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...gunman who killed two people and wounded two others during a shooting spree in downtown Chapel Hill, N.C., yesterday, has been identified as Wendell Williamson, a University of North Carolina law student. Williamson's parents have said that their son was recently treated for mental illness, while fellow law students described their classmate as a disturbed man who talked to himself and had public outbursts...
...plausible. After all, he had been on parole in Texas since 1983 after serving part of a 25- to 50-year sentence for participating in the murder of a mentally retarded man in Illinois in 1973. Immediately after Urdiales' murder, he had gone on a six- month robbery spree. However, he recanted the confession at his 1987 murder trial, saying that his sister had pulled the trigger. Still, the state used his confession as the centerpiece of the case against him. A jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death...
...final toll in the two-day shooting spree was two dead and five wounded. Were it not for security guard Richard Seron's quick reflexes, the casualties could have been much higher: Salvi's abandoned satchel also contained a second gun and 700 rounds of ammunition...
...claimed responsibility for the hijacking, avenged its "martyrs" by murdering four Roman Catholic priests -- three French and one Belgian -- in the Algerian city of Tizi-Ouzou. The deaths brought to 76 the number of foreigners killed in Algeria, including 26 French nationals, since the G.I.A. began its antiforeign assassination spree in September...
...Boston to stand trial. Until now, he has been held in Virginia where he faces less serious charges of firing at an abortion clinic the day after the Massachusetts slayings; no one was hit in the Virginia incident. FBI investigators also are probing whether Salvi's alleged shooting spree was part of a larger conspiracy against abortion clinics. Salvi is expected to be arraigned in Boston tomorrow...