
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 12, 1991                   TAG: 9102120031
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MARSHALL, MICH.                                LENGTH: Short

THREATENED TV NEWS ANCHOR SHOT

A television anchorwoman who was haunted by threatening calls and a letter from a rebuffed male admirer was shot to death in her driveway, but investigators Monday didn't rule out other suspects.

Diane Newton King of WUHQ-TV in Battle Creek was shot twice Saturday night as she turned to get her young children out of her car.

Police searched the farmhouse where Newton King, 34, and her husband, Bradford King, lived with their 3-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter.

Newton King and her children had just returned from her native Detroit when she was shot with a small-caliber gun. Her husband found the body in the driveway, said Calhoun County Sheriff Jon Olson.

Authorities were not limiting their search for a suspect to an anonymous male admirer who sent Newton King a threatening note months earlier, Olson said.

"She had been receiving calls from a male who had wanted to get into the broadcasting business and was asking for her advice," said Jan Hammer, general manager of KJCT-TV in Grand Junction, Colo., where Newton King had worked. "The caller asked if she wanted to have lunch with him and she declined."

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