Man sentenced to life
1 __
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
In Sie span of a morning, first
degree murder suspect Austin DeHaas
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
life in prison Ibesday. *
DeHaas was convicted of tiie April
murder of 62-year-old Barbara Reid in
her Lincoln apartment
DeHaas pleaded guilty to the
charges as part of a plea agreement to
ensure that the county attorney would
not seek the death penally.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey said his office was contacted
about the matter late Monday after
noon.
“We got a note about the plea
(instead of a call or meeting) very
unexpectedly” Lacey said.
After pleading guilty, DeHaas
waived his right to a pre-sentence
hearing before District Court Judge
PaulMenittJr.
He was sentenced in the same
hour he pleaded, Lacey said. “This
was unusual for a murder case.”
DeHaas’ lawyer, Kristi Egger
Brown, a public defender, is out ofher
office until Sept 11 and could not be
reached for comment
Reidfc family found Reid lying in
the bed ofher apartment with the cov
ers pulled over her head, covering a
stab wound in ho-chest
The family members had been
unable to contact Reid for several days.
Police investigators found that
DeHaas had been staying with Reid
for a week before her death. After her
death, he tried to sell several things
from her apartment, including a tele
vision, a videocassette recorder and
clothes.
Then DeHaas shaved his mus
tache, cleaned up and left town.
He was arrested in Kimball a few
days later.
\
I
i
| ;
r j £
i ] j
f
■
|
11 E
Welcome to the Greek System!
IFC and Greek Affairs
would like to congratulate all of the
new members and
new pledge classes of 1998!
Congratulations
Chris Kaufman _ - „
Matt Benda Larson , Ryan Powers
Dave Drew l-,™ Lee Relchmuth
Chris Eddingt Josh Upker n Reiner
rlckMPnning Rlnkol
Joe Ferrih& in McCarfhy Brad Rugge
Joe Fox jjy mcCov Zack TuPP®r
ScottHendrickson iHnm Mpi^. ZaneTupper
Shannon Hoff J6sh Nlcho)s Justin Vilafane
Mike Johnson A... n Brian Zabbudil
ASUN votes
against policy
ASUN from pagel _
die senate was arguing over die issue.
“Let’s be proactive for a change,”
Brown said. “ASUN at times is too
scared to act on issues that need to be
acted upon. This is discrimination -
period.”
ASUN Speaker Matt Boyd agreed
“If we do not pass this bill tonight,
we are saying die university has the
right to discriminate by the appearance
of a person,” Boyd said.
Not all senate members supported
the “Union Non-Student Policy” bill.
Communications Chairman Joel
Wiegert abstained to vote because he
did not feel informed on all the issues
surrounding the proposed policy.
“I’m not going to vote on this,”
Wiegert said. “Russell shouldn’t even
be ready for a vote. She couldn’t answer
all of our questions about her own bill.”
The bill passed 19-3 with four
abstentions.
“I do believe it is a disgrace to dis
criminate against our fellow man,”
Andy Schuerman, human rights chair
man, said “ASUN’s support of this bill
is a good thing.”
...i ......
[5
Man stabbed in tent
A woman sharing a tent with a man
in a Lincoln alley stabbed him
Wednesday morning after he allegedly
tried to have sex with ho- die previous
night. "
The man, 36, was sharing his tent
with a 39-year-old woman and her 16
year-old daughter, Lincoln Police Capt
David Beggs said
The tent was in an alley between
21st and 22nd streets and P and Q streets.
The girl awoke in the middle of the
night to see the man with his pants down
getting ready to pull die woman’s pants
down, Beggs said
The girl told him not to bother her
mom, and they went back to sleep.
In the morning, the girl told her
mother what she had seen, and the
woman became upset and stabbed the
man in the ribs, Beggs said
The man rolled up his tent and
walked to Day Watch where the staff
noticed that he was bleeding and called
police.
The man was taken to BiyanLGH
West Medical Center, where he was
treated for his injury and released.
The woman was arrested for
assault
Suspected robber arrested
Police arrested a Lincoln man want
ed by the FBI for bank robbery
Wednesday morning.
A federal grand jury indicted the
23-year-old Lincoln man Tuesday for
the armed robbery of Saline State Bank
in Hallam on Dec. 12,1997, according ^
to die U.S. Attorney's office.
In the robbery, two armed men
entered the bank and left with about
$9,980.
After the warrant was issued,
Lincoln police began checking places
where the suspect was known to fre
quent, Lincoln Police Sgt Terry Sherrill
said.
Police spotted the suspect’s car
parked outside a house on the 4900
block of Starr Street around 1:30 a.m.
Wednesday.
Officers surrounded die house and
an arrest was made without a problem at
2:20 a.m., Sherrill said.
Compiled by senior staff writer
Josh Funk.
j$ ^£z •^•••"^', -?-"'-£^^2^ss^r>>'.^-^^.’'•r^.tf-;'''^’--'^t:^‘-i;-;^pp«5;. ‘ ’. ^ ■" r»?
Tixoaro
some tli:
f’-.p'- £>' :; .
|iPWp;; ' ; > ■-• |
■Hi k I &'■■
I*?*® pw
if%. f: */* p,:ff: