THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, December 18, 1994 TAG: 9412170286
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A31 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
Two years before he opened fire on the White House, Francisco M. Duran was on the U.S. Army's payroll.
Not as a soldier, but as a prison inmate.
On Aug. 9, 1990, Spc. Duran deliberately drove his red Nissan sedan into a crowd of people who had chased the drunken soldier from the bowling alley at Schofield Barracks on Oahu in Hawaii.
Cecilia Ululani Ufano, 49, was tossed in the air and suffered a fractured skull when she landed.
Duran was convicted on Feb. 15, 1991, of aggravated assaulted and sentenced to five years in prison, but the military kept paying him until June 1992. In all he was paid $17,537 after his conviction.
A military court had ordered his pay to stop, but Duran wrote to a commander hearing his appeal, pleading for a paycheck to help his family.
The commander allowed Duran to keep some of his pay.
- Cox News Service by CNB