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...close reading of the Old Testament reveals that Adam, Solomon and many other major Biblical characters were ancestors of the African people, the Rev. Dwight McKissic said to a gathering of more than 25 people at Boylston Hall last night...
McKissic said that other notable Biblical characters, such as Adam, Eve, Solomon and Joshua, were also dark-skinned...
Following the tragedy came the revelations of how the justice system had failed. One of the suspects, Rodney Eugene Solomon, has a history of violence and drugs. A week earlier, Solomon, 26, had been released from a District of Columbia jail where he was being held on charges of distributing heroin. Solomon's next arrest, this time for Basu's murder, triggered a round of finger pointing between federal prosecutors and D.C. Superior Court Judge Reggie B. Walton. Each side blamed the other for failing to keep Solomon behind bars despite fears that he was a danger to the community...
Howard County police have vowed that the two suspects, Solomon and 16-year- old Bernard Eric Miller, will pay for the countywide crime spree. "The suspects expressed no remorse, I can tell you that," said Lieut. Daniel Davis. As Solomon was being booked for first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping, he muttered to himself and blew kisses at a female officer. For their protection, they were held in solitary cells, where late last week Solomon was found with bed sheets tied around his neck. Jail officials were uncertain whether it was a bungled suicide attempt or an effort...
...unconventional, family. "It was the happiest day I ever had in court," he says. "A wonderful event. The judge gave the kids lollipops." But ask Weltz how he feels now, after the family has been riven by charges of betrayal and abuse, and he sounds like a morose King Solomon -- one who cunningly offered to split a child in two only to hear both putative parents say that was fine with them. He muses, "I knew not what we had done...