THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007
NEWS
>>KANSAS CITY SHOOTING
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Police shoot, kill rifleman at mall
Kathy Cagg, center left, accompanied by her pastor, Tim Pusey, left, and unidentified family members, addresses the media in Kansas City, Mo., Monday. Cagg is a sibling of suspected gunman David W. Logsdon, who was shot by police Sunday after he allegedly killed his neighbor, then shot and killed two people at a nearby mall.
Dick Whiople/ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The chaos began with police finding a woman dead and her car missing.
It ended when officers fatally shot the man driving the car — but only after he fired on a police officer and later people at a shopping center, killing two of them.
Police spokesman Tony Sanders said the authorities were reviewing security footage and interviewing hundreds of witnesses to the shooting Sunday outside a Target store inside Ward Parkway Center, trying to make sense of the four deaths.
Target employee Cassie Bradshaw, 19, was in a break room with two other people when they first heard shots. Then, her coworkers saw a man in his 50s with a rifle "shooting everywhere," she said.
"It sounded like maybe fire-crackers at first but then they got louder and louder and louder, and it sounded like someone shooting a mun." she said.
gun," she said.
David W.
Logsdon was shot and killed by police after he reportedly killed his neighbor, then shot and killed two people Sunday.
Logsdon
A woman who identified herself as the slain woman's stepdaughter said the shooter was a longtime neighbor who had worked as a security guard at the Target store. Police could not immediately confirm those details.
Police found the woman's body Sunday afternoon after they went to a home because relatives had not seen her for days. Her car was spotted later in the day at a gas station by an officer, who pulled the driver over and was shot in the
arm, police said.
The officer, whose wound was not life-threatening, returned fire and shattered the window of the gunman's car.
The car took off and reports began arriving about 10 to 15
minutes later of shots fired at the shopping center. The man pulled into a parking space and fired at the cars on either side of him, killing two people, authorities said. He fired more shots, wound-
mall when the officers ran inside," Sanders said. "They confronted the man and after confronting him, shot and killed him."
Police did not say how the woman died, or if the gunman was a suspect in her death. But they
"It sounded like maybe firecrackers at first but then they got louder and louder and louder."
ing at least two people, then went inside the mall, Sanders said. "Everybody was leaving the
did say they believed the events were connected.
CASSIE BRADSHAW Target employee
On Monday, police identified the woman found dead in her home as Patricia Reed, 67.
center were Leslie N, Ballew, 33, of Kansas City, and Luke A. Nilges, 30, of Shawnee, Kan.
The victims shot to death at the shopping
The gunman was not immediately named, but Patricia Reed's stepdaughter, Pam Reed, described him as her stepmother's neighbor.
Police had cordoned off a home near where the elder Reed lived, and a phone listing for the gunman matched that address.
A bomb squad was called to the home early Monday after a police officer looked into a window of the home and saw a suspicious device, Sanders said.
The Target store was closed Monday. Company representatives did not immediately return a message seeking comment left at Target headquarters in Minneapolis.
The mall, one of the city's busiest shopping centers, was shut down and officers went through each store to see if anyone else might have been involved, Sanders said.
》 COMMUNITY ACTIVISM
Residents resist toxic waste plants Nerve agent waste causes outcry
BY MONICA RHOR ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — At the Carver Terrace housing projects, only a chain-link fence and a cluster of no-treespassing signs separate brightly painted jungle gyms from the Motiva oil refinery.
On warm days, the playground is filled with children playing in the shadow of the towers and pipes that spew smoke and spread a sulfurous, rotten-egg smell over this mostly poor, mostly black city of 60,000 along the Louisiana state line.
For decades, Port Arthur residents have lived with the refineries and chemical plants that ring their neighborhoods and loom over their backyards. And they have tolerated the cancer, asthma, and liver and kidney disease
Kelley has been holding rallies and meetings to protest the incineration, drawing about 100 people to one recent meeting. And one mother started a petition drive to halt the project. But so far, there is little reason to believe they will accomplish anything.
