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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY,MAY 10,2007
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》 WARD PARKWAY MALL SHOOTING
Shooter has killed before
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 51-year-old man who killed two strangers at a shopping mall before being shot to death by police last month had fatally shot a man in 1981 during a fight over a woman.
Logsdon, of Kansas City, opened fire the afternoon of April 30 in the parking lot of Ward Parkway Center, randomly killing Leslie N. Ballew, 33, of Kansas City, and Luke A. Nilges, of nearby Shawnee, Kan.
But David W. Logsdon never stood trial for the earlier killing, which he claimed was accidental, because a Clay County grand jury declined to indict him. The Kansas City Star reported Wednesday.
Logsdon then entered the mall — where he had worked as an unarmed security guard at a Target store until losing his job last year — and fired
He also was suspected in the beating death of his 67-year-old nextdoor neighbor, Patricia Ann Reed, a few days before the mail shoots.
more shots until a police officer shot him.
In December 1981, Logsdon was working as a security officer at Kansas City International Airport when he had a fatal showdown with 24-year-old Steven L. Foster.
Foster was the estranged husband of Sherlene Foster, an airport gift shop employee who had a secret relationship with Logsdon.
On the night he died, Steven Foster went to the Kansas City home he and Sherlene had formerly shared to pick up his children and take them to see the Country Club Plaza's Christmas lights.
Logsdon was at the house, but Sherlene and her 16-year-old sister, Reva, lied and said Logsdon came to
see Reva. the newspaper reported.
Steven Foster drove off with his son but forgot his daughter. When he came back, he saw Logsdon and Sherlane wearing coats and about to get into Logsdon's car. Reva and her boyfriend were outside watching.
"I remember this part like it was yesterday," recalled Reva Neubauer, now a 41-year-old Columbia, Mo. resident. "He said, 'You led to me, Sherlene, I knew you did.'"
Steven Foster punched Logsdon, igniting the fistfight. Neubauer ran inside to call police and her boyfriend followed, saying there was a gun. Logsdon soon followed, shut the door behind him and announced that Steven Foster had killed himself. Neubauer recalls that Logsdon then asked her to lie that Foster committed suicide using Logsdon's gun — which he was supposed to have left at work.
TAX LEGISLATION
Kansas courts fight Cabela's
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TOPEKA — Outdoor gear seller Cabela's is fighting the state's attempt to collect $392,000 in sales tax, penalty and interest on Internet and catalog transactions.
The case is thought to be among the first to set the stage for clarifying Kansas' 2003 tax law on merchandise bought by Kansans online or through catalogs and delivered to them in the state.
Cabela's Catalog, Cabelas.com and Cabela's Marketing and Brand Management.
Nebraska-based Cabela's Inc. which has a store in Wyandotte County, is the nation's largest direct marketer. The sales tax assessment does not involve sales at the store, instead targeting three subsidiaries
The Kansas Department of Revenue audited financial records of
the subsidiaries from August 2002 to September 2004.
The agency concluded the subsidiaries were "doing business in this state" under a Kansas statute enacted in 2003 and should have forwarded sales tax on tangible personal property delivered to Kansas customers for use in the state.
In January 2006, the state issued assessments of tax, penalty and interest for $253,700 to Cabela's Catalog, $110,600 to Cabelas.com, and $28,500 to Cabela's Marketing and Brand Management.
Now, a challenge of the assessments is pending before the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals.
Officials of Cabela's in Nebraska have not commented, and attorney William Prugh of Kansas City, Mo., who represents the company in the tax appeal, said he wasn't authorized to speak for the company.
But in the notice of appeal submitted to the Board of Tax Appeals, Prugh argued that the online and catalog "tax assessments are invalid, null, void and unconstitutional, and should be set aside."
In the appeal notice, the company's attorneys say corporate affiliates of Cabela's don't have a "nexus, a place of business or a physical presence in Kansas, so, the affiliates are not liable for use taxes in the state of Kansas."
Attorneys for Cabela's maintain the company set up Internet and catalog divisions as separate entities without a physical presence in Kansas, despite the retail store.
Sen. David Haley (D-Kansas City) said the case's outcome had implications for taxpayers, especially those living in Wyandotte County where the Cabela's store is near the Kansas Speedway.
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