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ELENA SHUMSKY Orlando...
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...backpack.'" But several passengers recall events differently. "I never heard the word bomb on the plane," says McAlhany, a construction worker from Sebastian, Fla., who notes, "I don't think they needed to use deadly force with the guy. He was getting off the plane." Jorge Borrelli, an Orlando architect who was also on the flight, says he thinks Alpizar may have feared being the victim of a terrorist attack. He remembers hearing Buechner say after the shooting that her husband thought there was a bomb on the plane and felt he had to get off. Says Borrelli: "He didn...
Indeed, according to Alpizar's neighbors in Maitland, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, he was an easygoing guy. They recall Alpizar and Buechner as a close couple often seen jogging and biking together. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Alpizar, who was 44, worked as a paint salesman at Home Depot and became a U.S. citizen several years ago. "He was very American," says Louis Gunther, whose house is directly across the street from Alpizar's. "He loved it here. He has a flag up in his backyard all the time." But Gunther and other neighbors say they were...
Four days before Christmas in 1994, John David Edington, 22, the adopted son of a Presbyterian minister named Howard Edington, was driving home through an Orlando, Fla., downpour when he lost control of his car and ran into a tree. He died instantly. The tragedy was mourned deeply in lofty reaches of the evangelical world because the Rev. Edington is an extremely respected minister and at the time was the personal pastor to Bill Bright, founder of the megaministry Campus Crusade for Christ...