European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 31,1994 White House shooting the stars and stripes pages suspect from wire reports Colorado Springs Colo. Whatever was eating at Francisco Martin Duran before saturday s White House gunfire assault was not apparent to neighbors or even his wife until he left Home on an errand four weeks ago and never came Back. Up and Down Albion Street in Security a quiet sub Urb South of Colorado Springs residents expressed Shock that the Man who lived near them in this neigh boyhood of neat Middle class Homes would have opened fire with an automatic weapon at the White House. No one knew where he had gone when he left Home sept. 30. Frank As neighbors knew him told his wife that he was going out to buy some items for target practice. He drove away in a Brown 1989 Chevy s-10 pickup he had recently bought and did not return. His wife told us he left her and their Little boy. She told us she did t know where he was said Jackie Hudgins who lives next door to the durans. He had just bought that truck recently. She said he d just up and left and left her with a $7,000 truck Bill said Hudgins husband Bennie. At the durans Home saturday a Wood Frame split level like Many on the Street halloween decorations Hung from the door. But Duran s wife Ingrid and the couple s 5-year-old son Alex had left quickly when in Grid s sister picked them up at mid afternoon soon after televised reports of Duran s arrest. Neighbors began gathering and talking in Small groups outside their Homes. The durans had moved into the neighbourhood last March and rented the Home neighbors said. Meanwhile new details began to emerge about Duran s troubled past. Duran enlisted in the army and was assigned As an infantryman to the 25th inf div in Hawaii Law enforce ment officials and an army spokesman said. The army said Duran spent 2% years imprisoned at fort Leavenworth kan., after he was convicted in March 1991 on charges of aggravated assault with a vehicle drunk and disorderly conduct Drunken driving and leaving the scene of an Accident. He was dish Ono rally discharged and released in september 1993. Some neighbors said that Duran dressed in Camou Flage Day and night the associated press reported. The durans were quiet and did t mingle with neigh Bors but seemed responsible Jackie Hudgins said. By Juth held jobs. Neighbors said Frank Duran was an upholsterer at the Broadmoor hotel and his wife worked at the Al Pomar health  came to local authorities attention Only when his wife filed a missing person s report. But even his wife could provide no clues to his disappearance. Everything As far As his medical and mental state appeared to be Normal said Elpaso county sheriffs sgt. Dean  Duran said the couple had not argued and were not having problems in their marriage Kelsey said. And she made no mention of any obsession with weapons or of any political activism. No red flags at All Kelsey said. That s what s fairly unique about this report said Kelsey. There s nothing to indicate Why he  motives from Page 1 rained before a . Magistrate today was charged Early sunday with wilfully damaging Federal property and posses sing a firearm As a convicted Felon. The first charge carries a maximum penalty of legally purchased on sept. 13, the same 10 years imprisonment and a $10,000 Day Clinton signed into Law the crime  Clinton had banned imports of the Wear May and the crime Bill outlawed White House bore bumper stickers wit pro gun slogans including fire Butch Reno an apparent reference to attorney general Janet Reno and those who beat their guns into plows will plow for those who Don t. New information emerged about Duran s weapon As Well a chinese so semiautomatic Rifle that ironically was Fine the latter 10 years and $5,000,. The secret service held out the possibility that additional charges could be/filed., / ,.-./ -. I would not eliminate assassination statutes special agent Carl Meyer said. Authorities searched Duran s Home and car to try to determine his intent. The senior administration official speaking on condition of anonymity said several Handwritten documents were found among Duran s belongings including one ambiguously worded note that raised the possibility of his death without any direct mention of depression or an intention to kill himself. From across the country new detail began to emerge about Duran s troubled past. The army said Duran spent 2l/zyears imprisoned at fort Leavenworth kan., after he was convicted of aggravated assault with a vehicle and drunk and disorderly conduct he was dish Ono rally discharged in 1993. Duran s neighbors outside Colorado Springs said he Riever exhibited a violent Streak to them. His wife Ingrid told offi on i magazines of the Type Duran used. But neither action barred sales of gun Mer chants existing Stock. The gun Dealership did t do any thing wrong said Joe Gordon an agent with the Federal Bureau of alcohol to Bacco and firearms stationed in Colora do Springs. It s like somebody bought a bottle of Ketchup at a grocery store an beat someone to death with  White House chief of staff Leon pan Etta said the latest breach of White House Security coming just six weeks after a despondent trucker crashed a Sto Len plane onto the South Lawn illustrated the breadth of the nation s gun violence problem. It s not Only Pennsylvania Avenue that is threatened by these Type of weapons Panetta said. It s probably every officers carry a weapon and a bag containing an ammunition clip to a police car on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on saturday. Trial quarters where Clinton had Bee watching football on the second floor when the attack occurred. Street in Thi  " one shot struck just below a second he said he heard the shots while work floor window to the Queen s bedroom ing in the West Wing and immediately not used on a Day to Day basis another knew it was gunfire adding i Haven t hit in front of the old family dining heard that sound since i was in the army. Room on the first floor a third struck vials that he left Home of sept. 30 to pick you Don t forget that sound Waist High on a Low Wall in front of the up materials for target practice and never the shooting spree left pock Sharks Central doorway. Returned. C scattered across the White House a Ade bullets Are everywhere Meyer the Duran s truck seized not far from the five visible around the press area in the special agent said. West Wing three in the mansion s Cen Meyer said the secret service has Long " advocated extending the secure bound White reporters and photographers look at a window left in the White House press room after bullets were fired into the West Wing. At Rishi Robert Sullivan of Washington shows a Shell casing he found on the sidewalk in front of the White , Robert Sullivan of washing nes around the Whit House but acknowledged that Clinton could never govern in a vacuum shut off from the Public. Where he goes out and meets the people he really is invigorated Meyer said. You can see a whole change take over.". ,.-"-.- / / tourists and passers by were walking along Pennsylvania Avenue just outside the White House on saturday when the shooting began about 3 . A videotape filmed by tourists showed a heavyset gun Man walking toward the White House Fence opening his coat and pulling out Agun. The gunshots were heard on the tape As people nearby visibly flinched at the sound. Witnesses said the gunman then began running and was trying to reload when two men tackled him and turned him Over to agents. The two men were matter of fact in morning after assessment of their con duct. Harry Rakosky 34, of san Antonio said he saw the Man fumbling with the weapon to put in another Magazine. I thought that would be a Good time Totake him out he said. I think the lord had me at the right place at the right time he added. I m real thankful to him that nobody got  the other Man Ken Davis of Hagers town md., said Harry hit him High in the Back. I grabbed his legs As he Wen Down. He kicked a tiny bit and stopped. The Bathe was against his Side pointed