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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006
CRIME
Questions remain regarding death of Colorado gunman
BY JON SARCHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — The man who took six girls hostage at a Colorado high school last week was shot four times as the standoff ended, once by his own gun and three times by SWAT officers, according to autopsy results released Wednesday by state officials.
Authorities were awaiting more information to determine whether Duane Morrison died from the self-inflicted gun-shot wound or the officers' shots, said Lance Clem, spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Morrison,
a 53-year-
old driver,
had taken six
no drugs or alcohol in his system, Clem said.
Members of the Colorado Springs Christian School, back, join the players of Platte Canyon High School in a prayer before the teams take part in a Class 2A regular-season football game Tuesday in Bailey, Colo. The prayer was for Platte Canyon student Emily Keyes, who was killed by a gunman who entered the school last Wednesday. The game was the first for Platte Canyon since the shooting incident.
girls hostage at Platte Canyon High School Sept. 27. He released four of them before SWAT officers blasted their way into Room 206, when authorities said he shot 16-year-old Emily Keyes before shooting himself.
Clem also said school surveillance tapes showed Morrison's yellow Jeep in the parking lot of the school near Bailey, about 40 miles southwest of Denver, the day before the shooting. District superintendent Jim Walpole said officials do not know what Morrison had been doing at the school then.
"We want to make it certain around the country that the schoolhouse is a safe place for children to learn. May God bless Emily's family."
Clem said autopsy results showed that Morrison killed Keyes with a single gunshot to the back of the head. She and the other five girls had been sexually assaulted, Sheriff Fred Wegener has said.
Tests show that Morrison had
The shooting, one of several at schools across the country in the last several days, was similar to a
David Zalubowski/ASSOCIATED PRESS
GEORGE W. BUSH President of the United States
slaying Monday at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, in which a man tied up 10 young girls and shot them, killing five, before killing himself.
During a fundraiser Wednesday in Denver for GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beaurez.
President Bush said he had asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead a meeting of experts to determine how the federal government can help state and local officials deal with school shootings.
"We want to make it certain around the country that the schoolhouse is a safe place for children to learn," Bush said. "May God bless Emily's family."
Students and parents were allowed to return to Platte Canyon
High for the first time Wednesday to pick up belongings left behind when the building was evacuated last week. Classes were to resume
Thursday.
Room 206 will be sealed off for the rest of the school year, Walpole said Tuesday. He said additional
security officers have been hired and adult visitors will be required to wear name tags in the school.
Several hundred students, parents
and Bailey-area residents attended a football game Tuesday, the first organized event since the shooting. The game was dedicated to Emily.
IRAQ WAR
Unfounded rumors about U.S. troops cause hostile feelings among Iraqi locals
BY ANTONIO CASTANEDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HADITHA, Iraq — Word spread quickly: A Marine search dog had escaped and was roaming the streets attacking children. But the Marines didn't have any dogs in Haditha at the time.
Nevertheless, Marines found themselves having to quash yet another of the baseless rumors that often sweep this city of about 50,000 people, most of them Sunni Arabs wary of U.S. intentions in Iraq.
Rumors — most of them malign-
ing U.S. troops — are a staple of life in the embattled, isolated cities of Anbar province, a region that is a center of the Sunni Arab-led insurgency and where telephones don't work and newspapers rarely appear.
Many residents are afraid to visit other parts of the country such as Baghdad, 140 miles to the southeast, for fear they'll run afoul of Shiite death squads.
In their isolation, most people rely on Arab television networks such as Al-Jazeera for news of the outside world. For local news, the main medium is word of mouth.
No one is sure how the dog rumor started but soon, terrified people were complaining to tribal leaders about a violent animal on the loose. The director of the city hospital even told reporters that seven children had been bitten.
The Americans must be to blame, many people concluded.
"We heard this from the people about dogs roaming the street, the market, that have bitten 20 people," one tribal leader was overheard complaining to a Marine officer.
"Well, they're not our dogs. Wed know if they were ours," replied Capt.
Andy Lynch of Chicago, a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
That didn't satisfy the sheik, who insisted: "Our dogs don't bite."
Lynch told him the Marines didn't have any search dogs in Haditha. And if they had any, he added, they would have searchers out in force if one got loose. Military search dogs "cost more to train than a Marine," he joked.
The sheik was eventually convinced that if there were dogs on the prowl, they were probably packs of strays that regularly roam the city.
Earlier this year, Marines accidentally started fires in two fields in Haditha by shooting warning flares at approaching cars. But insurgents or skeptical residents inflated the story into something much different.
"The people were talking about how the Marines were going and setting people's crops on fire," Lynch said. "Then we had to go out and explain the whole thing."
The city's sectarian makeup makes it a fertile ground for anti-American rumors.
Haditha and most of Anbar is dominated by Sunni Arabs, whose minority was long dominant in Iraq but fell from power with the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Now their long-time rivals in the Shiite majority lead the government and military.
Some of the hostility may also stem from the Marines' own actions. Marines based in Haditha last year allegedly killed 24 civilians after one of their comrades died in a roadside bombing. The Marine Corps is still investigating and no charges have been filed.
Local people are more likely to believe their fellow Sunnis — even those in the insurgency — than strangers like Marines.
"I think there's definitely more of a burden (on Marines) that we're telling the truth, compared to the guy who's on the street spreading rumors, because we're not from here," Lynch said.
Regardless of the reasons, rumors and misinformation make it harder for the Marines to win trust and cooperation of Sunni civilians.
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