European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday september 2,1994 Sou in Chicago a the body of a boy found thursday in a Pool of blood be Neath an overpass was identified by police As that of an 11-year-old suspected of fatally shooting a teen Ager and Wood ing two others Robert Sandifur nicknamed Yummy for his love of cookies had been the subject of an intense police Hunt after sunday s shootings. He was found dead on Chicago s South Side about a mile from his Home with at least one gunshot wound to the head police cmdr. Earl Nevels said. Police were searching for a suspect in the slaying. The boy not yet 5 feet tall and weigh ing 66 pounds had a Long police record and gang ties police said. Police superintendent Matt Rodriguez said the boy s death should Send a Mes Sage to other youths that the promises of the gangs. Are not promises of things that Are the shootings occurred sunday within a few blocks of the Home where Robert lived with his grandmother. Police suspect the sixth grader of firing at a group of boys standing on a Street Kinta Britten 16, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound that injured his spinal Cord. He remained in serious condition thursday at Columbus Hospital. Two blocks away and two hours later police say another group of boys was fire Don. /. Sammie Seay 16, was shot in the hand and a stray Bullet caught 14-year-old Sha von Dean in the head about 10 Yards from her House. She was killed. Robert had t been charged in the july 1992 and sunday he was prosecuted at least eight times for felonies including robbery car theft arson and burglary. He was convicted twice and received probation. One judge sentenced him to three weeks of detention for probation violations. V Patrick Murphy Cook county Public guardian said his records show Robert was removed from his Mother s Home in 1986 after investigators found cigarette Burns on his Back and buttocks seems new York a it was faster than a speeding Bullet and even. Gasp faster than Light " actually it Only seemed that Way. Astronomers said thursday that they had found the first example in our Galaxy of matter that looked As if it was doing the impossible by going faster than Light. The Blob of matter was really going at about 92 percent of the Speed of Light researchers say that s still a record for the Galaxy. The faster than Light illusion has been spotted several times before outside the Milky Way Galaxy. But since the new example is closer than previous ones further study might help scientists confirm their understanding of the illusion researchers said. The discovery is reported in thursday s Issue of the journal nature by Felix Mirabel of the Sac Lay Center for studies in if sur Yvette France and Luis Rodriguez of the National autonomous University in Mexico City and the National radio astronomy Observatory in so Cerro . They did Tho work at the new mex Ico Observatory. They observed two blobs of matter blasting away in opposite directions from an object that appears to be a Black Hole or an Ultra dense Neutron Star. One of those blobs seemed to be moving about 25 percent faster than the Speed of Light which is 186,000 Miles per second but it was an illusion caused by the Blob s very High Speed and its moving closer to Earth while Angling Well away from a direct path to Earth. The object launching the blobs is about 40,000 Light years away in the direction of the Constellation Aquila or Eagle. A Light year is the distance Light travels in one year about 5.9 trillion Miles. The fast blobs the fastest moving bulk of matter Ever detected in the Galaxy said Galen Gisler an astrophysics at the los Alamos a Tiona Laboratory in new Mexico. Individual particles have been known to move faster he said. Faster than Light space object Gas 1915105 ejects material that appears to move about 25 percent faster than the Speed of Light. Speeds faster than Light Are impossible according to modern physics. It accretion disk drained away Star Central object blobs of material appear to travel faster than Light interstellar apparition the extreme Speed of the blobs is Anta to Fec toe material travels at 92 percent of the Speed of tight a fest Novin glob of material at Point a moves a degrees to Earth the of Sig he the Light emitted at a in the shoo not drawing the Boob has travelled one night Yea to Point b. The Hugho emitted at Point a meanwhile has 1.08 fight years toward Earth in the same amount of Tiro a the Boob emits at pop no b k Only 0.7s1it-year behind the Light it emitted at a source National radio astronomy Observatory j .946 Light year apparent path of Blob seen irom Earth the Boob appears to arrive at. Point b Only 0.761 year after it was a Point a. It seem Mohave travelled a distance of 0.946 Fig year to Only jjj61 year the Speed of Light. _ a Karl tale Man kills today stagehand in new York a a Man with an As Sault Rifle who was turned away from an in trance to the today show studio killed a stagehand who was trying to Alert police authorities said. William Tager of Charlotte n.c., was charged with murdering theron Mont Gomery at Rockefeller Center one of the City s busiest tourist Sites. Police did not have a motive for the shooting wednesday which took place on a Street crowded with tourists and Home bound office workers. Chief of patrol Louis Anemone said Tager 46, parked his car next to the Abc studio and knocked on the door of an employees Entrance. A Security guard spotted the Rifle and slammed the door in Tager s face and he returned to his car. As Montgomery 33, tried to Flag Down police across the Street Tager returned and shot him once in the Back Anemone said. Tager returned to his car and tried to drive away but was stopped by police scratches on his face and Abdomen and Cord Marks on his legs. He was placed in the custody of his grandmother who Murphy said provided no discipline for Robert and a brother also put in her care. She let them do whatever they wanted Murphy said. He and his brother both engaged in pretty outrageous criminal the grandmother has an unlisted Tele phone number arid could t be reached for comment. If this child was protected five year Sago you save two people. You save the Young offender. But he was t. He fell through the cracks mayor Richard Daley said be fore the body was found. Scatter angry crowd at talk on race Anemone said. Police said they found a loaded chinese made Rifle a copy of a russian ak-47 and three loaded clips inside Tager s car. A semiautomatic Pis Tol and ammunition were in the trunk police said. This could have turned out much More tragically Anemone said at that time of the evening on 49th Street you can Only imagine the carnage someone could have inflicted there with a banana clip and easy Access to additional clips Wedowee Ala. A officers broke up an angry crowd wednesday after a former principal denied that he called a mixed race student a mistake As she claims. Former principal Hulond Humphries called a news conference to offer his ver Sion of the school Assembly that eventually led to a school Boycott an arson fire and his reassignment. His talk in the parking lot acres the Street from the burned out remains of Randolph county High school attracted dozens of spectators As Well As some civil rights leaders. Humphries said his comments during feb. 24 student Assembly at which he threatened to cancel the prom if Interra Cial couples planned to attend were aimed at students who were being very Bowen a mixed race student accused Humphries who is White of say ing her parents made a mistake by hav ing her. He denied the remark. On wednesday he offered his version of the Are having problems and it seems to Stem from interracial dating Humphries recalled saying. _ he said Bowen then jumps up and says who am i to bring to the prom " very disrespectful. Very disrespect Ful Humphries recalled saying. She was joined by others. Very disrespectful he said. At that Point i said that is our prob Lem Humphries said. The Rev. Henry Sterling of the South Ern Christian leadership conference called Humphries a liar and dozens of White and Black adults engaged in an angry verbal Exchange in the parking lot. There were no , who eventually rescinded the prom edict was principal for 25 years l he was reassigned to an administrative Job two Days after the aug. 6 fire destroyed the school. In june the ran Dolph county school Board s insure company Ana Bowen reached a $25,000 settlement in a Federal civil rights lawsuit against the Board and Humphries. Anger Over Humphries comments led Black parents to Send their youngsters to Freedom. Schools like those established during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. A Justice department complaint charging racism in the school District is still under school s new principal is White and a Black teacher was named As an assistant principal
