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...KILLED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia magazine; by multiple gunshot wounds; in Moscow. A former senior editor with Forbes in the U.S., Klebnikov was the author of a 2000 biography of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky called Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. Klebnikov was gunned down outside his office and died en route to hospital...
...DIED. SIMON CUMBERS, 36, Irish freelance cameraman working for the BBC; from gunshot wounds; in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cumbers covered stories from Omagh to Murmansk and was described by colleagues as a graceful journalist who had a gift for talking his way into sensitive places. With him in Riyadh was BBC correspondent FRANK GARDNER, 42, who survived being shot in the abdomen. The two journalists came under fire while reporting in a neighborhood believed to be a militant stronghold...
DIED. JOHN WHITEHEAD, 55, R.-and-B. artist best known for his 1979 hit, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which has become the unofficial anthem of Philadelphia's professional sports teams; of a gunshot wound; in Philadelphia. The singer-songwriter who, with his partner Gene McFadden, wrote a string of R.-and-B. hits in the 1970s, was shot in the neck as he and a nephew worked on a car. Police say the nephew may have been the intended target...
...first complete their investigation. Yet many KMT officials privately acknowledge that a recount holds little hope for a reversal, and a U.S. team of experts headed by forensics sleuth Dr. Henry Lee, a star of the O.J. Simpson trial, found "no question" that Chen suffered "a grazing type of gunshot wound...
DIED. HARRY CLAIBORNE, 86, federal judge who was impeached in 1984 after being convicted of tax evasion; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Las Vegas. Claiborne, who had cancer and Alzheimer's disease, was the first federal judge to be sent to prison, where he served 17 months of a two-year sentence. As an attorney, he was considered one of Nevada's top defense lawyers; his clients included Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland...