By The
Associated Press
Edited by Michelle Gamer
Friday, March 1, 1996
Page 2
Pregnant student killed in bus shooting
ST. LOUIS—A teen-ager wait
ing at a school bus stop with a pistol
began firing after the bus doors
swung open Thursday, killing a
pregnant 15-year-old and wound
ing the driver before running away.
The baby was in critical condition.
Dozens of police officers
searched the city’s north side for
the gunman, who was believed to
be 16 to 18. Police were unsure of
a motive.
Police were also uncertain
whether Kyunia Taylor, who was
sitting in the first seat inside the
door on her way to school, had been
targeted or was shot at random.
The shooting took place shortly
before 7 a.m. when the small bus
carrying the driver and three stu
dents pulled up to its regular stop.
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When the door opened, the gunman
stepped inside and asked if the bus
was going to Beaumont High
School. The driver said yes.
“It was very swifl,” Police Chief
Ron Henderson said Thursday
evening. “He walked up the steps
and shot the driver, and then he shot
the young lady.”
The gunman looked at the other
two girls, but didn’t try to harm
them, Henderson said. They were
helpingpolice with a description of
the suspect.
The 60-year-old bus driver, Ri
chard Lanemann, was in serious
condition with three gunshot
wounds.
Two bullets struck Taylor, a
ninth-grader, in the chest. She was
dead on arrival at the hospital. *
Doctors delivered her baby by
Caesarean section. The 3-pound girl
appeared to be one to three months
premature.
“The fact that the mom had been
dead for a period of time meant that
although the baby ’s heart may have
continued to beat, there was no oxy
gen going to the baby or to the
baby’s brain,” said Dr. Timothy
Buchman, head of the team of doc
tors that delivered the baby. “The
baby’s outcome is in doubt.” „
At the school, halls were mostly
vacant Thursday morning. A cry
ing girl was escorted to an office by
two adults. Security was already
tight — all students must pass
through a metal detector each day
— but it appeared that movement
was also being restricted.
Principal Floyd Crues an
nounced Taylor’s death over the
public address system. “At the mo
ment we have our counseling crisis
management staff in place to deal
with the students and staff,” Crues
said.
Taylor entered school there in
September. Few people knew she
was pregnant, Crues said.
Freshman Rhonda Palmer said
Taylor was the third student from
Beaumont killed this year.
“It’s sad,” she said. “Too many of
us are being killed.”
The shooting happened in a high
crime area. Many of the brick two
and four-family apartment houses
have iron bars over the windows.
Militant Islamic group says it will
halt attacks in Israel for one week
JERUSALEM — The militant Is
lamic group Hamas said Thursday it
will stop attacks against Israel for one
week, but demanded that Israel release
Palestinian prisoners and halt its of
fensive against members of Hamas’
military wing.
The statement was released to The
Associated Press by a Hamas source.
It said Israel had until the evening
of March 8 to respond to the demands,
and if it did not, “it will be considered
that Israel is violating the agreement.”
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Aliza Goren, an adviser to Prime
Minister Shimon Peres, said the prime
minister’s office had no comment on
the demands. But Israel is highly un
likely to consider negotiating with the
group it has vowed to destroy.
Hamas has claimed responsibility
for two suicide bomb attacks that killed
25 people, including two Americans,
in Israel on Sunday.
Hamas opposes the Israel-Palestin
ian peace agreement under which much
territory once occupied by Israeli
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troops now is under the authority of
the Palestinian self-rule government
led by Arafat.
Since Palestinian autonomy was
first established two years ago, Arafat
has avoided an all-out confrontation
with militants in hopes of eventually
drawing them into his administration.
But following the bombings, Peres
has demanded that Arafat disarm and
arrest Islamic extremists. Peres has
warned he might delay Israel’s planned
March pullout from Hebron unless
Arafat complies.
Cubans insist
they will suffer
undersanctions
HAVANA—Cuba warned Thurs
day it won’t permit anyone to enter its
waters to honor four exile pilots it shot
down last weekend, and said new U.S.
sanctions would have “severe” conse
quences for bilateral relations.
Cuban citizens, meanwhile, reacted
with resignation or indi fference to news
that Washington would tighten its eco
nomic embargo.
“This is going to strengthen the
government” by rallying people be
hind it, said Ramon Torres, a park
worker. “The government here is fight
ing for everyone.”
“They are fencing us in,” said
Miguel Rodriguez, who was selling
carved wooden statues from an um
brella stand at a seaside market.
The sanctions that were agreed upon
Wednesday are designed primarily to
punish foreign investors using Ameri
can assets confiscated by Cuba and to
force President Fidel Castro from
power.
Few Cubans, however, said they
believed that would happen. Instead,
some said, they would be the ones who
would suffer.
“We are Cubans here. I’m not talk
ing about communism or capitalism,”
Rodriguez said. “I’m here fighting to
make a living. We have an economic
opening now, but... “
Cuba’s communist government has
allowed vendors such as Rodriguez to
run their own stands at the market for
four years now under an economic
liberalization policy. SomeCubansare
allowed to run their own businesses
and to conduct them in U.S. dollars.
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