Jefferson County, where Port Arthur is located, is home to one of the country's biggest chemicalindustrial complexes and has been ranked in the top 10 percent of America's dirtiest counties by the Environmental Defense Fund.
"It's disgusting to know people are turning their backs on little children and old people and letting them stew in toxic waste."
Port Arthur is encircled by major
that some blame on the pollution.
but some blame on the producer.
But when a company won a $49 million contract to incinerate chemical waste from the destruction of the deadly nerve agent VX, Hilton Kelley and others said enough was enough.
HILTON KELLEY Community activist
"It's disgusting to know that all across America, when you mention Port Arthur, Texas, that it's considered the toxic dump site of North America. It is disgusting to know people are turning their backs on little children and old people and letting them stew in toxic waste," said Kelley, 46, a community activist. "It's not right, and I am not going to stand by and let anyone come and dump toxic waste in my community."
refineries and chemical plants run by such companies as Motiva, Chevron Phillips, Valero and BASF, and their properties abut the backyards and playgrounds of the city's poor and historically black west end.
The battle began in April when Veolia Environmental Services of Lombard, Ill., announced a contract with the Army to incinerate 1.8 million gallons of VX hydrolysate over the next three years. New Jersey and Ohio fought off plans to incinerate the waste there.
VX hydrolysate is caustic waste water created when VX is destroyed by mixing it with sodium hydroxide and water. The Army is destroying its entire supply of the Cold War-era nerve agent, which can kill with a single drop, at a chemical depot in Indiana. The waste water will be shipped in 4,000-gallon containers across eight states and nearly 1,000 miles to the Veolia plant.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS COUNCIL
Google
Come listen to Google's Senior International Marketing Manager, Katchen Gerig, talk about the future of e-marketing and her professional success. Friday, May 11th at 11am Place: Summerfield RM.428 Sponsored by the GBC and UBC
KU ROTARACT
KU Rotaract is a new club on campus interested in personal and community development through community service! This club gives you an opportunity to get involved in the KU and communities as well as network with those who are part of the International Rotaract organization.
If you are interested or would like more information, please e-mail KUotracjct@gmail.com
KU YOUNG DEMOCRATS End of the Year Meeting
Student Tickets will be $5 at the event!
COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Salon Nouveau:
Promiscuous Girls and other topics in modern music
At the Hawk's Nest
(1st Floor KS Union)
8pm to 10pm,
Tuesday May 1st
A CCO Music Mentors Fundraiser Presented by KK $ \Psi $ & TB $ \Sigma $
Join the Commission on the Status of Women for music videos, coffee, discussion, and more!
Free concessions sponsored by Coca-Cola
Friday, May 4 2007
Kansas Union Ballroom
On the campus of
The University of Kansas
6:00pm-10:00pm
$3 with student ID
$5 without ID
tickets available at the door
doors open at 1:55pm
reserve tickets at
oreadmusicfest@hotmail.com
May 1st,2007
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Pre-Cinco de Mayo Party at LIQUID Wednesday, May 2 10:30 p.m. Pinata & Latin dancing contest
Because everyone has the potential to be sexual...
QUEERS & ALLIES
Three Performances:
May 4th and 5th, 7:30 p.m.
& May 6th at 3:00pm
Alderson Auditorium
If you liked
If you liked The Vagina Montologues, you'll like Q. An evening of theatre that explores the
A Queers and Allies & Amnesty International production
The Vagina Monologues, you'll like Q. An evening of theatre that explores the various angles and issues regarding the gay and transgender community. The evening of theatre will consist of various theatrical pieces written by renowned playwrights and compelling original work by KU Students. Q is brought to you by the same Director of the 2007 Vagina Monologues Production. All performances will be held in Alderson Auditorium, in the Kansas Union and are FREE to the public.
are FREE to the public.
Donations will be kindly accepted.
The Dole is pleased to present...
The Dole is pleased to present...
The 2007 Dole Lecture
General Richard B. Myers Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:30 p.m. at the Institute
Professors please invite your students!
2580 Pesafish Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045-
7853.664.4900
"Free and open to the public, but tickets are required, available at the Institute*"
ROBERT J. DOLE
INSTITUTE OF POPULITY
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