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Show v The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Saturday, August 3.1996 A6 Women Choose to Take Children on Suicides Hamtramck,said Sharon Jordan, a spokeswoman at Detroit Receiv- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS face downin the water along the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — A 5-year-old boy managedtoescape, but his brother drowned in the Detroit River whentheir suicidal mother appar- shoreof Belle Isle, an island park in the river. The mother was pulled from the river andtakento _the hospital, Jordan said WINTERSET, lowa — Lorrie Shepherd had cancer, was inthe middleof a divorce and was fighting a losing battle with her hus- died Friday The 6-year-old boy was found The 5-year-old “was unharmed band over custody of their two physically and can tell us what happened. But he's certainly con- mommy do this? the Detroit Free Press quoted a police officer was despondent over financial young children. She responded by furiously spray painting the inside of her rural Madison County home, stringing a hose from her pickup’s exhaust into the passenger compartment, piling in with the children andstarting the engine. “It's asinine,” said neighbor “take the kids with her.” police said. The woman He keeps asking, ‘Why did as saying The boy walked into a police station Thursdayand told officers “his mother was trying to pull h into the water,” police Officer Otis Milhousesaid. fused.” the source said The source added the woman problems. Homicideinvestigators said the woman took her two sons by the hand and walked off Belle Isle into the river. But when the water broke away and struggled back to Mike Pickett. “Lorrie had troubles. There’s no doubt aboutthat, and maybeshefelt she had to do theisland's shore. something to herself.” reached the 5-year-old’s chest, he WASHINGTON — Pressed by President Clinton, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman Shepherd, 27, was found dead was rescued but died at a hospital ently decided to ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “But to do semething like that to children — there's no explanation for something like that.” Wife With Cancer Kills Self, 2 Kids Son Escapes River; Mom,Brother Die ing Hospital, where the woman Croatian Leader to Aid Bosnians agreed Friday to recognize the election in the city of Mostar and to remove it as a stum- Wednesday inside the locked truck with the body of her 20- month-old son, Jordan Jurgensen, in her lap. Next to her sat the body of 3-year-old daughter Hajjan Jurgensen. The children bling block to the creation ofa cor Boaniaa Foderation A ‘Tudjman also agreedto integrate purely Croatian police sonsaid. Implementation of the Mostar elections, in which Muslim candidates wona 19-18 major- weren't buckled in and there was no sign of a struggle. Sheriff Paul Weich had been called to the one-story house by the children’s father, Wayne Jurgensen, who was concerned about the welfare of his children. “She had not taken the kids to day care and she missed some appointments, which wasn't normal for her,” Welch said. “Wayne was forces and city councils into the federation with Bosnia’s Muslim citizens. Agreement on the Mostar elections was reached during discussions at the State De- ity on the city council, was an important hurdle because manyCroatians refused to accept the results. U.S. and European mediators feared that refusing to honor the election results in Mostar could encowrage parties to reject results considered unsatisfactory in the elections to be held in Bosnia in mid-September. partment. 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