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Suspect arrested in Va. triple slaying

By wire services
Published June 3, 2005

RICHMOND, Va. - A man suspected in a shooting spree that left three people dead and witnesses horrified was arrested without incident Thursday night, police said.

Daniel Andrew Bowler was taken into custody at a hotel in Eastern Henrico County, Capt. Mark Segal of the Richmond Police Department said.

Bowler, 26, was the subject of a manhunt among local, state and federal officers for more than 24 hours after the killings. Two of the men killed were shopkeepers shot in the head by a man yelling racist comments as horrified customers looked on.

The other victim was killed in a public housing complex in South Richmond.

Bowler was identified from surveillance photographs from a convenience store where one of the victims were shot, said police, who described Bowler as armed and dangerous.

NEW ORLEANS - Four white bouncers accused in the Bourbon Street death of a black college student visiting from Georgia were indicted on manslaughter charges by an Orleans Parish grand jury on Thursday.

The bouncers - Matthew Taylor, Arthur Irons, Clay Montz and Brandon Vicknair - worked at the popular Razzoo Bar & Patio in the French Quarter when they forcefully restrained Levon Jones, 26, by pinning him to the ground and putting him in a choke hold.

The coroner ruled that Jones, a Georgia Southern University student, died from "positional asphyxiation" in the New Year's Eve incident.

Initially, three of the four bouncers were charged with negligent homicide, a lesser charge.

The scuffle that led to Jones' death was allegedly sparked when he intervened for a friend who was refused entrance to Razzoo's because he did not meet the dress code. The nightclub has maintained that its bouncers acted appropriately because they were assaulted by Jones.

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on Thursday denied a bid for a gag order by Bill Cosby's lawyers in a lawsuit alleging that the entertainer drugged and sexually molested a woman.

Judge Eduardo Robreno also denied a motion by the plaintiff's attorneys to keep secret the names of other women alleging similar assaults who might be called as witnesses. Robreno said those women could, however, seek confidentiality on an individual basis and he gave them 10 days to do so.

Attorneys for Cosby and his accuser did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

The plaintiff, a former Temple University employee, sued Cosby in March. Cosby has denied any assault but said he gave the woman an over-the-counter medication last year after she complained she was stressed.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. - Police on Thursday stormed a convenience store where a gunman had tied a vacuum cleaner cord around a hostage's waist. The gunman died in the ensuing shootout, authorities said.

Negotiators had arranged for 29-year-old hostage Tammi L. Smith to come to the door to get a new telephone, with officers hoping to pull her out after a 20-hour standoff, state police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said.

Officers tugged on Smith, but the gunman yanked back on the cord and began shooting from inside the store.

Police pulled Smith free, and Dennis McAninch, 34, of Cincinnati, was fatally shot during the exchange of gunfire, state police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said.

It was not immediately clear if he died from police or self-inflicted gunshots, authorities said.

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