Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid her a visit. They discovered what deputy city attorney Robert Ferber described as "a museum for gang memorabilia." There were gang graffiti on a bedroom's walls. There were snapshots of Williams posing with teenagers making gang recognition signs. Another photo caught her youngest son, 8, pointing a pistol at the camera...
...here to hurt anyone," said Rudolfo Linares, wielding a .357-cal. pistol. "I'll only hurt you if you try to plug my baby back in." Linares, 23, and his wife Tamara had come to the Chicago hospital in the middle of the night to visit their 15-month-old son. Since swallowing an uninflated balloon and suffocating at a birthday party last August, little Samuel had been partly brain dead, kept alive by a life-support system...
Linares, a burly landscaper, held doctors, nurses and police at bay with the pistol while he unplugged his son's ventilator. Sobbing, he cradled Samuel in his arms for 40 minutes, even after a monitor that remained attached to the baby showed that his heart had stopped beating. Linares then turned over his weapon and surrendered. As the handcuffed father was led into a police station, Linares said, "I did it because I loved my son." He was charged with first-degree murder and has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric examination...
Blacks should have been more concerned about Willie Horton the criminal. He escaped from prison and tortured a married couple, raping the woman several times and repeatedly pistol-whipping her husband. I'm less concerned with his color than with his actions and the program that allowed him to escape. Nonetheless, many people believe that this series of ads led to the increased racial voting around the country...
...everything else pointed to Harris. Both the car and the pistol had been stolen by Harris. The teenager had been in trouble before. Harris even boasted to some friends that he had killed Wood. Still, the prosecution bought Harris' story. Adams' attorney, Randy Schaffer, contends that Harris supplied two things the prosecutors wanted: an eyewitness (Harris) and someone to execute (Adams). Harris was too young for the death penalty...