The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1991 Page: 2 of 24
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, April 5, 1991
Police beat
SUNSPOTS
Juveniles lead
officersron chase
Some juveniles led police on
a chase through Laketeood Sub-
division early, Thursday,
according to a police report.
Police received a report on a
suspicious vehicle on Texas
Avenue. The car wasn’t found
there but Officer Bruce Buckley
spotted it in Lakewood. When
he tried to stop it, the vehicle
fled.
Buckley followed the car
through the subdivision until it
ran into a ditch on Honeysuckle.
A passenger got out and imme-
diately surrendered to Buckley
but .the driver ran away.
Other officers gave . chase
and, with direction from some
Lakewood residents, found the
suspect hiding in a backyard on
M'ayhaw iStreet.
.Two 14-year-old Baytown
boys were taken into custftdy
and the owner notified of the
car’s recovery. Though not
reported stolen, the car was
loaned to someone who .appa-
rently loaned it to another per-
son, police said. How it got into
the hands of the juveniles is not
s known.
CRIME SCENE ’
During the 24 hours between
Thursday and Friday mornings,
Baytown police handled 88
complaints and investigated
incidents that included four
traffic accidents, four burgla-
ries, four thefts, two auto thefts,
two criminal mjschief cases, one
robbery and one forgery.
TRAFFIC
Thursday traffic accidents in
Baytown included collisions on
West Main at Lee Drive, Decker
at Bramblccrcck and a three-car
collision at Market Street and
Lee Drive that left one person
with minor injuries.
THEFTS/BURGLARflvS
—A resident of the 300 block
of Scott Street called police
when she returned to her home
Wednesday and found the back
door wide open. No suspects
-were found, in the house but a
videocassette recorder was
missing. Loss is estimated at
$200.
--•Tools and a gas can were
reported missing after an auto
burglary at 2500 E. James Wed-
nesday night. Value of the sto-
len items was not reported.
—A student left her purse on ’
top of a car while waiting for a
bus near , 4601 Village Lane
Thursday and found it missing
later. Loss is estimated at about
$50. ■
AUTO THEFT
The owner of a blue and
white 1979 Ford F-150 Ranger
pickup truck with license plate
number •D4Q-GUN reported the
vehicle stolen while parked in
the 2100 block of Olive Wed-
nesday night. The truck is val-
ued at $3,000.
Band concert
Barbers Hill High School and
Middle School bands will have a
prc-Univcrsity lntcrscholastic
League concert at 3 p.m. April 7
in the high1' school auditorium.
Cycling group
Ba^ou Cycling Society will
meet at 2:26 p.m. April 7 at
Crosby . State Bank on Farm
Road 2100 for a ride through the
Crosby-Huffman and Dayton
. area. For more information, call
421 -2499.
. Computer class
Lee College Continuing Edu-,
cation Division is offering
“Wort! Processing: WordStar II”
for people whot have some fa-
miliarity with computers’ The
class will meet from 12:15-3:15
p.m.. on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days, April 9,25. Fee is $75. For
more information, call
425-6311.
RSS alumni
Any Ross S,. Sterling High
School alumni from the classes
of 1968-70 wanting to \vork on a
committee to help organize the
“25th Binhday Bash” to be held
on July 27 at the Knights of Col-
umbus Hall -should call
427-6010 or attend the next
meeting at 2:30 p.m. April* 7 at
4801 Gulfway. A mailout will
be composed.
I
Little league «
West Chambers County Little
League is having opening day
ceremonies for baseball season
at 9 a^m. April 6 at McLeod
Park, 10717 Langston Drive in
Mont Belvieu. Barbecue lunch
will be sold for $6, starting at 11
a.m. A bake sale will also be
held.
Six dead, 14 hurt in
Sacramento shootout.
U.S. Sen. John Heinz
killed in plane cr;
Part of roof collapses
LAKE JACKSON. (AP) —
Authorities say heavy rainfall
apparently caused a portion of a
roof to collapse at a discount re-
tail store here early Friday.
Two employees inside the
Service Merchandise store at
Lake Jackson Mall escaped un-
harmed when a 41-foot-by-
55-foot section of the .roof caved
in around 7:45 a.m., said Steve
Schultz, Lake Jackson assistant
fire chief.
The store was not yet opened
for business. ’«
“The roof collapsed in one
comer of the building,” Schultz
said. "It was toward the entrance
of the..store. We were concerned
that there would be other people
„ who would try to get into the
building. So we barricaded the
area.
“We had to turn away other
employees.”
Authorities also closed a sec-
tion of the mall until the rain
subsides.
MERION, Pa. {AP) — U.S.
Sen. John Heinz III, heir to the
Heinz food empire, died when
his small plane collided with a
helicopter in the air. Six other
people were killed, including
two schoolchildren hit by flam-
,ing debris.
The twin-engine plane carry-
ing Heinz, R-Pa., from a news
conference in Williamsport col-
lided with, a helicopter above
Merion Elementary School just
after noon Thursday. The plane,
had-sreported landing gear trou-
ble shortly before the collision.
Heinz, his plane’s two pilots,
the two helicopter pilots and two
elementary school students on
the ground were killed. A
shower of debris rained down on
the campus and the adjacent
neighborhood of old stone
houses and manicured lawns.
