Post-Standard, The (Newspaper) - February 24, 1997, Syracuse, New York CORINTHIANS IN SEARCH OF A FEW GOOD MEN MONDAY FEBRUARY GOOD MORNING THE 1997 The Herald Company The right meal can warm yoor winter Whether we eat in or out this time of year we want familiar dishes thing hot in a bowl that also warms our hands on a cold day We crave thick midwinter soups meals with hot breads and old-fashioned desserts straight from the oven See cny Page The Ultimate Guide to Elephants features Burnet Park's Filmmakers from Britain were impressed with the Syracuse easygoing nature lent training and shapely body See story Page See review Page Meet Celuck SU's gentle giant At Celuck will be the tallest player ever to play for Syracuse University See Sports Page Night watchman fired for rescuing bank's Nazi documents Night watchman Christophe Meih who saved bank documents from being shredded has been fired from the Union Bank of Switzerland vice director Christian Tschopp As a night watchman in a tion of trust Mr Meili didn't be- have as he should have done by revealing the confidential material Tschopp said It is an outrage It is said Sen Alfonse who has led the tional campaign against the Swiss wartime dealings with the Nazis For more on the case see Page Corrections Convictions for East cuse village Justice Francis Marcellus To discuss a correction call the executive editor at WINTER IS BACK expected lo drift south by late 22 Bus Comics cny Local Movies Television NO 124 96404 120911 35 CENTS Y Gunman on Empire State Building Kills Tourist Self Six are wounded as Sunday afternoon visitors flee in terror from the floor NEW YORK AP A gunman fired into a crowd of tourists on the observation deck of the Empire State Building Sunday ning killing one person and ing six before fatally shooting self in the head The gunman died without re- gaining consciousness more than five hours after the incident the mayor's press office said Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the gunman earned a passport that m- him as Ah Abu Kamal 69 a Palestinian from on west bank who entered the United Christmas Eve Witnesses said dozens of people many of them foreign tourists fled in panic toward stairways and elevators as the man sprayed bullets on the outdoor deck that surrounds a large windowed room on the floor Giuliani said the Terrorist Task Force of city police and FBI agents were involved in the investigation Police Commissioner Howard Safir said no agencies had received phone calls relating to the incident and there was no indication the shooter was doing anything but ing alone Giuliani said Abu Kamal had a re- indicating he bought the 380 A New York City police officer carries a baby from the Empire State Building after a a Palestinian gunman killed one visitor and wounded six The gunman then killed himself caliber Beretta semi-automatic tol in Florida a month ago The other dead man was be- heved to be a Danish musician visiting the Empire State Building with a friend from Con- who was wounded See WITNESSES next page Woman Dead Grandsons Wounded Police have no suspects in a Sunday morning shooting at a Shonnard Street apartment By JOHN GRAU And KENNETH TERRELL The Post Standard A woman died and two of her grandchildren were seriously wounded in a shooting Sunday on the city's near west side Virginia C Hackett 62 was found dead in her apartment at Shonnard Street when police arrived shortly past noon The grandsons John Paul Jones 16 and Eugene Jones 15 were in senous condition at sity Hospital Hackett's son Benjamin said his mother looked out for children in the neighborhood She was the kind of woman that anybody in the neighborhood could come into her house if it was dinner time and he said Our doors were always open She was just everybody's mom Virginia Hackett's husband John died on New Year's Day Benjamin Hackett said his mother was still wearing black The shooting happened just be- fore noon police said They learned of the shooting after Eugene Jones knocked on the door of the door neighbors and told them to call 911 said Syracuse Police CapL Richard P Walsh who is heading the investigation When police arrived they found Eugene Jones in the front yard where he had collapsed Inside the apartment they found Hackett and John Paul Jones who was scious Hackett was dead Police were able to briefly talk with Eugene Jones before he was taken to the hospital Walsh said The grandsons were living with Hackett but Walsh said he did not know how long they had been there Next to Boys and Girls Club The apartment is one of four in a building next door to the Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse where agara Street intersects Shonnard For the past week the club has been closed coinciding with winter Across the street is Seymour School Behind the DENNIS ment stand the brightly painted mural walls of Onondaga Commons where Rural Metro ambulance service is headquartered Neighbors including an ee of Rural Metro said they no- nothing unusual Sunday morning Nobody heard or saw a thing and we've been here since 6 o'clock this said an un- identified employee Sunday after- noon Walsh would not comment on a motive Late Sunday evening Walsh said there were no suspects Police issued a radio bulletin Sunday afternoon that they were searching for three men who might be headed for Rochester Walsh would not confirm that report Neighbors said little But one said the area was generally ful This block of Shonnard Street is usually resident Hammonds said Down around wego Street is where they have trouble once in awhile John Hackett was a volunteer for the police department substation on Tioga Street He also was a member of the James Geddes ant Organization A quiet A neighbor who declined to give her name said Virginia Hackett was a quiet woman She took care of kids all the time mostly her own family members She was a nice sweet lady When I'd walk past her place during the summer she always would be standing there waving at the neighbor said Benjamin Hackett said his er lived on Shonnard Street for about He was still stunned Sunday night It's going to be hard It's going to be hard he said All you can do is sit and pray she's gone Homicide Police are investigating a homicide that occurred on Shonnard Street before noon Sunday Above Deputy Police Chief Dennis DuVal center restrains the ter of Virginia C Hackett who was tally shot in her apartment at 131 Vz Shonnard Street Sunday Police sued a radio bulletin Sunday afternoon that they were searching for three men who might be headed for ter Syracuse Police Captain Richard P Walsh would not con- firm that report Syracuse Ne Scenic license plates are a police headache NEW YORK AP The ship's bold outline against the swirling smoke and foam adds dark artistic drama to the Flagship Niagara as it blasts the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in 1812 This is no oil painting however It's a license plate and that's the problem The cops hate says son Murray of Syosset as he admires the new Pennsylvania plate one of the latest in his tion Sure it's very pretty but they just can't read it The blur of specialty plates along the has become a er for some slater The plates feature creatures from pan- thers and manatees to Garfield the cat and sponsor causes from en- preservation lo pin bowling Murray who publishes an annual guide to American license plates says he gets frequent calls for help from patrol officers They have a witness who saw a car with red tellers but there were birds and fields and Some states are already stepping in to slow the creative flow New York Gov George vetoed four proposals for new plates last year he wanted to stop the annual deluge Thai still leaves the state with about 180 varieties from sports teams to bluebirds the state bird to al plates featuring Adirondack lakes the Hudson River and Manhattan's The first cloned adult animal Dolly was born in July in Scotland Nine cloned lambs have been born World gets its first look at clone Researchers for the first time have cloned an adult mammal a controversial feat that could presage the ability to clone human The ement long thought to be impossible accomplished with sheep The Scottish sav their godl nol to clone humans but to large herds of specialty farm ammaK ing some thai produce human medicines and others lhat contain humanized organs suitable for transplants Semce
