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

DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993                   TAG: 9309110181
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE: MIAMI                                LENGTH: Medium

2 MORE ARRESTED IN MIAMI SHOOTING OF GERMAN TOURIST

Patsy Jones, the woman believed to have fired the sawed-off rifle that killed a German tourist, and another man were arrested Friday after a frenzied two-day manhunt.

Police said Jones was one of three highway robbers who stalked Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand, 33, from the Miami airport Tuesday and repeatedly bumped the rear of his rental car. Rakebrand died from a bullet to the back as he and his pregnant wife, Kathrin, made a desperate attempt to flee.

Jones "did confess to having pulled the trigger in this incident," Miami police homicide detective Carlos Avila said.

"Because he wouldn't stop," Eunice Cooper, another detective on the case, said.

Police also arrested Alvan Hudson, 19. Another suspect, Jones' boyfriend, Recondall Wiggins, 19, was arrested Wednesday. Police said he confessed to driving a Ryder rental truck used during Rakebrand's slaying.

All three suspects are charged with first-degree murder.

"This crime put homicide detectives and police into overdrive," Miami police spokesman David Magnusson said. "It sickened us and it sickened the community. These people needed to be caught. They're dangerous."

Police arrested Jones, 20, early Friday at an undisclosed location after staking out several apartments where tips said she could be hiding.

On Thursday, police executed search warrants, set up perimeters and questioned people across Dade County to find Jones. They maintained a very visible surveillance of a Liberty City apartment complex until early Friday in the belief Jones was being harbored by friends.

Jones, Wiggins and Hudson also are believed to be the three-person gang in a Ryder truck that committed a carjacking against a Chicago businessman the day before Rakebrand's slaying.

"We have reason to believe it's the same people," Miami police Sgt. Jack Andrews said, "It happened in the same area, a Ryder truck was involved, the gun was fired."

The Rakebrands had just arrived from Adendorf, Germany, on a belated honeymoon. They were reading a safety brochure warning them about highway robberies when the Ryder truck repeatedly bumped the rear of their rental car.

When Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand refused to stop, someone in the truck fired a single shot, killing him.

by CNB