Word: gunman
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...subway passengers. Although the cult denies involvement with the gassing, or with the shooting of National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, police have seized a cache of hazardous chemicals during raids on the sect's compounds. Kunimatsu was in serious condition after surgery requiring 21 pints of blood. The gunman wore a surgical mask and fled by bicycle. Police are trying to track down the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, whose whereabouts have been unknown since the gas attack...
TRAINEE HAIRDRESSER JOHN SALVI, who is charged with killing two abortion-clinic workers in Massachusetts, certainly fits the profile of a lone gunman: socially awkward, emotionally volatile, paranoid and somewhat delusional-judging from his rambling statement to police after his arrest in December. But Salvi's lawyers will go to court in the next month and argue that he is unfit to stand trial. To bolster the argument, they intend to portray him as a mentally unstable young misfit pushed over the edge by the exhortations of radical antiabortionists. Phone numbers and literature found in Salvi's possession indicate that...
...this month by the family of Dr. David Gunn. The suit, authored by attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks to hold antiabortionist John Burt and his group, Rescue America, liable for Gunn's murder outside a Florida clinic two years ago. It claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled the trigger but that the shooting was encouraged to stop abortions," explains Dees, who has won two similar "wrongful death'' cases, against the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama...
...from Sheriff Anderson's office in El Paso County: "The police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves." One of the most potent advocates in the Texas debate has been Suzanna Gratia, who watched helplessly as a deranged gunman executed 23 people--including her parents--at a cafeteria in the town of Killeen four years ago. At the time, Gratia's own .38-cal. was lying in the trunk of her car because she was obeying the current concealed-weapons law, "the stupidest mistake of my entire life...
Long Island Railroad gunman Colin Fergusontoday was sentenced to six consecutive life prison terms for killing six passengers on a crowded commuter train. Judge Donald Belfi capped three days of wrenching court statements from enraged survivors of the 1993 shooting spree by also heaping on sentences of 8 to 25 years in prison for each of the 19 additional people injured by Ferguson's fire. "You, Colin Ferguson, will never again return to society," Belfi said. In a rambling statement before the sentencing, Ferguson compared himself to the martyred saint John the Baptist. "He was beheaded by a criminal justice...