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...Gammage, 31, was driving Seals' Jaguar through a mostly white suburban neighborhood when he was stopped by police, ostensibly for driving erratically. After an officer knocked a cellular phone from Gammage's hand--he later claimed he thought it was a gun--officers pinned Gammage face down on the pavement. He later died of suffocation. Only three of the five suburban officers present went to trial. One was acquitted of involuntary homicide by an all-white jury. The case against the other two resulted in a mistrial...
...fire. Disappearing into a public parking garage, the shooter got into a red 1995 Chevrolet pickup, changed clothes, then fled again on foot. At the sound of the gunfire, meanwhile, Versace's companion D'Amico had rushed from inside the house to find the designer face up on the pavement in a spreading pool of his own blood. At the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, doctors declared him dead. Ballistics tests later found that the gun that killed Versace was the same one that had killed two of the earlier victims...
...Louis says she walked into her mother's house one day in 1959 to find Connerly, then a freshman at American River Junior College, "sitting down in the kitchen cutting a piece of paste-board and putting it into his shoe. I said, 'What on earth--?' He said, 'The pavement's so hot.' He was covering these big round holes in the soles of his shoes so he could walk to college." His detractors, she says, "are just lyin' on him. It's jealousy and it's hatred...
...went to New York and started like everyone else, beating the pavement, trying to see agents and seeing if I could get an agent or get something," Lemmon told a crowded Eliot House library in April...
After "beating the pavement" for many years in New York, Lemmon proceeded to flourish as an actor, his work prolifically spanning radio, stage, film, and television...