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Fugitive Latimer slain in Nashville McDonald’s gun battle
Arizona prison escapee Robert Latimer was killed as he tried to flee a Goodlettsville McDonald’s. FBI agent Ben Purser and a bystander were wounded. ballistics tests will show if a police officer fired the shot that hit them. Latimer had escaped from prison with Kenneth Lundien and had previously shot at FBI agents in Virginia.
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Nashville, Tenn
Arizona
FBI
Robert Vance Latimer
Virginia
Ben Purser
Latimer
Richard Pope
Goodlettsville
Verne Gauby
Nashville
Purser
Susan Wright
Chattanooga
Memorial Hospital
Marion Ayers
McDonald’s
Frank Shipley
Ms. Wright
Sherman Nickens
Metro
Kenneth J. Lundien
Virginia State
Florence
Ariz
Lundien
Springfield