European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 12, 1994 i . The stars and stripes Page 7 wives top victims in family by Scripps Howard news service Washington a homicide in american families most often looks like this the victim is the wife killed at night in her Home by a husband who is older than 30, has a criminal record and acted alone. In nearly half the cases a gun is used. In one out of four the weapon is a knife. That is a snapshot of family killings provided sunday by a Bureau of Justice statistics study of the nature and extent of fatal family violence. For the study statisticians at the Justice department Analysed a Sample of 8,603 solved slayings in the nations 75 largest counties in 1988. A they found that 62 percent of family slayings occurred at night. Close to half the killers and a third of the victims had been drinking at the time of the crime. In two thirds of the homicides a male family member was responsible. The statistics showed however that the race of the couple made a difference in who did the killing and who was killed. With White couples about two thirds j of the victims were wives. With. Black couples wives killed their Jyh bands at close to the same rate 47 percent that husbands killed wives 53 percent a finding that surprised study co author Patrick Langan senior statistician at bus was one that showed offspring were slain by their parents about twice As often As children killed their mothers or fathers. Women accounted for 55 percent of the child killers. Mothers also were shown to be More Likely to kill a son rather than a daughter while fathers were about equally prone to kill a child of either  the slaying victim is under 12 years old the data show that a Parent is the killer in about 57 percent of the cases. A a a a a Quot the findings also show that when a daughter killed a Parent the victim in More than 80 percent of the cases was not fazed of situation space Center Houston a some of the youngest passengers aboard space shuttle Columbia a More than 140 embryonic newts rare growing by leaps and Bounds since their launch into orbit last week. The eggs of japanese red bellied newts Are part of the Creepy crawly cargo filling Columbia during its two week Laboratory Mission. Researchers expect the flight to reveal secrets about How the newts along with two kinds of fish sea urchins fruit flies plants and millions of cells rely on Gravity for development and How they behave in weightlessness. The embryos appeared to be doing Well when astronaut Donald Thomas checked on them Early monday. Video images beamed from orbit showed the tiny creatures already sprouting tails within the translucent eggs. A a there a really Good Gill development on a few of them a Thomas said. A the other ones Are just in the late Tail Bud  picked 144 fertilized Newt eggs to Send into space. Four female adult newts1 also Riding aboard Columbia have increased that count by 15 since Fri robber kills himself in standoff mount Morris Mich. A a Man distraught Over a lost Job eviction and marital troubles killed himself after he shot a police officer during an attempted robbery of a convenience store. Michael Acevedo 32, shot himself As police stormed the store sunday morning to free three men he held hostage during a 13-hour standoff police said. Police said Acevedo robbed several people in an apartment building earlier saturday stole a truck and drove to the store about 70 Miles Northwest of Detroit. Officer Kyle guest was shot when he spotted the stolen truck and stopped at the store. He was hospitalized in Good condition. The hostages a including the 74-year-old store owner a were not injured police said. Acevedo threatened to kill one of the hostages and falsely said he had placed them inside a cooler kept at 35 degrees state police it. Gary Post said. Police had negotiated with Acevedo who was out of prison on parole for 10 hours. Acevedo a wife Shelly told the Flint journal that her husband twice called her from the store and said he was a going to take his life  a i just done to know what happened to him. He just snapped Quot she said. She said she and her husband had been having problems lately. Police said Acevedo had lost his Job saturday and was evicted. Learn comp forc a Home with a National he accredited Home it Tiido program <.i. . Her father for sons mothers and fathers had about an Ettl Chance of being the victim. When it comes to the judicial system the study demonstrates that family slayings Are treated in a Way nearly indistinguishable from other homicides. Compared with defendants who killed strangers or acquaintances those who stayed family members were just As Likely to be charged with first degree murder and were no More Likely to have the charges dropped or to be acquitted. Still sentences for those who killed Kin were slightly lighter on average a about 13 years for family murderers and about 15 years for  club kills frustrated teen Gloversville n y. Apr a teen Ager who slammed his. Golf club against a Bench in frustration Over a bad shot was killed when the clubs Sharp broken Shaft snapped Back and pierced his heart authorities said. Jeremy t. Direnno 16, of Gloversville was playing Golf with some friends at the Kingsboro Golf club on saturday afternoon when he hit the Bench with his no. 3 wooden dub at the sixth Hole Fulton county sheriffs deputies said sunday. He was pronounced dead at a Hospital about three hours later. Chiaki Mukai an astronaut from Tokyo and shuttle commander Robert Cabana talk to japanese dignitaries on Earth in a televised View from Columbia. Days launch Nasa said monday. Japanese researchers in charge of the Newt studies expect most of the eggs to Hatch before the shuttle and its Crew of seven to return to Earth on july 22.people read you just did. You can now advertise your products events and services to 150,000 daily readers at incredibly Low rates. This and for example can Cost you As Little As $51.72. For info Call Germany civilian 06155-601247 or Dan 348-8247. Get computer train Imp and Fermi cation of a ism c0mpahbie 4?r. Mint Tower computer system that s yours 10 keep  mar  a lie 486  Send for fret information today1 in Germany Call 06302-92120 i am interested in earning a certificate in computer operations polled Girts see life outside marriage new York a girls think they re More Likely to have a Job than a husband when they grow up according to a new poll. 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