NFL player Lewis charged in deaths
■ Medical examiner says
stab wounds indicate killer
had knowledge of where to
deliver fatal blows.
ATLANTA (AP) — The two men
killed in a brawl that led to murder
charges against NFL star Ray Lewis
were stabbed to death by someone who
“knew something about anatomy,” a
medical examiner said Wednesday.
The two victims’ wounds were
directly to major organs and both men
quickly bled to death, said Dr. John
Parker, a Fulton County associate med
ical examiner.
“A lot of times in a fight with a
knife, we’ll see just mayhem, people
swinging wildly, abrasions, light cuts,
things like that,” Parke said. “This was
n’t like that. These were well-directed
wounds into vital areas. They knew
what they were doing.”
Lewis is charged with two counts
of murder, in the Monday stabbing
deaths of Richard Lollar, 24, and
Jacinth “Shorty” Baker, 21.
The Baltimore Ravens linebacker
is being held without baif until at least
Feb. 24, and he faces life in prison or
the death penalty if convicted.
Lollar was declared dead at the
scene by police responding to a fight
call in the Buckhead bar district sever
al hours after the Super Bowl ended
seven miles away at the Georgia Dome.
Baker was transported to a local hospi
tal, but declared dead upon arrival.
Parker said Baker was wounded in
his liver and heart, while Lollar’s
wounds were concentrated around his
heart.
“A typical pocket knife could do
this,” Parker said. “Whoever did this
knew exactly where to hit and do the
damage ... you could say they knew
something about anatomy.”
Lewis’ lawyer, Max Richardson Jr.,
has acknowledged that his client was at
the scene but says Lewis did not kill the
men.
A spokesman for the Fulton
County district attorney said
Wednesday it doesn’t matter if Lewis
actually held the knife — he can still be
tried for murder if he helped the killer
or was involved in the fight that pre
ceded the slayings.
“When and if this case goes any
where, there will be aggravated assault
charges added,” spokesman Erik
Friedly said. “And someone died as a
U A typical pocket knife could do this.
Whoever did this knew exactly where
to hit and do the damage.”
Dr. John Parker
Fulton County associate medical examiner
result of the assault, so felony murder
charges are automatic.”
Atlanta police on Wednesday
would not disclose further details of
their investigation. Officers reportedly
are seeking arrest warrants for at least
two of Lewis’ friends who were with
him Monday.
According to witnesses, the two
victims were involved in a fight with
six men who fled in a limousine.
Police have released limousine dri
ver Duane Fossett, according to a
spokeswoman for All Stretched Out
Limousine Service of Glen Bumie,
Md.
Fossett returned to the Baltimore
area Wednesday and was “exhausted”
after being questioned and kept in
Atlanta Monday by investigators, said
Lorena Cochran.
She said Fossett had been instruct
ed not to speak to anyone about the
case.
Cochran also said the company’s
owner Anthony Toskov accompanied
the limousine back to Maryland on
Wednesday but would not be available
for comment. No one answered at
Toskov’s home.
In The (Baltimore) Sun on
Wednesday, Toskov said Fossett had
told him Lewis did not kill the two
men.
Toskov also said Lewis had rented
the limo and left Baltimore with some
friends. The group stopped in
Charlotte, N.C., to pick up a few more
friends en route to Atlanta, where
Lewis made several appearances lead
ing to Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Charlotte police said Wednesday
that Atlanta police had not contacted
them about any possible suspects.
NCAA eases academic criteria
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — High
school athletes will now have an
easier time meeting academic stan
dards that allow them to play col
lege sports.
A new set of NCAA rules will
let high schools determine whether
athletes have fulfilled course
requirements for college eligibility.
The decision means that many
athletes who had been denied schol
arships in the past will now be able
to qualify for-them.
A committee of the governing
body recommended the change last
spring, and the NCAA Division I
and II membership recently
approved the legislation.
The NCAA eliminated certain
parts of the course requirements,
giving high school principals more
latitude in setting the agenda. The
change takes effect immediately.
The old rules were much more
stringent and allowed the NCAA to
determine what were acceptable
courses. For example, one previous
regulation disqualified social stud
ies courses that devoted more than
25 percent of classroom time to cur
rent affairs or independent study.
I “We’ve become more generic in
defining those academic criteria,”
Bob Oliver, director of NCAA
L„. membership services, said
Wednesday.
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they send in a course titled
'woodworking ’ or ‘drivers ed ’ or
‘phys ed’or ‘remedial reading.’”
Bob Oliver
director of NCAA membership services
The new rules require several
things: that a course be considered
college preparatory, be taught at or
above the high school’s regular aca
demic level and qualify for gradua
tion credit in English, math, natural
or physical science, social science,
foreign language, computer science
or nondoctrinal religion or philoso
phy.
Independent study, individual
instruction and correspondence and
Internet courses may now be part of
the new criteria for core subjects.
Oliver said the changes came
about after two years of discussions.
“In areas of science and English,
for example, they do a lot of inter
disciplinary work,” he said. “We’re
saying, if you give a course in
English credit at your high school
and that’s preparing the student for a
four-year college, then that’s meet
ing the intent of what we’re trying to
do.”
He said the intent is to prepare
students to succeed in college.
“Not are they able to use a com
puter to edit their term paper, but are
they prepared to write a term
paper?” he said.
Oliver said the NCAA in most
cases will accept a principal’s certi
fication that a course satisfies
requirements.
“The only time we’ll investigate
is if they send in a course titled
‘woodworking’ or ‘drivers ed’ or
‘phys ed’ or ‘remedial reading,”’ he
said,
“That would throw up a red flag.
Maybe those are gross exaggera
tions of what might come in, but in
the instructions we have sent to high
schools, we clarify the NCAA has
the authority to ask about a course
whose title is off in left field.”
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