One child was hospitalized with
serious bums. Two other child-
ren and two school employees
suffered minor bums.
“The people of Pennsylvania
have lost a great leader and the
nation has lost a great senator,”
President Bush said in a state-
ment from California.
Susan Cotjgffiin,' vice chair-
woman of itherNational Trans-
portation Safety Board, arrived
on the scene Thursday and
spoke to reporters as firefighters
were plucking a red scarf and
other debris out of a tree.
“We will be conducting this
as a major accident investigation
with a full team on board,” she
said.
Heinz, 52, was the second-
ranking Republican on., the Se-
nate: Banking, Housing and Ur-
ban Affairs Committee and the
ranking GOP member of Bank-
ing’s securities subcommittee.
First elected to the U.S. Se-
nate in 1976, he was re-elected
in 1982 and 1988.
He was the largest individual
shareholder of #H.J. Heinz Co.,
the international-food company
founded in 1869*
.SAtRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
— Police charged into a store
where members of an Asian
youth gang held more than 30
hostages,, ending an 8/2 -hour
standoff with a 30-second shoot-
out that left six people dead and
14 wounded.
Three hostages and three of
the four gang members were
killed: in the burst of gunfire that
ensued after deputies blasted the
door off The Good Guys elec-
tronics store in a local shopping
mall, said Sheriff Glen Craig.
The gunmen, who held hos-
tages for 8'/a hours on Thurs-
day, had demanded safe passage
to Thailand.
One gunman “walked syste-
matically down the line shooting
hostages” as the officers opened
fire, Craig said. He was among
the three killed, he said.
Thirteen hostages and the
fourth gunman were wounded.
Craig said police decided to
rush the store at 10 p.m. after
the gunmen shot and wounded
two hostages, including one
whose shooting was broadcast
live by local television stations.
“We didn’t think we had the
luxury to wait any longer,” he
said. “We couldn’t sit here all
night arid let them shoot people
one at a time.”
The wounded were hospital-
ized early Friday. Their-names
and conditions were not imme-
diately available, but^ officers
said one hostage suffered critical
head wounds and that the sur-
viving gunman was in serious
condition.
It was not immediately known
how many people escaped un-
harmed, but authorities said 30
to 35 people were taken hostage,*,
and eight people were freed be-
fore the police raid. At least one
person was able to flee as the
gunmen entered the store.
“I’m very relieved to be out
of there,” said store employee
Matt Dennis,, 20.
The eight hostages who had.
been released earlier included a;
man, two women and five
children.
A ninth hostage, Scan McIn-
tyre of Sacramento, was shot in
the leg and allowed to hobble to
safety about an hour before the;
police raid. Television cameras;
videotaped the scene through fire-
glass storefront; the shooting!
was broadcast live.
About an hour after McIntyre
hobbled out of the store with a
list of demands from the gun- ■
Tncn, a second person was shot!
in the leg. . ;
Five minutes later, deputies!
fired a teoncussion grenade!
through the door and opened*
fire.
• The assault came amid a con-;
fusion of screams, gunfire and-
explosions, with hostages at-!
tempting to flee the shattered;
store and law enforcement offic-
ers on the attack.
The deputies were armed wjth
assault rifles and other weapons.
Authorities said the gang mem-
bers carried handguns and long-
barreled weapons. It wasn’t im-
mediately known if the weapons
Were semiautomatic.
STOCK QUOTES
(Courtesy of Paine Webber,
Jackson and Curtis)
(As of 9:15 a.m.)
AT&T..................... 34V.
Amoco.............. 52
Armco..'...........N...... 47.
Ashland................... 317.
Atlantic Rich ....!...____ 1267.
Beth. Steel................ 13
CG&E................ 327,.
Chevron .................. 767.
Dow Chem 507.
Dresser Ind..........247.
DSHRM ..;*...........(Delayed)
Du Pont............„...... 387.
Ethyl Corp...!............ 30
Exxon .................... 577,
Ford...................... 3.17<
General Electric ......____ 727.
General Motors.../..,...: 38
GTE..%................... 32'A *
G-R....................... 42'/!
Greyhound................ 327.
GSU........,............. 1.1 K
Halliburton............... 437,
Houston Industries........ 367.
Humana..;..;....... siy2
IBM..*................... fi4%
Kimberly Clartje.,r........ 887j
Kmart......TTri!.....____417,
Kroger..........'......,... 247,
Lubrizol.................. 557,
Lyondell Fetro. Chem .... 21.7,
Maxus Energy-Corp. ...... 87,
Mobil........647,
Monsanto,....-.-r.. 587*
Occidental Petro.......... 177,
Panhandle Eastern........ 147,
Phillips Petro............. 277,
Pin Wst .................. 117,
Quantum Chem. Corp. ... 157,
Royal Dutch.............. 787,
Schlumberger............. 577,
Seths..................... 35
Southern Go. .......... 287,
Sterling Chemical. ......... 57,
Sun Oil......... 327,
Tenneco ................... 437,
Texaco.................... 637.
Unilever ...........____ 887.
Upjohn................. 477.
USX Corp..............7. 317,
Walgreens................34
Wal-Mart.............. 417,
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From your, dedicated,
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dependable staff.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1991, newspaper, April 5, 1991; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1053115/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.