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"Satan" <homeofsatan@home.com> wrote in message news:<sDmG7.24118$Ud.993082@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>...
> Prosecutors wrap up case against shooting rampage suspect by showing hate
> writings
> 
> By DAN NEPHIN
> The Associated Press
> 11/6/01 7:18 AM
> 
> 
> PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Prosecutors handed jurors copies of a "hit list" and
> rants against whites, Jews and homosexuals that were recovered from the
> apartment of a black man accused of killing three people in a racially
> motivated shooting rampage.
> 
> "Jesus Christ made a very big, costly mistake by putting white trash people
> on the face of this earth," Ronald Taylor wrote.
> 
> His attorney, John Elash, did not object to the profanity-laced writings
> being presented. He said they would be helpful in trying to convince jurors
> that Taylor is innocent by reason of insanity. He planned to argue that
> Taylor suffers from paranoia and delusions.
> 
> Prosecutors, who rested their case Monday, contend Taylor knew what he was
> doing when he shot five white men on March 1, 2000, killing three of them.
> One man worked at Taylor's apartment building in the suburb Wilkinsburg,
> while the others were at two nearby fast food restaurants.
> 
> Taylor could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.
> 
> In earlier testimony Monday, Patrice Papenmeier told how Taylor came into
> her office at the West Penn Center, grabbed her and a co-worker, and
> positioned them against a wall. Taylor said he had only one bullet left and
> asked them if they knew how many people he had just shot.
> 
> "Which one am I going to kill?" Papenmeier said Taylor asked them, as he
> waved a revolver back and forth between their foreheads.
> 
> Papenmeier said Taylor told another co-worker, a black woman, she could
> leave. It was only after Taylor closed himself in another room -- telling
> the women, "When you open this door, I'll be dead" -- that Papenmeier and
> the others ran, she said.
> 
> Instead of shooting himself, he held off police for several hours.
> 
> Pittsburgh Sgt. John Fisher testified that Taylor said he wanted to kill
> himself because he didn't want his mother to see him spend the rest of his
> life in prison. Taylor also said he hated police, particularly white
> officers, because he felt they were out to frame blacks, Fisher said. Taylor
> eventually surrendered.
> 
> Prosecutors also called Wilkinsburg Officer Richard Scheeman, who escorted
> Taylor from a police vehicle to the police station. Scheeman said he offered
> to give Taylor something to shield his face with from television cameras.
> 
> He said Taylor responded by saying, "I'm proud of what I did. I don't need
> anything to cover my face."

If Taylor had been White the wispish press would have screamed nationally.

Phil