ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 TAG: 9701280085
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
7th-grader charged with killing boy, 14
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Children arriving for school watched in horror Monday as a 13-year-old boy who claimed he was owed $40 fatally shot another youngster in the chest.
Fourteen-year-old John Kamel died on the sidewalk in front of Conniston Middle School.
The suspect, Tronneal Mangum, fled campus and was arrested a short time later on a charge of first-degree murder.
The two seventh-graders argued just minutes before school, with Mangum claiming that Kamel owed him money, one student said. Police said Mangum pulled a gun and shot the older boy in the chest.
- Associated Press
$12 million to help rebuild churches
WASHINGTON - The nation's largest association of black churches announced a $12 million church rebuilding and arson-prevention initiative Monday.
Officials of the Congress of National Black Churches Inc. announced that $6 million of the total will come from a grant from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Foundation.
They said the rest would come from public and private-sector ``partners'' and through a fund-raising drive.
At a news conference at the National Press Club, Bishop John Hurst Adams, founder of the organization, said about $3 million of the money will be used over the next three years to rebuild or repair some 50 black or multiracial churches in the South.
The rest will be used to provide black churches with anti-arson security systems and for educational efforts to increase understanding and reconciliation in communities where churches have been burned.
- Associated Press
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