Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - May 4, 2007, Lubbock, Texas LUBBOCK United Supermarkets Dishing Out the Info New weekly feature gives readers the scoop on some local First up Around Town The Internet Buzz In his weekly interim online editor takes the mystery out B1 FRIDAY MAY 2007 50 City police feel sting of TASER suit Third legal claim since 06 targets stun gun use BY MARLENA HARTZ Criminals arent the ones being jolted by TASER stun The Lubbock Police Depart ment in its third lawsuit since 2006 regarding alleged misuse of the which delivers an electric Bacilio Martinez of Lubbock is accusing the police depart ment and three of its officers of using ex Lubbock story first appeared on our Web site at force while arrest ing him in April He claims his tional rights were violated when police officers shocked him with a TASER and refused to give him access to medical treatment April Thats the same day Lubbock resident Juan Nunez III died after a Lubbock police officer shocked him four times with a Martinez said officers Jamison Ward and Jonathan Tutino tack led and handcuffed him on and officer Kody Nesbitt repeatedly TASERed him while he was He was There is no reason to tase someone repeatedly when they Martinezs Mat thew The Lubbock Police Depart ment and the officers deny Martinezs allegations of mis According to court Nesbitt said his actions during the arrest were necessary to prevent who was ar rested for domestic from harming family Martinez was treated at University Medical Center for SEE PAGE A4 SONY PICTURES Eagerly awaited film sequel SpiderMan starring Tobey Maguire in the title opens indoor theaters will use 12 prints of the film to offer 51 daily Buzz builds toward giant opening for blockbuster sequel BY KERNS which opens nationwide is expected to break the box of flee record for most In Sony its is all but stacking the deck just to make sure that It will not even need repetitive sellouts in all mar kets to pull it Interest in the film is extreme ly high in according to everyone from theater manag ers to comic store proprietors to Hollywood And yet by early afternoon none of the screenings at Tinseltown 17 and Movies 16 had reached sellout status In the movie fans stood in lines that circled theaters to be the first admitted to see STAC GRAY V at Randy buys tickets in advance for todays opening of Spi derMan Interest in the film is extremely high in blockbuster movies or first in line to buy They did not want to risk having to wait an extra That challenge no longer ex at least not in the case of SpiderMan which in Lub bock will be shown a minimum of 51 times daily during opening That doesnt even include the prints at the Stars Stripes and Movies 16 and Tinseltown 17 each have six separate prints of SpiderMan Theater managers PAGE A4 crash kills two teens Accident near Morton leaves one hospitalized BY ROBIN BRISCOE Two teens were killed and another seriously injured when the truck in which they were riding plowed into a tree Thursday morning near Reuben a Texas Army National Guard reservist from and tine Johnson of Morton were pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 8 Texas Department of Public Safety John Gonzales of Am herst was airlifted to Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock with severe head Gonzales Cleveland was in serious but stable condition Thursday a hospital official Finch was driving a 1998 Ford pickup east on FM 597 at the Cochran and Hockley County line when he drove into a large Investigators believe that Finch may have veered off the roadway to avoid a dead animal when he and sent the pickup on a side skid across the Lubbock off story first on our Web site at Everybodys trying to make sense of Fredda Schooler Morton ISO superintendent according to DPS The drivers side of the pickup then slammed into the All three teens were not wearing their seat according to Authorities do not know exactly when the wreck occurred on the isolated but it was re ported shortly before 8 They were on their way to Pep Mor ton Independent School District Superintendent Fredda Schooler whose family is well known in the school attended school at Pep Alternative High east of Schooler Johnsons brother and sister were at Morton High School listening to a Shattered Dreams presenta tion when they were pulled aside for the SEE PAGE A4 Whitesides Andrews nabs educator honor BY TRACY SIMMONS Cindy Andrews of Whiteside Elementary School was recently selected as the Assistant Principal of the Year for Region The award recognizes out standing school administrators for their educational leader ship and dedication to chil according to the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Thats shes very de Lubbock Elementary Principals Association Board President Shana Underwood said when she heard the Shes just a very hard work Shes highly creative and is Just extremely she She always SEE PAGE A4 Lubbock This story first appeared on our Web site at Lights actor to graduate from Tech ISD BY TRACY SIMMONS Jesse Plemons is graduating high school but you might know him better as Landry Clarke from the television show Friday Night Since the late Plemons has appeared Lubbock in various TV shows and mov TWs naturally he had some at T PROVIDED BY NBC UNIVERSAL Andrews Jesse TV actor from Friday Night will be graduating on Sun day from Texas Tech University dent School District He said hed travel for auditions months at a time and would send bis schoolwork back and forth to his That was all he My school was really but as I got older it got So as a now turned to the Texas Tech University Independent T PROVIDED UNIVERSAL Makeup artists apply a mask to actor Jesse Plemons for an appear ance on the television show Greys School It worked out It was absolutely perfect for my situa he I know I got a bet ter education than I would have had I gone to a public Hes appeared in CSI Crime Scene Walker SEE PAGE A4 T T ON THE WEB Annies Town As YOU the Lord to help YOU 990 YOUr gg clearly 38 he 8608 Jerry WEATHER 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