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

DATE: FRIDAY, September 10, 1993                   TAG: 9309100113
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MIAMI                                LENGTH: Short

FLA. MAN, 19 CHARGED WITH TOURIST'S KILLING

A 19-year-old woman was being sought in the death of a German tourist who was gunned down shortly after he and his pregnant wife arrived in the United States for their belated honeymoon.

Another 19-year-old, Recondall Wiggins, sobbed in court as he was ordered held without bond on first-degree murder and attempted robbery charges Thursday. Police looked for his girlfriend, Patsy Jones, who's suspected of pulling the trigger.

Wiggins - who's been arrested five times since he was 17 on charges of aggravated assault, burglary and grand larceny - confessed to driving the van that bumped Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand's rental car in a confrontation that left him dead at the wheel, said police Detective Carlos Avila.

Rakebrand, 33, is the eighth foreign tourist - the fourth German - killed in Florida in a year. Widespread reforms intended to make tourists less vulnerable and telltale rental cars less obvious were unable to save him. A top German travel official told his countrymen Thursday "don't go to Miami." - Associated Press

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