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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 23 OctOber 2019

This booking photo released by the Pelham Police Department
shows Dale Holloway, arrested on several charges following a
shooting at a wedding at New England Pentecostal Ministries on
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Pelham, N.H.
Associated Press
Charges: Church Ridgeway High School students are led back to their classes after the arrest of a suspect who
opened fire from on another student across the street from the high school , Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019
shooting suspect badly in Santa Rosa, Calif. Associated Press

beats public defender Student shot teen near California

By HOLLY RAMER ends, officials told police. In school, slipped into class
Associated Press this case, the officer heard
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — a knock and turned to see By STEFANIE DAZIO told The Associated Press. didn't realize he was the
A man charged with at- Holloway standing up and / JANIE HAR "It's a scary situation." gunman, Cregan said.
tempted murder in a Davidow seated at the ta- Associated Press The two teens got into an Witnesses told police the
church shooting attacked ble, with his hands over his SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A argument before the gun- shooter fired three to four
his public defender during face and blood dripping 17-year-old boy gunned man shot the victim twice. rounds before fleeing, au-
a jailhouse meeting, send- onto the floor. down another student on He fell down but was able thorities said. Dozens of stu-
ing the man to intensive During the ambulance ride, a sidewalk outside their to get back up and walk to dents were in the area at
care with severe head in- Davidow told paramedics school Tuesday, ditched a car that took him to the the time. The attacker was
juries and no memory of he was a public defender his gun and slipped into a hospital, Cregan said. He booked into jail on suspi-
the beating, according to but didn't remember going class without arousing sus- was in stable condition. cion of attempted murder.
documents released Tues- to work, and he was un- picion, evading capture Police don't know if the per- Panicked parents got text
day. Dale Holloway, 37, able to answer questions for almost two hours as he son who took the backpack messages and worried
of Manchester, assaulted about the year or time of joined thousands of stu- and drove away knew a about their kids' safety.
public defender Michael day. At the hospital, he dents locked down inside gun was inside. They're in- Cherie Posluszny said her
Davidow on Monday morn- said he remembered put- classrooms because of the vestigating whether the 17-year-old daughter text-
ing at the Valley Street jail ting his phone and keys shooting he carried out, shooting was gang related. ed that someone got shot.
in Manchester, New Hamp- into a locker at the jail be- police said. More than 10,000 students A minute later, the girl text-
shire, the documents said. fore his meeting with Hollo- The teen was arrested in a and staffers in a complex ed, "I love you," followed by
No one saw the assault be- way, and then waking up gym class by officers who with three schools were another message before
cause the two men were in in the ambulance. used surveillance video to locked down after the her phone stopped work-
an unmonitored interview The lawyer, who suffered track him after he shot and shooting outside Ridgway ing. She then used a friend's
room, and the closest of- a broken nose, a stroke wounded a 16-year-old High School in Santa Rosa, phone, and her mother
ficer was at a desk facing caused by bleeding boy, then handed his gun north of San Francisco. asked if she was OK.
away from the room, ac- around the brain and other in a backpack to someone The shooter was "behaving "Not really. But I will be OK,"
cording to jail officials. injuries, also told police that in a car. normally," following lock- her daughter responded.
Attorneys generally turn a previous meeting with "It's disturbing to see that he down protocol by going The girl said she spent hours
the lights on and off or tap Holloway hadn't gone well, was able to go right around to the nearest classroom lying on the cold floor hid-
the glass to get the officer's and that Holloway did not to his normal business," po- after the shooting. The gym ing behind a teacher's desk
attention when a meeting want him as his lawyer.q lice Capt. John Cregan teacher and other students with other students. q