Word: salvi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clandestinely, with a high-powered rifle ...'' Nine days later, Dr. Gary Romalis was gravely wounded as he sat at his breakfast table in Vancouver, British Columbia. The rifle bullet had come through the window; the sniper was never caught. The question now is whether this attack-rather than Salvi's alleged rampage seven weeks later-represents the cutting edge of antiabortion extremism, and whether the reign of terror can be stopped before more people are injured or killed...
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...
...extent to which Salvi was a pawn of others remains unclear. Tantalizing bits of evidence link him to the most murderous offshoots of the antiabortion movement. After the carnage in Brookline, Massachusetts, for example, Salvi drove to Norfolk, Virginia, and allegedly blasted out the windows of the Hillcrest Clinic, which even locals have trouble finding. In his pocket was the telephone number of Donald Spitz, a Norfolk-area proponent of "justifiable homicide'' who has been a frequent protester at Hillcrest. Yet so far an extensive federal investigation has failed to establish a criminal conspiracy in the Salvi case...
Genieres said federal prosecutors actedsimilarly in the Brookline abortion-clinic murdertrial. The government is waiting for Massachusettsand Virginia to complete their cases against JohnC. Salvi 3d before going ahead with itsprosecution...
...John C. Salvi III, the student hairdresser who was charged in the Dec. 30 shootings at two Massachusetts abortion clinics, pleaded innocent to state charges of two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of assault with intent to murder. Wearing a bulletproof vest, the unshaven Salvi appeared in the heavily guarded courtroom in Norfolk County, Va. to enter his plea...