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"Thalamus" <zhil@online.no> wrote in message news:<RrWp9.3282$jS5.70964@news2.ulv.nextra.no>...
> Fra: "[CREATIVITY]" <wcotc_virginia@hotmail.com>
> Til: <zhil@online.no>
> Emne: The Wichita Horror - NOT a hate crime
> Dato: 12. oktober 2002 06:36
> 
> [Multiculturalism is a fatal illness...]
> 
> Posted on Wed, Oct. 09, 2002
> 
> BY RON SYLVESTER
> The Wichita Eagle
> 
> Gruesome crime scene photos and chilling testimony Tuesday from the lone
> survivor of a quadruple homicide nearly two years ago created a disturbing
> second day of state's testimony in the capital murder trial of Jonathan and
> Reginald Carr.
> 
> Jurors left the courtroom of Judge Paul Clark staring at the floor as family
> and friends of the victims waited silently to be dismissed.
> 
> Reginald Carr, one of two brothers facing the death penalty if convicted,
> looked at faces glaring back at him as court guards marched him back to
> jail. Jonathan, his younger brother, looked straight ahead.
> 
> Prosecutors had spent the first day and a half reconstructing events
> surrounding the shooting of five people, and the killing of four, in a
> snow-covered soccer field on Dec. 15, 2000.
> 
> Seats that had been full during the first day of testimony emptied at
> midmorning Tuesday as Wichita police crime scene investigator Kevin Brasser
> took the stand.
> 
> Brasser worked alone in the dark that morning collecting evidence and taking
> pictures at 29th Street North and Greenwich Road, where the bodies were
> found. The jury sat expressionless as they looked at Brasser's graphic
> photos, displayed under repeated defense objections.
> 
> But Clark's small court filled again after lunch, when the sole survivor of
> the attack, a one-time schoolteacher, retold her story. The only vacant
> seats were the ones next to Jonathan and Reginald Carr's mother.
> 
> The state's eyewitness, who testified 18 months ago at a preliminary
> hearing, once again calmly recounted her nightmare.
> 
> She told of two black men armed with guns breaking into the home of her
> boyfriend, Jason Befort, of then being raped and sodomized and of watching
> her friends beaten.
> 
> She said all the men wanted to know when they burst in around 11 p.m. on
> Dec. 14, 2000 was: Who has money?
> 
> "None of us had any cash on us," she said.
> 
> Have any ATM cards?
> 
> "We all raised our hands."
> 
> How much money do you have in the bank? the attackers asked, she said.
> 
> Each had between $200 and $1,500, she recollected.
> 
> "They were not irrational, they were just shouting and very demanding," she
> said.
> 
> District Attorney Nola Foulston asked what she thought would have happened
> if they didn't comply with those demands.
> 
> "We were under the impression they'd probably shoot us," said the woman.
> 
> Since the day of the crime, she has not been identified because of an Eagle
> policy of not printing the names of sexual assault victims.
> 
> She told of assaults and sodomy in detail, as everyone -- including the
> Carrs -- kept their eyes on the witness stand. The jury watched her
> intently, looking down to occasionally take notes.
> 
> Family members and friends of Befort, Aaron Sander, Heather Muller and Brad
> Heyka sniffled and tried to hold back tears.
> 
> "Oh, God, no," one person whispered as the woman told of one horrific sexual
> attack on another man that had her fearing for her boyfriend's life.
> 
> She said the attackers kept some of them in a bedroom closet while taking
> one or two out at a time to assault them or give orders at gunpoint.
> 
> Just before midnight, the stockier of the two men began taking each of them
> in Befort's Dodge Dakota to automatic teller machines, forcing them to
> withdraw money, she said. When it was her turn to drive, she said the man
> kept fiddling with the radio, trying to find a music station he liked.
> 
> "Oh, Christ," someone from the gallery sighed in disbelief.
> 
> But en route to and from a Commerce ATM at 21st Street and Webb Road, she
> said the man told her he wouldn't shoot anyone.
> 
> "I said, 'Do you promise?' " she remembered.
> 
> "He said, 'Yeah, I'm not gonna shoot you.' "
> 
> She said she later told her friends.
> 
> "As I got back in the closet I said, 'I think we're gonna be OK.' I said,
> 'He said he's not going to shoot us.' "
> 
> During the hours of agony, the woman learned that Befort had bought an
> engagement ring for her. One of the intruders found the ring in a popcorn
> tin.
> 
> "Is this the only one?" she remembered the intruder asking, wanting to know
> if there was any more jewelry.
> 
> That's all, Befort told him.
> 
> She said the bigger man then said something that made her think he had taken
> back his earlier promise.
> 
> "Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you yet," she remembered him saying
> before he raped her. It was the second time she had been raped that night.
> 
> "Were you able to see or look at this individual?" Foulston asked.
> 
> "I did," the witness answered.
> 
> During the preliminary hearing, the woman positively identified Jonathan
> Carr, but not Reginald Carr.
> 
> On Tuesday, she said she saw both men, but was not asked to identify them.
> 
> She saw the second man in the bathroom, as he attacked one of her friends.
> 
> "And were you able to get a good look at him?" Foulston asked.
> 
> "Yes," she said, "I was."
> 
> Her testimony continues this morning.

This is probably not being covered by your local media. But can you
imagine the uproar if the racial roles had been reversed?

Harley