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MORE ON CONFRONTATION\rFrom PAGE ONEtriend of Collier, was forced to drive Collier Friday afternoon while the youth fired his shotgun at random as they drove along the streets in Vallejo Heights, the police captain added.Nilsson said investigators also turned up the information that Collier once again shot at Smith — Friday afternoon in the apartment house parking lot.A police officer who was called Friday morning to investigate Collier's complaint that a stereo tape deck had been stolen from his apartment noted in his report that the youth was incoherent and gave the impression he ‘•was high on something.”Later in the day, he again called the police station to report his car had been stolen, but this report was handled by telephone.And still later, a witness told police, he had seen Collier and another man arguing in the apartment parking lot. This apparently was when Collier shotbalcony of an apartment at 340 CarterSt.Others told of a man firing a gun from a car that was driven bv anothervperson. They did not specify the street.In the aftermath of the shooting, police checked Collier's apartment and found a wall had been blasted withshotgun pellets and window had been knocked out of their possibly with a chair.louversframes,Officer George Bawart, one of the first to arrive on the scene, spotted Collier on the balcony. The youth also saw Bawart. raised his gun to his shoulder and pointed it at the officer.Anyone who comes up here will b iilled.” he warned.Bv that time, several other pouee *units had arrived and as they were .surrounding the apartment. Collar leaped over the balcony railing and dropped into the shrubbery, then fled down Coughlan Street, clutching his gun as he ran.When he came within 10 feet oi Peretto and Lammon. he stopped and drew his gun to his shoulder, as it unmindful that he would be killed.An autopsy showed that either oi the wounds Collier suffered could have been fatal — the pistol slug that struckhim in the neck and the shotgun blastthat hit his midsection.The bod\ was taken to the Coolev» *and Riolo Mortuary.* *
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Vallejo Times Herald
Vallejo, California, US
Sat, Oct 12, 1974
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