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Show CsSeil SMiiQ Mm Btft oeo Bo FepptiGH By TOM BUSSELBERG What should've been a perfect day before Christmas Eve in northern Utah turned out to be somewhat of a nightmare for some residents, one they probably won't soon be able to erase from their minds. THE SHOOTING spree (see related article in this issue) is-sue) staged by a Kansas City, Mo. man and an as-of-yet unidentified companion touched the lives of more than a score of Davis and Weber County residents, injuring some and, at best, terrifying others to the point they may be afraid to answer their door or have difficulty falling into a peaceful sleep, at least for a while. Among those was Mrs. Paul Arave of Hooper, Weber County. She was up Saturday with her four-year-old daughter when the pair came to the door. Her daughter vividly remembers the scene, Mrs. Arave said. "She saw them come through the front door with their guns and at night she says she can hear someone coming in and is afraid during the day." HER HUSBAND works nights and wasn't there during the approximately 20 minute ordeal. He returned to work Tuesday night but Mrs. Arave said Weber County Sheriffs deputies have closely watched the area and have been very cooperative. Here is how she pieced together her part in the affair: 'They pulled their truck up clear by the barn where the dog was tied up and he came up (the escapee) and asked if he could use the phone. I said that if he had the number I could call but he reached for the screen door. I locked the big door and ran and the first thing I thought of was the guns." BUT BEFORE she knew it, the man was yelling for '.'everyone to "get-out here, all I want is something to get away from here," Mrs. Arave said. She had misplaced her keys although the man didn't believe her and finally they let him have the keys to their 17-year-old son's car, in which he and his companion fled. "All I kept asking was, 'Please don't hurt my kids'," she said. "He didn't know how to load the guns and must've been hurt at the time but he hid that very well." Her son showed the man how to load it and then he told the family to sit on the couch and not to move. "1 JUST thank the Lord they left like they did," she said. "This man on the loose is very irrational. They seemed like they had done this (this type of thing) before. They knew what they were doing and just . demolished the door." Her son had just purchased the 1972 Buick and still has $250 owing on it, Mrs. Arave said. As things looked early Tuesday, insurance wouldn't give much -help since coverage includes only liability and it looked as though the badly damaged car would be impounded to obtain evidence for up to three weeks by the Utah Highway Patrol. -'' ' ' "THEY TOLD Troy (Mrs. Arave's son) that he would have to pay for each day the car is impounded," she said. 'They took it to pieces and ripped out the air conditioning, condition-ing, lights on the inside and seats." But she does have a bright side. ."My aunt, said this ought to be the best Christmas as far as being thankful to be alive." ' HELD BY gunmen for eight hours were members of the Dean Wilcox family of 1000 W. 2700 S. in Layton. Of that ordeal, we were able to obtain little in relation to feelings held by family members. Mrs. Wilcox said her attorney requested she not talk any further about the incident because it might influence later court proceedings. All she would say is that they were thankful to be alive and in spite of it all, Christmas did come to the family for their three daughters, Shana, 7; Meka, 3; and Deana, eight months. ANOTHER PARTICIPANT in the drama was Davis County Sheriff William "Dub" Lawrence, who has only about a week before his term expires as chief county law officer. He received a small cut to an ear, but his chief deputy, Jan Cunningham, seated in a patrol car beside him, was knocked unconscious by a 30 06 gunshot. The two law officers were in pursuit of a truck used by the pair traveling east on 1700 S. in Clearfield. The two vehicles "met" each other east of Highway 84 not far from Davis North Medical Center. THE TRUCK was going about 80 miles an hour and fired seven to eight rounds before crossing the bridge at the Freeport Center, Sheriff Lawrence said. "As we topped the bridge, we began to accelerate and said we were going to take him. There was a chopper (helicopter) above us." . They crossed Highway 84 and approached Davis North Medical Center when Deputy Cunningham rolled down his window to fire and was shot by the truck occupants. "Jan was down cold, he was unconscious. We took him to the emergency room where I was for five to seven minutes when he started coming around," the sheriff said. THE SINGLE bullet entered the deputy's forehead but exited the rear of his head. The deputy was able to spend Christmas at home with his family. Sheriff Lawrence said. As that was happening, things were coming to a head as the men fled the truck and one was reportedly captured cap-tured by "four to five residents who caught him (Pan-nell) (Pan-nell) and flogged him down and alerted East Layton Police," Sheriff Lawrence said. This account had not been confirmed with East Layton Police as of Tuesday afternoon. MEANWHILE, the sheriff said officers were working on several leads. One of those would suppose the duo are escaped murderers from a Savannah, Ga. prison. "Those men have been out about a month and we're trying to confirm that," he said. "One of them is a fugitive from Logan. We picked up a birth certificate and obituary buried at the Wilcox residence that were torn up that said something about a man named Porter. Several weapons were also recovered. . Arraignment was held Tuesday afternoon in circuit court in Clearfield. Mr. Pannell is being held on five counts, including two each for aggravated assault, two for aggravated robbery and one for aggravated kidnapping. kidnap-ping. Bail has been set at $50,000, $10,000 for each count, a court official said. - THE MAN requested a preliminary hearing and that will be scheduled within 10 days, the official said. He also asked for a court-appointed attorney and was being held in the Davis County Jail in lieu of the bail. |