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NAVAL SHIPYARD— SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 197439® UJiLT, SSc SmMTat all sjmsmtMsmVallejo Gunman Killed By PoliceVallejo Police Officer Mike Sullivan holds a first aid Mt as Solano Ambulance attendants give emergency treatment to Joe Robia Collier, 51, who was Mounded Fatally Friday afternoon in. a confrontation with police In the 3G0 block of Cough]an St* Earlier, the dead youth had terrorized the Vallejo Heights residential area bv firing a shotgun several times from bis apart' meat ana from a car. — Thues-lierala Photo by Ray Rlaich.Oil In Mexico Believed To Be Double Alaska'sBy GEORGE WILSON (C) 1971. The Washington PostWASHINGTON — Mexico apparently has struck rich oil formations along the Gulf of Mexico.United Stares, could aelp break the grip of the oil cartelPresident Ford Is expected to discuss this urgent topic when he meets with Mexican President Luis EcheverriaOr* ahhfl’iuh fvtafp DpnflTijRpnrMan Balks At Orders To Give UpBy BUD KRESSIN andFRANCIS FLAHERTY Tlmes-Herald Staff WritersA Vallejo youth, armed with a shotgun which he bad earner used to terrorize a quiet Vallejo Heights neighborhood. was shot to death Friday afternoon In a confutation with Vallejo police.4To take my gun. yen'll have to kill me.” was 22-year-oid Joe Robaa Collier's defiant response to repeated police orders that he drop the weapon and surrender.The youth's final aei was io aim the gun pointblanfc: at two Vallejo officers. Sgi. Rudy Perefto and Patrolman John Lammoo who were advancing on Collier, guns in hand, as he walked toward them in the 300 block of Cough-lao StreetAs the shirsless gunman raised his weapon to fire. Perefto. aimed with a police .38, and Lamraoa with a shotgun, triggered their weapons and the youth, fell HKn±ally wounded.He was praaoiaaeed dead oa arrival at Broadway Hospital.Several witnesses to the shooting declared in later statements to police that Perecio and Lammon had no alternative'’ other than to use their weapons in self-defense.In the investigation that followed file shooting, police learned from acquaintances of Collier that he recently had been “shooting amphetamine and was absolutely berserk.”We learned that Thursday night ne forced a girl to stay in his apartment against her will.*’ reported Police Cap! Duane Nilsson, who led the in-v estigafjoa.••Also on Thursday night, he fired a blast at Michael Smith hut missed-*5 Nilsson said. Smith, purportedly aSee CONFRONTATION Page t
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Vallejo Times Herald
Vallejo, California, US
Sat, Oct 12, 1974
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