Word: salvi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final toll in the two-day shooting spree was two dead and five wounded. Were it not for security guard Richard Seron's quick reflexes, the casualties could have been much higher: Salvi's abandoned satchel also contained a second gun and 700 rounds of ammunition...
...minutes later, the grisly scene was replayed, almost step by step, at Preterm Health Services, less than two miles away. Again the man police identified as John C. Salvi III, a 22-year-old hairdresser from Hampton, New Hampshire, made sure he was in the right place. Again he fatally shot the receptionist -- Leanne Nichols, 38 -- and again he kept on shooting. It was only when a security guard returned fire that the rifleman dropped his bag and fled. Yet even in retreat, he kept his composure. Says Angel Rodriguez, who witnessed the shooter's escape: "He was completely calm...
...Salvi moved quickly in the direction of Brookline's Cleveland Circle. Within hours, police had identified him through a gun-shop receipt in the bag he had left behind. And on Saturday, even as local, state and federal law-enforcement officials were mounting a multistate manhunt for the 5 ft. 11 in. curly-haired fugitive, there came reports of another, nonfatal shooting at the Hillcrest Clinic in Norfolk, Virginia. The suspect, arrested shortly thereafter, was John Salvi...
...John C. Salvi III-- the man accused of killing two Massachusetts abortion clinic workers -- will be extradited to Boston to stand trial. Until now, he has been held in Virginia where he faces less serious charges of firing at an abortion clinic the day after the Massachusetts slayings; no one was hit in the Virginia incident. FBI investigators also are probing whether Salvi's alleged shooting spree was part of a larger conspiracy against abortion clinics. Salvi is expected to be arraigned in Boston tomorrow...
Already facing several charges in connection withabortion clinic shootingsin two states, John C. Salvi III was indicted today on federal charges of transporting a firearm across state lines for violent purposes. A Boston grand jury returned a two-count indictment, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in the slammer and $250,000 in fines. Other charges are expected to follow. Salvi is accused of killing two clinic workers in Massachusetts on Friday and firing a hail of bullets at a Norfolk, Virginia clinic on Saturday. He is currently being held without bail in Virginia; prosecutors have...