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University Daily Kansan, March 27, 1981
Colleagues pay tribute to Med Center victim
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan... The shotgun blast that killed a second-year resident at the University of Kansas Medical Center last Friday night echeled yesterday when Marc D. Smith was shot to him in a memorial service.
Don Campbell, a second-year medical resident, said Beck "was a gentleman, in the truest sense of the word.
"Marc was a nice guy and any other description would be inadequate," Campbell said.
More than 100 students, faculty and staff at the Med Center sat somberly in Battentfield Auditorium as Campbell spoke.
Beck's family came from Ormaha. Neb., for the service. Beck was buried in Ormaha Tuesday.
"He was one of the best of us and he will be sorely missed," Campbell said.
David Waxman, Med Center executive vice chancellor, expressed the anger that many of his colleagues fell about his death.
"The Med Center grounds are
holy," Waxman said. "This must never be forgotten."
Waxman said Beck lived his life to the fullest in the time he had.
"Marc gave his life in the service of his profession." Waxman said. "There is no holier mission than one that serves mankind."
William Ruth, professor of medicine, expressed the fears of many Med Center employees as he remembered Beck.
Waxman, who called the "important service an "important tribute," said that Beck would live in the memories of those who knew him.
"This tragedy has personal meaning for each of us," Ruth said. "Each one of us knows he could have been Marc."
"We mourn together the waste of a loved one."
Med Center chaplains, the Revs.
George Mundinger and Jerry
Spencer, read from the Palms as
referred sympathy to Beck's
family.
As the Med Center praised Beck yesterday, police continued to search for the gunman. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said yesterday there were no new leads in the case.
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اللجلي ٧-٩-١٠٢٨ م نيوي صحيح باب الحق والرئاسة في العلاقة بين الحق والرئاسة
بأن الحق قد يكون على الحق أو غير الحق ... وقد يكون على الحق أو غير الحق
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للاسلام بمركز التحريم البشرية في المنهج الديني
بأن الحق قد يكون على الحق أو غير الحق ... وقد يكون على الحق أو غير الحق
حيث ينصب عليه الحق الرئاسة في العلاقة بين الحق والرئاسة (الأصول الفكرية)
وفي الحقيقة الحديث Hoch Ad. من جامعة University
للاسلام بمركز التحريم البشرية في المنهج الديني
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, KAN - Investigators have resorted to hypnotizing witnesses in an effort to get an accurate description of the shotgun killer who slayed an emergency room doctor and was waiting for a patient last Friday.
Hypnosis fails to yield Med Center clues
The gunman left many witnesses but few clues when he walked into the University of Kansas Medical Center emergency room and killed Marc Beck, 28, a resident doctor at the Med Center, and Ruth Rybolt, a 54-year-old woman who was waiting for her hospitalized mother.
"We've interviewed a lot of folks and eliminated people who wed been informed might be involved," David Johnson, eastern supervisor of the
Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said yesterday.
Johnson said the hypnosis sessions had yielded no strong information. He said that investigations into seven leadings brought dead ends with no suspects.
The list of leads has been shrinking under police investigation but officers still have no suspect.
"Only one door to the emergency room is open now, and that is manned by a state trooper," Susan Shipley, Med Center spokeswoman, said.
Meanwhile, security measures at the Med Center have been tightened significantly.
THE TROOPERS were assigned to the Med Center by Gov. John Carlin for one week. Several permanent security changes have been made to protect the Med Center after the troopers leave on Monday.
A $100,000 closed circuit television monitoring system is being installed. The system, which has taken nine months to install, will consist of 31 cameras that will be monitored by the KU police dispatcher at the Med Center.
Other security measures at the Med Center include 22 direct telephones to the police and 11 direct alarms, similar to bank teller alarms.
Some additional locks have also been installed since the shooting and additional security measures are being considered, Shinley said.
Both an emergency phone and a direct alarm are in the emergency room but neither was used last Friday night.
THE OTHER SECURITY measure at the Med Center is a $100,000 computer-monitored door security system. Shipley said.
"There are alarms at every perimeter door in the complex," she said. "When a door is open the police dispatcher knows exactly where it is."
Shipley said the door alarms had been accepted by the hospital and were now being tested.
KU police at the Med Center continue to walk preventive patrols 24 hours a day throughout the entire Med Center complex, Shiley said.
A check of other Kansas City area hospitals revealed that hospitals were evaluating their security procedures but had not made substantial changes
Chris Smith, spokesman for St. Luke's hospital in Kansas City, Mo., said that hospital had added one more emergency room (from 8.9 to 16.8 m)
Smith said he did not know of any other changes the hospital was considering to improve security.
Haskim said no security changes had been made because of the shooting.
"We have three guards on every shift and they are all ex-police officers," Haskins said. "We also have an alarm system on the doors."
KEVIN HASKINN, security director at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, said his officers continue do the same as before there at the shooting in the KU Med Center.
"We have never had any problems with security here," he said.
The attorney for a former Lawrence woman whose murder conviction was upheld Wednesday by the Kansas Supreme Court will attempt to get her client's sentence reduced from life imprisonment.
Camille Nohe, attorney for Katieh
Cobb, said yesterday she would discuss
with Cobb what further action they
could pursue.
"Anything less than life would be great," she said.
Cobb murder conviction upheld; appeal planned
The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously upheld a first-degree murder conviction of Cobb in the 1980 murder case she claimed was a victim of suicide.
Cobb, daughter of KU executive vice
chancellor Robert Cobb, was convicted in June 1880 for the death of Lawrence resident Henry Davis. She had sought to overturn her conviction because she said she was assisting in the victim's suicide, a lesser offense.
However, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that no suicide was involved, therefore there could be no claim of assisting a suicide.
Cobb was found guilty last summer by a Shawnee County District Court jury and is now serving a life sentence as an executional Institute for Women in Lansing.
THE VICTIM, Henry Davis, died Feb. 26, 1980 in after Cobb shot him in the head, in order to kill him after a lethal
injection of cocaine failed to kill him.
She gave him the injection as part of an agreement to help him commit suicide, she said.
Noha said Koolbod would not be eligible for parole for 15 years under a life sentence.
Noh argued throughout the appeal that the court made several procedural errors.
She said the jury should have been instructed that it could convict Cobb on a lesser offense than first-degree murder—assisting a suicide.
That offense is punishable by a
criminal sentence in prison, or
according to Krusan state law.
Noho also said the jury should have
been given instructions about what constituted malice. Nobe contended in the trial that no actual malice was involved in Cobb's actions, and therefore, they did not constitute murder.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled those instructions unnecessary because there was 'a suicide in the first place. Cobb caused Davis' death.
Cobb admitted during her trial that she shot Davis. However, she testified that she did so only because of an injury to the gun. She would not let him suffer a lingering death.
Davis, she said, planned a suicide by injecting two grams of cocaine to cause an overdose.
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