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Show Page Al2 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, November 20, 1998 Arrests ofjuveniles for murder Preliminary hearing set for Shepard murder suspect plunged by 16 percentlast year McKinneyis charged with first-degree By ROBERTW. BLACK By MICHAEL J. During the mid-1990s, Reno Associated Press Writer has had good newsto report. Arrests ofteen-agers for vio- WASHINGTON —Arre of young people for murd lent crimes plunged9.2 percent dropped 16 percent last y andjuvenilearrests forall violent crimes declined for the third year in a row, Attorney General Janet Reno announced Thursday, in 1996, following a dropof2.9 percent in 1995. Citing FBI figures, Reno told her weekly news conference LARAMIE, Wyo. — Gaycollegestudent Matthew Shepardwas beaten andtied to a fence by his attackers as theygrilled him for information so they could burglarize increase hisapartment, a prosecutor said Thursday. ‘As helay there bleeding andbeggingfor his life, he was then bound to the buck fence,” prosecutor Cal Rerucha told a packed courtroomas apreliminary hearing for Aaron James McKinneygot underway. McKinney and Russ Arthur Henderson, both 21, are accusedofkilling Shepard, a University of Wyomingstudent, between 1984 and 1993, when afterluring him out of a campus barto an Last year's 16 percent drop in juvenile murderarrests was the fourth annual decline for that category, It followed a 10.7 percent decline in 1996. This has been a sharp reversal from that 1997 saw juvenile arrests for all types of violent crime drop 4 percent from the previ the nile crime is not some: thing that wehave to accept as a wayoflife. We can bring these numbers down, and we are,” Reno told her weekly news con ference. “But there is sull much, much more that needs to be done. The problem has still not been solved “Many, many, many Americans de: arve the credit” been pummeledwith thebutt of¢ for the reversal, Reno said, “Chiefs of police and. sheriffs have joined others to ensure a head, and his hands were bound so tightly that a sheriff's deputy had difficulty cutting him free, Rerucha said vides he deputy) found what she thought was a 15-9 sar-old boy with severe head vention programs that work Mayors, other community lead. ers. representatives of the faith bike found Shepard, initially mistaking the She pointed out that juvenile crime has not yet declined to thelevels of 15 vears ago. But she expressed hope that, with 169 the percent juvenile murder peaked rate balanced program that pro fair effective, firm, along with preentorcemer community, the business sector continued effort, the downward have joined togetherto create safety net around children oa trend might “even be able to deal with the increase in the numbers” of young people credited children of the baby boom gen eration who will enter their crime-prone years over the nextfive to 10 years. Comprehensive crime statistics national are to be released this weekend. but, as shehas for several years, Reno extracted the vouth totals for advance attention More than any attorney general sin Robert F Kennedy, Reno has traveled vround the nation speaking on youth crime and calling for a balance between tougher penalties for wrongdo- ers andprevention programs to keep kids out of trouble and help young offenders return to murder, aggravated robbery and kidnap. ping with intent to inflict bodily injury or to terrorize the victim. The murdercharge carries a possible death sentence, but Reruchahas not indicated whetherhewill Associated Press Writer society, SNIF families at ris \cademie experts also have police efforts to take and keep guns from kids, a decline in violence between aging crack cocaine gangs and the use of tougher adult prison sentences for the most violent juvenile Reno praised the recent deci sion by Congress to provide $95 million sought by the Clinton administration for crime pre: vention programs for children at risk “More parents are working. More single isolated area outside town. Theslightly built Shepard, who iber at least partially, because he wasgay. McKinneyand Henderson lured Shepard from a campus’ bar Oct. 7 bytelling them they were gay and that they wantedtoget “better acquainted,” Reruchasaid. As they drove awayin McKinney's truck, McKinney pulled the handgun andsaid, “We're not | ale Magnum, suffered 18 blows to the injuries.” Rerucha said \ k the death penalty. Hendersonearlier waived his right to a preliminary hearing. He and McKinney are being held without bond. Rerucha and law enforcement officers outlined a timeline of the crime, which drew international attention because authorities believe Shepard wastargeted, student passing by on a mountain gay. and you're jacked,” Rerucha said. ED ANDRIESKI The Hearing: Aaron James McKinney, one of two menaccusedin the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard, waits for his preliminary hearing to begin in the Albany County district courtroomin Laramie, Wyo., on Thursday. s the prosecutor spoke, McKinney. sat nearly lifeless body for “a scarecrow or a dummy set there for Halloween jokes.” Shepard's blood-caked face had been quietly at partially washed clean by tears; he died five days later. at times during the hearing as she sat in the front row next to her husband, Dennis. a nearby table, showing no emo: tion. Shepard's mother, Judy, bowed her head Outside town, they “beat him for $20, your honor, the contents of the wallet,” Reruchasaid. McKinney and Henderson repeatedly grilled Shepard for information so- they could burglarize his apartment and then left him with the “constant Wyoming wind” as his companion, Reruchasaid. 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