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COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 95 NO. 74 -“-T-7~Un
_———————========================== December 6, 1995
Two-face shows his gang signs at the Lincoln Attention Center. Two-face, 17, is a member of a Hoover Crip gang.
Two-face claims he
would kill anyone in a
moment’s notice — a
mother, a child or who
ever stepped in his path.
But the 17-year-old Crip gang
ster still prays to earn a spot in
heaven.
“1 ain ’ t scared of dying, my on ly
worry is going to hell,” said Two
face, who works hard to portray his
image of a hard-core, ruthless gang
member.
Two-face earned the nickname
because of his dual personality.
Around his grandmother, he said,
he is a respectful young man. But
with his homeboys, he claims he is
like a devil.
“One side of me is myself. The
other side of me ain’t nothing but a
monster.”
For now, Two-face is in the Lin
coln Attention Center. A drug deal
gone bad sent him to the city’s only
juvenile jail Oct. 21 — his 11th
visit since 1991. This time, he faces
charges of strong arm robbery, false
imprisonment and assault.
The teen-ager is a member of
Lincoln’s rising gang population.
He claims he has seen mote vio
lence in his life than some war vet
erans. Yet his fuzzy attempt at grow
ing a goatee shows his youthful
ness.
Because Two-face is a juvenile,
his real name cannot be published.
In a two-hour interview with the
Daily Nebraskan, Two-face detailed
his 1 i fe on the streets as a member of
a Hoover Crip gang.
In 1990, he moved to Lincoln
from Stockton, Calif., with his
mother, sister and younger brother.
The streets of the bay city were too
dangerous for a young teen-ager
who had been initiated into a gang
by age 9.
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Street Gangs
In the second part of a three-day
series, the Daily Nebraskan contin
ues its look at Lincoln's growing gang
dilemma. During the 1980s and 1990s,
cities across the country wrestled with
increasing gang violence.
In 1994, police first acknowledged
that Lincoln had a growing number of
gangsters. Will Nebraska’s Capital
City become a gang-infested city?
The Daily Nebraskan investigates.
Story by:
Jeff Zeleny
Photos by:
Jeff Haller
Schlondorf s sister, father give testimony
By iea layior
Staff Reporter
> For 17 months, Gerald Schlondorf
was obsessed with retrieving a gun
seized by UNL police, his sister testi
fied Tuesday.
Schlondorf s sister, Sue Ann
Ahmann, took the stand Tuesday af
ternoon in the sixth day of her brother ’ s
second-degree attempted murder trial.
The same .45-caliber semiauto
matic rifle used in the Sept. 12,1994,
shooting of UNL police officer Rob
ert Soflin was seized from
Schlondorf s Neihardt Residence Hall
room aner a iauea suiciae attempt in
April 1993.
Ahmann, 27, said her family was
present at the hospital on the night of
her brother’s attempted suicide. How
ever, she said, her brother wanted to
talk to her alone.
She recalled him say ing, “They took
my gun; I had a gun in my room.”
She told the jury the first thing her
brother wanted to do after leaving the
hospital a few days later was to stop by
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
police station to retrieve the gun.
“We were there for hours,” she
said.
“They aren ’t going to give it back,”
she remembered him saying.
After that, Ahmann said, her brother
would call to keep her updated on the
status of the gun.
“He had hired a lawyer—he was
going to sue the university to get it
back,” she said. “He was obsessed
with getting it back.”
Schlondorf told his sister that he
believed UNL police illegally seized
the gun and it had become a matter of
principle to him.
“He tried to get me to get it for him.
Now I wish I would have.”
Then, in July 1994, Schlondorf
called his sister to tell her that he
would finally get to go to court over
the gun.
“I just thought, 'Jerry, this is so
stupid,’” she said.
The lawsuit was dropped, and UNL
police returned the gun to Schlondorf.
“He was on top of the world,” she
said. “I said maybe he should give it to
me.”
But Ahmann did not talk to her
brother again until the day after the
alleged shooting.
It was a day of testimony profiling
the Schlondorf family. Earlier, the jury
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Phillips’
sentence:
probation
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
Nebraska I-back Lawrence Phillips
was sentenced Tuesday to one year
probation for assaulting his former
girlfriend.
The sentencing by Lancaster
County Judge Jack Lindner brought at
least a momentary close to the slew of
off-field publicity this case has brought
to Phillips and the No. 1 Comhuskers.
Phillips was ordered to pay restitu
tion and attend do
mestic violence
counseling. The
restitution includes
$247.84 in medical
expenses to Kate
McEwen, the as
sault victim, and
$110.80 to
Meadow Wood
— i Apartments lor
Phillips damaging mail
boxes.
During the brief court hearing,
Phillips answered the judge’s ques
tions but declined to speak on his own
behalf. Teammate Clinton Childs sat
beside Phillips as he waited for sen
tencing.
Phillips changed his innocent plea
to no contest and was found guilty of
trespassing and third-degree misde
meanor assault in the Sept. 10 attack
on McEwen, a junior on the women’s
basketball team. Hours after his ar
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Senate
makes 2
changes
By Paula Lavigne
t>emor Heponer
Amid controversy and confusion,
the Academic Senate passed two of
four amendments proposed to the UNL
Student Code of Conduct Tuesday.
The amendments must go to the
vice chancellor for student affairs and
be approved by the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska
and the NU Board of Regents before
they are enacted.
Vague wording, lack of definition
and legal terms have bound the senate
in a debate quagmire for about three
months.
The approved amendments, which
were originally proposed by the Fac
ulty Women’s Caucus in October,
state:
• A student who commits a violent
felony or misdemeanor on or off cam
pus that negatively affects the univer
sity will be subject to disciplinary
procedures and sanctions.
•A student who is convicted of a
violent felony or misdemeanor will be
immediately suspended from partici
pation in any UNL-sponsored inter
collegiate events and any role in which
he or she officially represents the uni
versity.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Judicial Board would determine
the extent of the suspension.
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