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4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2005
No place like home
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Meinhardt Raabe, right, who played Munchkinland's coroner in the 1939 MGM musical, "The Wizard of Oz," talks about the film as two other former Munchkins, Mickey Carroll, left, and Karl Slover, look on at a news conference Friday on the stage of the Columbian Theatre in Wamego. A total of five Munchkins will participate this weekend in Wamego's first Octoberfest.
COURTS
Prosecutors pursue capital charge in shooting death of police officer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA — A Newton man accused of shooting a Harvey County sheriff's deputy to death could get the death penalty if he is convicted.
Prosecutors announced their decision to pursue a capital murder charge on Friday, at the close of a preliminary hearing for Gregory Moore.
Sedgwick County District Judge David Kennedy bound Moore over for trial on the capital murder charge and four counts of attempted capital murder and set a trial date of Jan. 9.
Deputy Kurt Ford and wounding Hesston Police Det. Chris Eilert early on the morning of April 9, as they and other officers in an emergency response team stormed his home in answer to a domestic violence call.
Moore is accused of killing
The officers said they went in after hearing Moore's live-in girlfriend beaten beaten.
"I started to hear gunfire, and immediately Kurt let out a groan, is the best way to put it," Elert testified during the hearing. "He fell flat on the floor. I continued in and immediately felt a burning in my right calf. I realized we were being shot at,
and that I'd been shot."
Eilert was hit four times, one of the bullets nearly severing his left index finger.
Alveda Sparks, Moore's girlfriend, testified that during a standoff that led up to the shooting, Moore promised that there would be violence.
"He said, 'There's going to be a bloodbath,' and that I was going to die with him, and that it was my fault," she said.
Sparks escaped when Moore went into another room. On her way out of the house, she ran into the officers coming in — knocking aside the lead officer, who carried a bullet-resistant shield.
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