Word: westons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peer outside, Capitol policemen were stationed in the hall. "The policeman told us to lock the door and stay inside," he says. Other officers gathered up tourists and shoved them into whatever offices they could, telling them to stay put as they tried to restore order and determine whether Weston was acting alone. The building was sealed, and officers began a room-to-room search, blocking stairways and elevators. When they had determined that this was not a coup, not a conspiracy, but rather another loner with a gun, they finally let people leave, filing back out into the sunshine...
...know a lot more now than we used to about angry boys who kill cats for sport; "Rusty" Weston made it to age 41 before he started killing people too. He divided his time between his parents' home in Valmeyer, Ill., and a shack on a half-acre plot in Rimini, Mont., a dirt-road hamlet in the shadow of Red Mountain named by isolated Irish miners smitten by a touring performance of Tchaikovsky. He panned for gold with little luck, tinkered with junked cars and lived on government disability payments that were based on a history of mental illness...
...worked to resuscitate first one victim, then another. "I was really just focused on keeping their hearts and lungs moving," he said. Gibson was hustled out to a helicopter and whisked away to Washington Hospital Center; DeLay gathered his staff to pray for the officer. Frist meanwhile stayed with Weston, unaware that he was the shooter, helping to keep him ventilated as they rode in the ambulance to D.C. General Hospital...
Officer Jacob Chestnut, 58, an 18-year veteran of the Capitol Police who was looking forward to retiring in a few months, was smiling, greeting visitors at the security checkpoint at the Document Room entrance on the House side. It was about 3:40 when Russell Weston Jr., 41, came through the doors, dressed in khakis and a hat, and tried to go around the metal detectors. Hold on a minute, Chestnut said, moving to stop him as he tried to barge through. Weston pulled out a revolver and shot him in the head, then ran down the hall toward...
...Weston came charging into DeLay's suite, already hit by the hail of fire from the other cops at the entrance. "They were laying down some lead," says a staff member who was inside. Gibson, also an 18-year veteran, saw the gun and did it by the book. He yelled, "Drop your weapon!" Weston got off two shots, hitting Gibson in the leg and chest; Gibson shot him in the leg, and both men went down, Weston's gun landing on a staff member's desk. DeLay burst from his office at the sound of the shooting and began...