-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Pa. Cops Cite Anti-White Writings Updated 11:43 AM ET March 2, 2000 By TODD SPANGLER, Associated Press Writer WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Police said today that the black man charged with shooting five white men in a Pittsburgh suburb had "anti-white" writings in his apartment. Ronald Taylor, accused of killing two and critically wounding three others, singled out whites according to witnesses. One former hostage said today the gunman told a fellow black, "Not you, sister," as he threatened to shoot other hostages. Taylor, 39, was arrested Wednesday after surrendering following the shootings at his apartment building and at two restaurants and a brief hostage-taking at an office building. Lt. John Brennan, of the Allegheny County police, said today that a search at Taylor's apartment Wednesday night found writings he characterized as being angry at whites. He refused to disclose their contents and said he could not make them available to the public. "They were just some of his thoughts. It was basically anti-white, anti-Jew," Brennan said. Brennan said charges under the state's ethnic intimidation statute would probably be brought against Taylor, who was expected to be arraigned on charges other than the criminal homicide counts in Wilkinsburg this afternoon. An incident with maintenance workers at Taylor's apartment building apparently touched off the rage, authorities said. Police Sgt. John Fisher, who negotiated with Taylor during the standoff, said the suspect was upset that his apartment door wasn't fixed fast enough. All the people shot were white males. But authorities stressed that the motives for the rampage may be more complex than racial animosity. "There have obviously been some racial overtones, but he appears to be an angry young man," Wilkinsburg police Chief Gerald Brewer told NBC's "Today" this morning. "He was very angry apparently at a lot of different things, but one can draw a lot of different conclusions from that." The trouble started Wednesday after three maintenance workers - two whites and a black - went to Taylor's apartment to fix a door. "He said, 'You're all white trash, racist pigs,"' John DeWitt, one of the maintenance workers, told The Associated Press. "He looked at me and said, 'You're dead."' DeWitt, who is white, said he was then called away to work on another job in the building. Taylor then allegedly shot the other white worker and set his own apartment on fire before heading to the two restaurants. One man was shot at a Burger King and three others at a McDonald's during lunch time. Joyce Ambrose, one of the people briefly held hostage in the office building, said Taylor told them, "I have one bullet left and I'm going to use it on you guys. Which one of you should it be?" "And he told us to get walking," she said on ABC's "Good Morning America" today. "And we were walking and encountered another employee, Barb, who's black and he looked at her and said, 'Not you, sister. You can go."' Ambrose said he then picked on a white woman, raised the gun toward her head, uttered a racial epithet, grabbed her wrist but then said: "'No, I think I'll terrorize you for a while."' Christine McCrae, who is black, said Wednesday that Taylor ran through her house on the way to the office building. He assured her that she was not a target, she said. "I'm not going to hurt any black people. I'm just out to kill all white people.' That's exactly what he said," she told WTAE-TV. But Monique Frost, 29, a mental health therapist who is a neighbor of Taylor's, discounted the theory that race played a role in Taylor's actions, noting that the apartment fire put black neighbors in danger. "I know he made some racial statements, but he set that fire in a building where all African-Americans live with the exception of one Caucasian," Frost told The Associated Press. "And he didn't warn anybody. The people in that building could have died." Taylor is charged with two counts of criminal homicide, an umbrella charge that includes various degrees of murder and manslaughter. The dead were identified as John Kroll, 55, the maintenance worker, and Joseph Healy, 71, a former priest from Wilkinsburg. The others shot were identified as Richard Clinger, Emil Sanielevici and Steven Bostard. It was the nation's second incident of high-profile gun violence in as many days. On Tuesday, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot a first-grade classmate in Michigan. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! 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