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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1970
Page
11
Fragmented OCR notes describe rising violence, police targets, and community concern. Mentions shootings, riots, and ghosted names amid a chaotic regional scene with references to locations and numbers.
Walter Morris was found guilty of the 4 gas station killings in Sherman on December 23. The jury of 12 deliberated an hour before a one death sentence was imposed by Judge Pasid Wo Brown as Arnold and station attendant Omar Chambers were killed during the holdup. Morris also faces a murder charge in Chambers death.
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