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

DATE: THURSDAY, January 16, 1992                   TAG: 9201160339
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY  
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DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                                LENGTH: Short

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GUN SELLER TESTIFIES IN SUIT AGAINST STORE

A clerk who sold a gun used in a fatal shooting spree at a private school said Wednesday he could not remember making the sale.

However, Tony Massengill, a part-time clerk at Guns Unlimited in Isle of Wight County, said he never would allow a sale when it appeared an adult was buying a handgun to turn over to a juvenile. Massengill was testifying in the trial of a $3 million lawsuit against Guns Unlimited.

The suit was brought by William J. Farley, whose wife, Karen, was killed in December 1988 when a 15-year-old student at the Atlantic Shores Christian School where Karen Farley taught went on a rampage with a 9mm semiautomatic gun that had been purchased at Guns Unlimited.

Nicholas Elliott, the student, is serving a life prison sentence. - Associated Press

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