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Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daly Nebraskan by caing (402)472-2588. Subscriptions are $55 tor one year. Postmaster Send address changes to the Daly Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., ^^“!SZ^poeB8epa“ ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1996 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN I Two charged with robberies ■ ' ■ * - • * "* ’ 3 Juveniles also could face other allegations By Josh Funk Senior Reporter Two Lincoln juveniles were charged with attempted murder and nine other crimes in connec tion with two April 5 shooting rob beries and other crimes. Eric Phillippi, 17, and Justin Gonzales, 16, were arrested over the weekend on multi Phillippi ?lef charges, including two con venience store rob beries, one in which a clerk was shot Both Phillippi and Gonzales were charged with attempted murder, attempted robbery, Gonzales robbery and three counts of the use of a weapon to commit a felony for the two April 5 robberies. Gonzales also was charged with two counts of discharging a weapon at an occupied dwelling and the accompany ing use-of-a-weapon-to-commit-a felony charges for drive-by shootings. Phillippi faces similar charges of shooting into an occupied house and criminal mischief for two other drive-by shootings and the two accompanying use-of-a-weapon charges. Police believe Gonzales and Phillippi may have been involved in sev eral other crimes; additional charges could be filed. A ballistics examiner with the Nebraska State Patrol Crime Lab matched shell casings from the two rob beries. One robbery, at the Kwik Shop, 33rd and Holdredge streets, included shots fired into the ceiling, Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady said. No one was injured in the robbery, which occurred just before midnight on April 5. About a half-hour later, another rob bery occurred at the Gas ‘N Shop, 5560 S. 48th St., at 12:29 a.m. on April 6. Angela Bellew, 22, the clerk during the Gas ‘N Shop robbery, was shot twice, once in the lower back and once in the cheek during the robbery. She was released from the hospital last week. Additional ballistics examinations linked shell casings from the robberies to those found at a March 14 drive-by shooting at 1340 N. 26th St Casady said Gonzales and Phillippi were suspects in the drive-by shooting, which connected them to the robberies. Once Phillippi and Gonzales were identified as suspects, Casady said approximately 25 officers and detec tives, including the SWAT team, were used to locate the suspects. With the assistance of the State Patrol helicopter, officers located Gonzales Thursday after he left a friend’s house around midnight. The house is four houses away from the scene of the March drive-by shooting. Gonzales and another juvenile left in a car with stolen license plates, which were taken during in an April 6 Lincoln theft When surveillance officers called marked police units to stop die vehicle near 27th and Holdredge streets, Gonzales, die driver, fled. During the pursuit speeds reached 60 to 70 mph before police ended the chase near 16th and K streets because of public risk. One of the people in the car Gonzales was driving threw a .22-cal iber pistol out of die window during the pursuit and the pistol was later recov ered, Casady said. Gonzales was arrested shortly after i midnight Friday morning when he returned to another house under surveil lance by the police. While police were pursuing Gonzales, other officers were called to the scene of a drive-by shooting on the 1200 block of Arapahoe Street where a car belonging to an associate of Phillippi was shot several times. Through ballistics research on ■ Friday, police linked the 9 mm shells from Thursday’s drive-by shooting to | the attempted robbery and attempted murder at the Gas ‘N Shop. Shells from the recovered .22-cal- j iber pistol matched casings from the Kwik Shop robbery where shots were * fired into the ceiling. Early Saturday, surveillance offi cers watching a house on the 3600block * of Diablo Drive determined Phillippi j was there and surrounded the house. Phillippi apparently realized he was surrounded, called the police and agreed to give himself up peacefully, Casady said. Phillippi and Gonzales are being held on $500,000 bonds. Preliminary hearings have been scheduled for May | 19 for Phillippi and May 20 for >i Gonzales. I * i i ( iQBi^mHQnnii^HEEroiH i'*i^-,v- \^:v-■ ' HELPING YOU BUILD A SECURE FINANCIAL FUTURE IS AN IMPORTANT JOB. 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