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TUKWILA, Wash. -- Police sought a young gunman Sunday after a shooting the day before at a busy Seattle area mall left one teenager dead and another seriously injured. At least four people were detained and questioned after the shooting Saturday afternoon at Southcenter Mall, police officer Mike Murphy said. Murphy said the shooting stemmed from a fight between two groups of people and may have been gang-related. The 240-store mall reopened Sunday with a more visible security force.
1 Slain, 2 Badly Hurt at Church
CLIFTON, N.J. -- Police are looking for Joseph M. Pallipurath of Sacramento, who they say fatally shot his estranged wife during services at a New Jersey church and badly injured two other people. Officials say about 200 people were inside St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton during the shooting. Capt. Robert Rowan said Reshma James, 24, died at a hospital. Two other people are listed in critical condition with wounds to the head. James had recently moved from California to escape an abusive marriage, Rowan said.
Army School Opponents Hopeful
COLUMBUS, Ga.-- Demonstrators opposed to a school for Latin American military and government leaders on a Georgia Army base say they hope a new president or more sympathetic Congress will close it. School of Americas Watch protests each November to mark the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador. A United Nations panel concluded that some of the killers had attended the school, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
-- From Staff Reports and News Services
