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Tuesday 19 sepTember 2017
Man charged in 1992 slaying of Massachusetts teacher’s aide

By ALANNA RICHER tody in Connecticut and Gulluni said.Ziegert, of dence taken from Zieg- ert, Gulluni said. Schara,
Associated Press charged with the abduc- Agawam, was raped and ert’s body, Gulluni said. 48, had fled to Connecti-
BOSTON (AP)—A man has tion, rape and killing of stabbed after she disap- he district attorney said cut and attempted to
been charged with the 24-year-old Lisa Ziegert, peared from her night job troopers attempted earli- kill himself, Gulluni said.
1992 killing of a middle Hampden District Attor- at a card and gift store. er this month to find Scha- Authorities found Schara
school teacher’s aide af- ney Anthony Gulluni told Her body was found in ra, who’s been a person at a Connecticut medi-
ter testing confirmed that reporters.“Through the de- a wooded area 4 miles of interest since 1993, but cal facility, where he was
his DNA matched evi- termined and skilled work away four days later. he wasn’t home.The next taken into custody on a
dence found at the crime of many investigators, we Schara’s arrest came af- day, a person close to fugitive-of-justice charge.
scene, authorities said have arrested the person ter authorities decided to Schara contacted police He appeared in a Con-
Monday. responsible for the heinous circle back to persons of with information about necticut court Monday
Gary Schara, of West acts committed against interest in the case whose handwritten documents and waived extradition
Springfield, Massachu- Lisa and the 25-year-long DNA profiles had never in which he admitted to Massachusetts, local
setts, was taken into cus- search for answer is over,” been run against evi- raping and killing Zieg- news outlets reported. q

Student shot by officer had called 911 before encounter

By KATE BRUMBACK shooting, Schultz could
Associated Press have received treatment
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia and gotten better, Stewart
Tech student who was fa- said.
tally shot by campus police “The mentally ill are looking
had called 911 to report an for a way out when they’re
armed and possibly intoxi- having a full breakdown,
cated suspicious person and there’s no way you
fitting his physical descrip- should be able to use a
tion. police officer to take your
Campus police killed Scout life when that person isn’t
Schultz, 21, who they said threatened,” Stewart said.
was advancing on officers Stewart says he plans to
with a knife. Schultz refused sue over the shooting.
to put down the knife and Authorities have not iden-
kept moving toward of- tified the officer who shot
ficers late Saturday, the Schultz nor have they re-
Georgia Bureau of Investi- leased the audio of the
gation said in a statement. 911 call, which came in
“Officers provided multiple around 11:17 p.m. Satur-
verbal commands and day, according to the GBI.
attempted to speak with Georgia Tech on Monday
(Schultz) who was not co- refused to release person-
operative and would not nel or disciplinary reports
comply with the officers’ In this photo taken Sept. 17, 2017, a mourner sets out flowers at a memorial for Georgia Tech involving the officers, say-
commands,” the agency student Scout Schultz in Atlanta, Ga. Schultz was a 21-year-old who was shot and killed during a ing such information is
said in a statement. Schultz confrontation with police on campus Saturday, Sept. 16. exempt from Georgia’s
“continued to advance on (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) open records law.Schultz
the officers with the knife.” the person as a white male, dorm room. blade on the tool was not was president of Pride Alli-
Investigators have deter- with long blonde hair, Investigators recovered a out. Flanked by Schultz’s ance at Georgia Tech. The
mined that Schultz was the white T-shirt and blue jeans multi-purpose tool that in- parents earlier Monday, fourth-year computer en-
one who called Georgia who is possibly intoxicated, cluded a knife at the scene Stewart said the officer who gineering student used the
Tech police to report a sus- holding a knife and pos- but didn’t find any guns, shot Schultz overreacted. name Scout, rather than
picious person on campus, sibly armed with a gun on Miles said.Chris Stewart, an Schultz was having a break- the given name Scott, and
GBI spokeswoman Nelly his hip,” Miles said, adding attorney for Schultz’s par- down and was suicidal but preferred the pronouns
Miles said in an emailed that three suicide notes ents said Monday the GBI if the officer had used non- “they” and “them” rather
statement Monday. were found in Schultz’s confirmed to him that the lethal force rather than than “he” or “him.” q
“In the call, Shultz describes
Cops: Ammo, manifesto seized in school shooting suspect home

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS other students, accord- provide details about what Thursday and Friday af- face, the documents said.
Associated Press ing to court documents was written in the manifesto ter authorities said Sharpe The teen then walked down
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) filed in the case.Investiga- discovered in a notebook. brought a handgun and a hallway, firing at or into
— Guns, ammunition, a tors last week also found a Another notebook had a an assault rifle to school the ceiling and wounding
Molotov cocktail and a “manifesto” in the home of list of chemicals. The Molo- Wednesday in a duffel bag three female students, au-
school yearbook with pic- 15-year-old Caleb Sharpe, tov cocktail was described he had carried onto his thorities have said. Sharpe
tures of faces marked with said the documents made as a “practice” incendiary high school bus. told police that he had
X’s were seized by police public Friday that emerged device but the documents The assault rifle jammed been bullied by the boy
from the home of a Wash- in the media Monday as stu- provided no more details. when he tried to load it who died but did not target
ington state high school dents returned to Freeman The school near the small inside the school and he him specifically.Some stu-
sophomore accused of High School for the first time town of Rockford near pulled out a pistol and shot dents walked arm-in-arm
fatally shooting a class- since last week’s shooting. Washington state’s bor- the 15-year-old classmate as they showed up for their
mate and wounding three The documents did not der with Idaho was closed in the abdomen and in the classes on Monday. q