Word: okla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During a 13-hour siege in New Orleans last December, a mail handler shot his supervisor in the face, killing him, and wounded three other people. In Massachusetts in June 1988, a clerk killed a co-worker in the parking lot and later committed suicide. A postalworker in Edmund, Okla., went on the third deadliest killing spree in U.S. history in 1986, murdering 14 co-workers before killing himself...
Tawanah Jean Griggs, 17, was lying on the sofa in her mother's living room in Bartlesville, Okla., last May 1 when her cousin Neil Ennis walked in, carrying a 12-gauge pump shotgun. Ennis leveled the weapon at the girl. "Shall we put her out of her misery?" he asked a mutual friend standing there. The gun went , off, killing Griggs. Her photograph was featured on the cover of TIME's July 17 investigation into the deaths of the 464 people killed by guns in the U.S. during the week...
...jamboree last weekend in Love County, Okla., was merry but with a sober purpose: raising money for the defense of Sheriff Wesley Liddell Jr., 47, and his son-in-law, Marietta policeman Roger Ray Hilton, 27. The two are charged with scheming to kidnap a suspected north Texas drug dealer and torture him with an electric curling iron to elicit information...
Tawanah Jean Griggs, the young woman on the cover, was sitting on a sofa in her mother's home in Bartlesville, Okla., when her 20-year-old cousin fired a shotgun into her chest on May 1. At 17, she thus became one of hundreds of gun victims killed in the first week of May. They were shot accidentally or in an impulsive moment of anger, killed by friends, wives or husbands; they took their own lives or came to a violent end in a street quarrel or drug dispute. What they have in common is that they...
Somebody call up Norman, Okla. The Sooners just might have the collegiate sports concept all wrong...