THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, February 24, 1996 TAG: 9602240344
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A4 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: DEDHAM, MASS. LENGTH: Long : 111 lines
Authorities found 100 cartridges, a Boston-area map book highlighting the street in Brookline where women's health clinics are located, and images of aborted fetuses inside John C. Salvi III's truck after he was arrested, an FBI agent testified Friday in Norfolk County Superior Court.
FBI Special Agent Michael Malone also testified that he recovered an envelope on which Salvi had written the addresses of three clinics that perform abortions - one in Hartford; one in Alexandria, Va.; and one in Norfolk, Va., where Salvi was arrested on Dec. 31, 1994, after spraying the Hillcrest Clinic with 23 bullets.
Salvi, 23, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the Dec. 30, 1994, killings of Shannon Lowney at the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Brookline and Lee Ann Nichols at the Preterm Health Services clinic, also in Brookline. Five others were wounded in the two attacks.No one was hurt in the Hillcrest case.
Salvi, who acknowledges being the gunman, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Norfolk County prosecutors contend that Salvi was sane, and that he planned the shootings because of his opposition to abortion.
Malone said officials found in Salvi's truck a Boston-area map book with Beacon Street in Brookline highlighted in yellow. Both Planned Parenthood and Preterm are located on Beacon Street. Streets leading to Gynecare, a women's clinic in Boston, were also highlighted.
On Friday, Norfolk County prosecutors presented 10 witnesses, most of whom were FBI forensic experts. Special Agent Robert Fram testified that he matched a roll of black tape found in a bag Salvi left at Preterm with tape wrapped around an ammunition clip later found in Salvi's truck.
Defense attorney J.W. Carney Jr. questioned Malone about a note Salvi had written on the cover of a magazine, The New American, also found in the truck.
The note, written in a cartoon bubble so that it appeared to have been spoken by the armed man posed on the magazine's cover, said: ``I can't believe you don't realize what a devil I am. I am spending my days persecuting the church by serving anti-Christ doctrines of enslavement.''
Carney tried to show that the words reflected Salvi's deranged view of himself. Prosecutors sought to show, through the later testimony of an ATF agent, that the note reflected Salvi's view of the agent pictured on the cover.
ATF Special Agent Henry J. Moniz Jr. testified that the man on the cover was an ATF agent wearing his badge and camouflouge gear and holding a government-issued M-16 rifle. Salvi jurors hear tape of gunfire at Hillcrest
The taped sound of bullets being fired at the Hillcrest Clinic in Norfolk echoed through the courtroom Thursday.
Jurors heard a recording of Salvi firing several rounds from his
``I saw the gun in his hand,'' said jewelry store worker Carol Long. ``Before I could take any action, he passed by me and he turned, faced the building and started shooting, maybe nine or 10 times.''
Prosecutor John Kivlan then played the tape, letting jurors hear the sounds of shots and shattering glass from the two doors leading into the back of the building.
``He fired several rounds, lowered the rifle and jogged eastward toward his pickup truck - it was parked in a fire lane - and calmly drove off toward Little Creek Road,'' said Kenneth Raymond Harlan Jr., an arson investigator in Norfolk who was assigned to surveillance of the clinic.
Harlan radioed police and chased him. He was soon joined by several squad cars. Within minutes, Salvi had pulled to the side of the road, left his truck and raised his arms in surrender.
Norfolk police officer Robert McNeil was the first to reach Salvi after he emerged from the truck.
``He (Salvi) said, `I'm not mad at you,' '' McNeil said. ``I said, `Really, well, that's great. It makes me feel better. I'm glad you're not mad at me.' ''
McNeil said he was surprised when he looked at Salvi's driver's license.
``I looked at it and said `Hmm, wouldn't that be something if this was the same guy,' '' he said.
McNeil, Harlan and Long were among several witnesses who testified Thursday about Salvi's actions in the 24 hours after shootings at the Planned Parenthood and Preterm Health Services clinics.
Based on Thursday's testimony:
At 11:30 a.m., a little more than an hour after the fatal shootings, Salvi bought a black duffel bag at a K-Mart in Attleboro. The bag replaced the one Salvi had left at Preterm Health Services containing a handgun, rounds of ammunition and a receipt that would prove crucial to the investigation.
Just before 2 p.m., Salvi walked into Hair International Salon, off Interstate 95 in New London, Conn., and gave instructions to have his hair cut short.
``He told me, `Don't be afraid,' as in, `Don't be afraid to cut off too much hair,' '' hair stylist Duane Brown said.
At 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1994, the day after the killings, Salvi pulled into an Econolodge motel in Emporia, Va., nervously asked the night clerk for a room, and then demanded a new room because he was afraid people would come in through a ``trap door'' in the ceiling of the closet.
The ``trap door'' was a crawl space to the motel's attic. MEMO: This story was compiled from reports by The Boston Globe and the Patriot
Ledger News Service.
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FBI agent Michael Malone displays anti-abortion literature found in
the truck of John C. Salvi III after Salvi's arrest in Norfolk. He
testified Friday at Salvi's trial in Dedham, Mass.
KEYWORDS: TRIAL ABORTION CLINIC SHOOTINGS by CNB