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Pennsylvania Avenue rifleman Francisco Duran raises new questions about keeping the President safe
...never was the stately facade of the White House nicked by slugs fired in anger until Oct. 29, when the brooding Colorado Springs upholsterer Francisco Martin Duran, 26, pulled a Chinese-made SKS semiautomatic assault weapon from under his coat and shot 27 rounds of ammunition in short bursts across the north side of the building. Five bullets pocked the mansion's 4-ft.-thick sandstone wall, and three shattered a window and chipped the stone of the press-briefing room near the West Wing. Several bullets burrowed into trees. President Clinton, who was inside the White House watching...
...prosecutors were considering charging Duran with attempted assassination, based on notes and other material found in his nearby pickup truck and threatening remarks he allegedly made to a co-worker at Colorado Springs' Broadmoor hotel. And the old question of how to assure a President's safety rose again...
...press briefing room. Bill Clinton, just back from a trip to the Middle East, was in the White House at the time watching football, and was unharmed. Onlookers subdued the gunman before Secret Service agents took him into custody. Early Saturday evening authorities identified the suspect as Francisco Martin Duran, 26, of Colorado; no motive was provided...
...Ingrid Duran, the wife of accused gunman Francisco Robert Duran , says her husband had problems with the U.S. government but never would have tried to kill President Clinton. "To take another life is against his principles," she told The Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph in an interview published today. Duran, who's being held without bail on charges of firing 27 bullets at the White House Saturday, may soon be charged with plotting assassination, based on statements from a former co-worker and papers found in his truck. His lawyer, public defender Leigh Kenny, said today that Duran "had ample opportunity...