European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stars and stripes sunday March 182007 Pool in this surveillance camera video new York City auxiliary police officer Nicholas Todd Pekearo is seen wednesday running on Sullivan Street just moments before encountering gunman David Garvin police by shooter had been reservist paranoia by Samantha Gross and Nahal Toosi the associated press new York he had been a Marine corps reservist and a journalist but a relative said a gun Man who killed two Volunteer police officers and a bartender in a shooting rampage had shown a spiralling paranoia in recent years police said David Garvin was shot and killed by police regulars after the deadly spree in manhattans Greenwich Village near new York University and close to Sev eral famous bars and restaurants including cafe wha where Bob Dylan used to perform Garvin had no psychiatric history but a family member said he had claimed people were put to get him police commissioner Raymond Kelly said thursday Garvin had been repeatedly kicked out of the restaurant where the shooting began wednes Day night and May have been angry that a Friend was fired from the establishment police said those possible motives were among several new details to emerge after Garvin 42 turned the neighbourhoods crowded streets into a shooting gallery authorities said Garvin wearing a fake Beard shot 35yearold pizzeria bartender Alfredo Romero 15 times be fore going out on the Street where the unarmed Volunteer officers Fol Lowed him according to police one of the officers ordered Garvin to drop a bag filled with weapons he did but he then led them on a Chase before turning on them he shot one of the officers 19yearold Eugene Marshalik in the Back of the head police said police released surveillance video footage that showed the other Volunteer officer Nicholas Todd Pekearo ducking behind a car before he was fatally shot As Garvin hovered Over him Garvin was heavily armed and prepared to kill at will Kelly said the fact that More lives were not lost is due in no Small measure to auxiliary officers Pekearo and Marshalik who tried valiantly to observe his actions Pekearo his changing locations As he fled the murder scene after shooting the two auxiliary officers and with full time offic ers in Pursuit Garvin ran inside a nearby shop authorities said he emerged shortly afterwards and pointed his gun at the full time officers who shot him dead police fired 56 shots at Garv in Garvin had been a bar tender at an other manhat Tan spot until last month when he was fired said Brian bar Row manager of the Rac Coon Lodge it just want work ing out As a bartender he said there was no animosity Barrow said Garvin did not exhibit any unusual behaviour he was a quiet Man Barrow said very soft spoken youd never guess that he would turn around and kill three people but it seems that usually the Way it is Garvin was  discharged from the Marine corps Reserve in 1988 after nearly three years of service Kelly said police found a resume on Garv ins computer listing jobs As a news paper reporter Stringer and layout editor for the Wall Street journal and the Mohave Valley daily news of Bullhead City Ariz Marshalik Garvin Georgia looks Back lawmakers Cool on slavery apology but Back Confederate history month by Doug Gross the associated press a Lama a panel of Georgia lawmakers signed off thursday Oil a plan to create a Confederate heritage month even As legislative leaders reacted coolly to a push to apologize for the states role in slavery sen Jeff Mullis Bill would dub april As Confederate history and heritage month to Honor the memory of the confederacy and All those millions of its citizens of various races and ethnic groups and Reli Gions who contributed in sundry and myriad ways to me cause of Southern Independence the unanimous vote by the Senate rules commit tee which sent the plan on to the full Senate for consideration conies Days after Black lawmakers announced plans to ask the state to officially apolo Gize for its role in slavery and segregation Era Laws democratic rep Tyrone Brooks chairman of the Georgia association of Black elected officials said its discouraging to see the Confederate month proposal moving ahead after leaders of the Republic can controlled House and Senate said there not in favor of apologizing for slavery Georgia needs to recognize and apologize and atone for its part in the slave Trade As Virginia has done Brooks said until we do i think there will continue to be Resis Tance from Africa americans and others who Are serving in the general Assembly to efforts like con federate month Mullis a Republican said his Bill was not a response to the slavery apology movement in from Chickamauga so it seemed pretty appropriate for me to do something to commemorate the War Between the states Mullis said his family owned land at the site of the Battle of Chickamauga the civil wars second 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