University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 10, 1989
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Two killed in drive-by shooting
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A drive-by barrage of 40 guns shot left two people dead and nine injured Saturday in a activity, drug-dealing and violence.
The victims, ranging in age from 14 to 20, had no known gang affiliations, a police Chief Frank Jordan during a news conference at the Hall of Justice.
Jordan and Mayor Art Agnos appealed for public support in maintaining peace in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood and asked for information that could helpInvestigate many as four young male suspects.
Jordan identified the dead as Roshawn Johnson, 20, who was shot dead on the street, and Charles Hughes, 18, who died after he was taken to Mission Emergency Hospital.
hospital late Saturday, including one man in serious but stable condition, a nursing supervisor said. The other were listed in satisfactory condition.
The gunfire erupted at 12:45 a.m. Saturday. A gathering of about 200 people that had been sponsored by local church groups had broken up about a mile away shortly before the shooting, police said.
On March 23, police guarded the funeral of Sunnydale gang member
Peter Lee, 19, fearing an outbreak of violence between Sunnydale members and rivals.
Authorities said the assailants appeared to have chosen their victims at random.
"They just said, 'Sunnydale,' and they just opened fire," said a young man who suffered a shotgun pellet wound to his right wrist and was San Francisco Examiner he was a member of the Oakdale Mob gang.
News Briefs
The official news agency, Tass, said the design of the warheads "completely rules out radiation threat during large-depth submergence. To ensure radiation safety, the nuclear-powered engine was stopped and the power unit was effectively blanked off."
SBOVET SUBMARINE EXPLODES: The Soviet Union said yesterday that 42 sailors were killed when a nuclear-powered submarine caught fire and exploded in the Norwegian Sea. Two torpedoes on board were armed with nuclear warheads.
Tass said the submarine carried 69 men and only 27 of them survived.
The vessel went down in international waters 120 miles southwest of Norway's Bear Island.
Norway's northern coast
Scientists were gathering deep-water samples yesterday, and they placed equipment near the sunken ship that would monitor radiation levels for years.
The Soviets officially informed Norway of the accident nearly nine hours after the vessel went down. The Norwegian news agency NTB said the authorities could have reached the ship several hours earlier than Soviet fishing vessels if the Soviets had asked for help.
SPILL CLEAN-UP CONTINUES; Military jets flew skimmers, booms, and beach land craft into Alaska yesterday as commanders issued a Pacific-wide call for more equipment to fight
the nation's worst oil spill.
Montana explosion hurts 31;1 missing
Kodiak, the nation's richest fishing port, prepared for the onslaught of oil by putting out the Coast Guard said the leading edge of the spill and began breaking up into tar balls and sinking.
The tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef March 24, spilling 10.1 million gallons of oil into the Sound. The oil has spread into the Gulf of Alaska and cooled some of the many islands in the region.
Yesterday, a 40-foot gray whale was found dead in an oil-fouled area. Wildlife experts said they hadn't determined whether it was the first or second whale that has already killed thousands of other animals.
The Associated Press
BILLINGS. Mont. — An explosion apparently caused by natural gas ripped a 40-foot section from a motel yesterday, injuring 31 people, and searched cautiously through the ruile for one man believed missing.
The blast occurred four minutes after someone phoned Montana-Dakota Utilities at 1:07 a.m. and reported a strong smell of natural gas in the buildings. Billings fire chief, Firefighters controlled the blaze by 4 a.m.
Blee said that a truck belonging to an unidentified man was in the parking lot of the three-story Super 8 Motel. Among about 60 people registered, all others were accounted for, officials said.
Two people were hospitalized and 29 others were treated and released at the city's two major hospitals, authorities said.
Authorities expressed relief after learning that neither hospitalized person was critically injured and another more than one person was missing.
one dead in this," said Fire Department Capt. Marvin Jochems.
"The center of the building is gone, and there's fire damage both ways," said Charlie Allen, acting battalion chief.
White smoke continued billowing as firefighters picked through the rubble with the help of excavation equipment.
"It'll be a miracle if we have only
"We couldn't get up脛s, but there were people jumping out of windows when they heard theexploiler said Jan Hardy, motel night clerk
"I thought somebody was trying to break in the room," said one guest, William Kartsonis of Denver.
Nearly all guests in the motel in this south central Montana city of 75,000 spent the rest of the night in the motel on the other side of Interstate 90.
Super 8 officials would have no comment until the motel's owners arrived from Aberdeen, S.D., a spokesman said.
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