an ambulance alter a shooting attack Friday outside a Wal Mart in Hugo okla. Or Rifle in Flinne a Home. Investigators initially said the Sheehane were his intended victims but later backed away from that. Quot basically this is just a random shooting a assistant District attorney Clark Leforce said. Flinne a rap Sheet lists a string of burglary and theft Long Island train suspect bid for new lawyer convictions in Pomona calif., and Dallas Between. 1976 and 1987. He also pleaded guilty in 1979 to assault with a deadly weapon in san Bernardino Calif records show. A people Are alarmed a said Judy Wilson of the Hugo chamber of Commerce characterizing the shooting As a something that happens in Large  by newday m1neola, , in his first Public statement since allegedly shooting to death six people during a rampage through a commuter train Colin Ferguson on Friday rejected his court appointed attorney and asked to be represented by a Brooklyn lawyer but the judge denied the request for the time being. Also during the appearance Ferguson complained through the court appointed lawyer Anthony Falanga of his treatment in jail alleging that he was hit with a milk crate and a fire extinguisher by corrections officers a mail spokesman said the complaint would be investigated. After asking Nassau District judge Ira b. Warshaw Lcy if he could make a statement on the record Ferguson 35, said a to asking that the court release or. Falanga of representation of me and my Case and that or. Colin Moore be designated my attorney in this  asked if he planned on retaining Moore who was present in court Ferguson said Quot he a agreed to take my Case free of Cost. He paid me a visit recently in jail. And agreed to do it pro  but Warshawsky denied the request for now noting that Falanga had already requested a psychiatric examination of his client. Warshawsky ordered the results of that exam to be announced in court Jan. 4. Ferguson was charged with murder in the dec. 7 massacre on a Long Island rail Road car that left six people dead and 19 wounded. He also is charged with criminal Possession of a weapon and authorities have indicated that they will seek additional charges when the matter is presented to a grand jury. Authorities say Handwritten notes found on Ferguson after his arrest indicated that hate for Whites asians Quot Uncle Tom negroes Quot and others prompted him to empty a 9 my semiautomatic pistol into unsuspecting commuters on the 5 33 . Tram from Manhattan a Penn station to Garden City Long Island. Moore who has described Ferguson Sast behaviour As Quot delusional a is known for is civil rights work and had. Been approached by Ferguson in an unrelated Case two years ago. He told the judge that he visited Ferguson in jail after leaders in the Black and Caribbean communities asked him to become involved. Moore declined to name individuals or organizations. Moore said initially that he did not believe the shooting was racially motivated but added that he could not say for certain since he had not seen the evidence being collected by police and the District attorneys office. In court after Ferguson a request to Swap attorneys was denied Falanga told the judge Quot my client has asked me to Tell the court that he has no intention of cooperating with me in the  Falanga then described the alleged abuse Ferguson said he was suffering at the jail including an attack by corrections officers Quot by Way of a milk Box and a fire  Falanga said the attack had occurred recently. A month of Slaughter by the associated press the killings at a Wal Mart shopping Center in Hugo okla., on Friday were the latest in a series of shootings this month around the nation. Some others a dec. 7 a gunman fired repeatedly As he walked through a Long Island rail Road commuter train near new York City. Six people died and 17 were wounded. The suspect Black jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson was driven by racial hatred police said. A dec. 14 a Man shot four workers to death and wounded a fifth at a pizza parlor in suburban Denver police arrested Nathan Jerard Dunlap 19, who was fired from the restaurant four months ago. A dec. 16 Paul de Renne 47, a geologist involved in a mining claim dispute with his brother Don de Renne smiled a pistol in a Boise Idaho con Terence room. Police said de Renne killed his brother and another person before committing suicide a dec. 16 a Man killed a school superintendent and wounded a principal and teacher at a High school in Chelsea Mich. Police arrested Steve Leith 39, a chemistry teacher who was involved in a Union grievance. . Homicides break 92 level by the Washington Post. Washington the fatal shootings of three people Friday night brought a up nil Takap a of l 11 / a p the number of slayings in Washington this year to 454, surpassing the total for All of last year and dashing the Hopes of n i fit 1 an f4 a a a a it a a l. 1. 4 i #. City leaders who had looked for a continued downturn in violence last years homicide total 451, represented the first decline since a wave of killings began building in 1986. But 1993 has proved to be a bloody year that will become at least the third worst Ever for homicides in the District after 1991 and two of Friday nights slayings happened about 7 30 . In the Congress Heights Section of Southeast Washington when a 19-year-old Man and his 14 year old sister were shot in a car police said. The third occurred about the same time when a Man was fatally shot in the Benning neighbourhood of Northeast Washington. The slaying that raised the number of homicides to last years total 451, occurred thursday night on a crime plagued Street North of mount Vernon Square it had much in common with Many of the years other killings police said they suspected it was drug related. It involved a gun and occurred before Midnight and its victim identified by police As Terry Hunter 19, was a Young Black male. The killings Are being investigated by a homicide unit burdened by crushing caseloads and sagging morale