some good news: fed disarmer shot dead
Dynamite Bob
dbob at semtex.com
Fri Oct 12 11:47:46 PDT 2001
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAT6R3AQSC.html
Federal Prosecutor, a
Prominent Gun-Control
Advocate, Shot to Death in
Seattle Home
By Peggy AndersenAssociated Press Writer
Published: Oct 12, 2001
SEATTLE (AP) - A federal prosecutor who headed a
prominent gun control group in his spare time was shot in his home
and died early Friday.
Thomas C. Wales, 49, died about 1:15 a.m. Friday at Harborview
Medical Center. He had been shot in the neck and the side late
Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Details about the shooting were sketchy. No arrests had been made,
police spokesman Mark Jamieson said.
Wales was a member of the fraud unit in the U.S. attorney's office
here, specializing in prosecution of banking and business crime,
spokesman Lawrence Lincoln said.
He also was board president of Seattle-based Washington
Ceasefire, a gun-control group.
"The death of Tom Wales is a terrible loss to our movement," said a
statement from Michael T. Barnes, president of the Washington,
D.C.-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "Although we
do not yet know the motives for the shooting, we are angered by the
murder of this true visionary."
Federal agencies were assisting Seattle police in the investigation.
Officials with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms declined to comment.
According to The Seattle Times, neighbors in the wealthy Queen
Anne Hill neighborhood reported hearing shots shortly before 11
p.m. Thursday.
Neighbor Tom Olsby said Wales' wife, Elizabeth, a former Seattle
School Board member, was away visiting family in New England.
On Sept. 30, Washington Ceasefire planted thousands of daffodils in
a popular city park in remembrance of people who had died from
gun violence.
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