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Notice how it is brought up TWICE in the article that the alleged suspect is a "gun enthusiast." In the second mention, he is also described as a "hunter." Obviously, all gun enthusiasts & hunters, no matter how mild-mannered, are one day going to snap and go around shooting everything in sight. The Brady folks will have a field day with this one, same with that little kid who shot his sister. In that case, somebody needs to horse-whip the parents for not providing proper supervision. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \----------------------------------------------------------/ 6-Hour Siege at Campsite Ends Fatally September 30, 2003 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN A six-hour siege of a gunman believed to have fatally shot one man and wounded three others, including two police detectives, ended at a New Jersey campground yesterday afternoon when a cordon of heavily armed officers closed in after hours of silence and found two men and a woman dead inside the suspect's trailer. The Atlantic County prosecutor, Jeffrey S. Blitz, declined to identify the three people found dead shortly after 2:30 p.m. at the Pomona Campgrounds, in Galloway Township, about 10 miles northwest of Atlantic City, or say how they had died. He said autopsies would be conducted overnight. But neighbors and the camp's proprietor identified the trailer's owner as Gary Heiland, a pipefitter and gun enthusiast, and said that he, a girlfriend and a male acquaintance had been found dead at the end of a siege that involved scores of officers, including sharpshooters who had fired no shots and hostage negotiators who had no opportunity to speak to the suspect. Township officials said Mr. Heiland had holed up in his trailer shortly after 8 a.m., apparently after firing a shot through a window that hit two of six officers who went to his house to investigate a Sunday night bar shooting in which Mr. Heiland was said to have shot two men, one of them fatally. One of the wounded detectives, Joseph McFadden, a 22-year veteran of the Atlantic City Police Department who had been assigned to the prosecutor's major crimes unit for seven years, was shot in the face and was in critical condition last night at Cooper Hospital-University Medical Center in Camden. Detective Kenneth Buck, of the Galloway Township police, suffered a graze wound to the neck and was treated and released at the Atlantic City Medical Center. The two men shot in the bar on Sunday night were identified as Martin Duran Roman, 23, of Galloway Township, who was fatally wounded, and Victor Manuel Alvarez Perez, whose age and address were not given. He was in critical condition at Atlantic City Medical Center, where Mr. Roman died at 3:50 p.m. Both men worked at the Galloway Diner near the bar. As officials sought to unravel the skein of violent encounters that left four dead and three wounded, law enforcement officials said the motives for the shootings at the bar and for the killings at the campground were unknown. "It's incredibly puzzling to us," Coni Hauschild, the owner of Pomona Campground, said last night. She said Mr. Heiland had lived in the camp for about a year and had been a good tenant and a helpful neighbor. "He would have been the last person I would have thought would do this. He was so low key." A neighbor at the camp, Bob Strayhall, said Mr. Heiland was a gun enthusiast and hunter who owned several weapons, including a .22-caliber rifle and a powerful shotgun that he had fashioned out of a length of pipe. Mr. Strayhall said he sometimes accompanied Mr. Heiland to a rifle range. "He's a dead shot," Mr. Strayhall said. As for Mr. Heiland's homemade shotgun, he said: "It would take that telephone pole down." The violence began about 10 p.m. Sunday when a man in his late 40's, believed to be Mr. Heiland, walked into Kennedy's Bar, at the intersection of Routes 30 and 575 in Pomona, a half-mile from the campground, and, after ordering a drink, approached two men playing pool. It was unclear if any words were exchanged, but witnesses said the newcomer drew a gun and shot the two pool players. Lucille Connolly, the owner of the bar, said she was in her apartment upstairs when the shots rang out. "I ran downstairs, and the barmaid was screaming, `Oh, my God! He shot them! He shot them!' " One victim fell under the pool table and another beside a juke box as the gunman walked out. The police were summoned, and the ensuing investigation led a half-dozen Atlantic City and Galloway Township investigators to Mr. Heiland's trailer yesterday morning. The Galloway Township manager, Thomas Henshaw, said the description of the gunman fit Mr. Heiland. Mr. Blitz, the prosecutor, said that as the officers approached the trailer about 8:15 a.m., a shot was fired through a closed window. The bullet passed through Detective McFadden's face and grazed Detective Buck's neck. The other officers pulled the victims out of the line of fire, officials said, and calls for assistance brought two medical helicopters and hundreds of heavily armed federal, state, county and local police officers from eight communities. The camp, with 100 sites for trailers and transient campers, was evacuated as a ring of firepower was set up around Mr. Heiland's trailer. Over the next six hours, no shots were fired by the police, and no one reported hearing shots fired inside the trailer. Mr. Blitz said the negotiators were unable to make contact with Mr. Heiland. It was unclear to the authorities whether anyone besides Mr. Heiland was in the trailer. About 1 p.m., the police sent in a robot with a camera, but it was unclear if the effort yielded any information. By 2:33 p.m., after more than six hours of silence, the police closed in, entered the trailer and found the bodies of the woman and two men. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/nyregion/30SHOO.html?ex=1065915354&ei=1&en=4824db03a73cea7a --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! 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