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POLICE REPORT Each numbered symbol on the map represents a single crime that corresponds with the numbered descriptions in the list below it. DAY CRIMES f □ Violent crimes ■ \ NIGHT CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) Nonviolent crimes # y (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) □ O CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS Thursday, Sept. 6 D ASSAULT AND BATTERY, 1328 WHEAT ST. Charles S. Cox said he was assaulted by Daniel Sloope during a pick-up football game at the practice field behind Bates West Cox said he was interested in pursuing the case further. Cox refused medical attention for his injuries. Reporting officer: J.A. Henry. Friday, Sept. 7 ® LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1600 SENATE ST. Elizabeth J. Witherspoon said someone broke her driver’s side window, entered her vehicle and stole one Jensen CD player and 50 blank CDs. Total estimated value: $235. Reporting officers: M.P. Craska and J. Clarke. ® ATTEMPTED GRAND LARCENY OF MOTOR VEHICLE, 1600 SENATE ST. Melissa L. Kolmar said someone attempted to remove the ignition switch from her car for the purpose of stealing the vehicle. The car sustained minor damage. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock. Sunday, Sept. 9 O ATTEMPTED GRAND LARCENY OF MOTOR VEHICLE, 1501 PENDLETON ST. Gilbert J. Kerwin said he observed someone exit Shannan K. Ring’s vehicle and flee. Ring said no one had permission to use the vehicle and reports nothing missing. The suspect broke the driver’s window and damaged the dashboard in an attempt to start the vehicle without the keys. The car sustained moderate damage. Reporting officer: J. Clarke. ® LARCENY OF MICROWAVE, 1323 WHALEY ST. John Morgan said he found the doors to USC Energy Services (Energy South) unsecured and open. He noticed a Sharp carousel microwave oven had been taken. Estimated value: $100. Reporting officers: R.L. Osbourne and J.R. Merrill. 0 MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1423 WHALEY ST. Lisa A. Greiber said someone removed her steering wheel from its post and left it hanging. The vehicle was left unsecured. Estimated damage: $500. Reporting officers: J.R. Merrill and R. L. Osbourne. © ATTEMPTED GRAND LARCENY OF MOTOR VEHICLE, 1600 SENATE ST. Josh Black said someone broke his driver’s side window and tried to steal his vehicle by breaking open the steering column. An unknown cell phone was recovered and placed into evidence. Black said various CDs were stolen. Total estimated value: $300. ® ATTEMPTED GRAND LARCENY OF MOTOR VEHICLE, 1501 PENDLETON ST. Bethany M. Matheny said someone damaged her driver’s side window and entered the vehicle. The reporting officer found damage to the front dash and steering column made in an attempt to start the vehicle without keys. Reporting officer: C.N. Ettenger. Monday, Sept. 10 Q AUTO BREAK-IN/LARCENY OF MONEY, BLATT PE CENTER E-2 LOT Kanika L. McAlpine said someone broke out the driver’s side window of her car and stole various coins. Estimated value: $8. Reporting officer: M. L. Gooding. Tuesday, Sept. 11 ® ASSAULT AND BATTERY HIGH AGGRAVATED NATURE, 601 SUMTER ST Antoney M. Parker was visiting Alicia Kirkland when an altercation took place in Kirkland's room. Parker was struck on the head and bleach was thrown in his eyes. Kirkland received bums on her arm from the iron she struck Parker with. Kirkland was transported to the Baptist Medical Center for treatment. The investigation continues. Reporting officer: G. S. Whitlock. Consumers line up for gasoline “We are asking all of our customers to maintain their normal buying habits. We have ample supplies. We’re trying to avoid an artificial shortage.” TOM CIRIGLIANO EXXONMOBIL SPOKESMAN BY BRAD FOSS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) - Anxious consumers in various parts of the country lined up for an hour or more to fuel up on gasoline cost ing as much as $5 a gallon amid fears supplies would be disrupt ed following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. As gasoline wholesalers and retailers quickly raised prices, the nation’s largest oil companies immediately tried to allay con sumers’ worries by freezing then prices and pledging to keep dis tribution steady. Panic caused by rumors of a pending gasoline shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Michigan and other states. The R and L Texaco in Oklahoma City increased the price of unleaded gasoline to $5 a gallon after a supplier told owner Lewis Pfenninger it was unclear when the next shipment would be available and at what price. At the Sunshine Conoco in Springfield, Mo., gas prices were raised after the attacks by 40 cents a gallon to $1.99 a gallon. In California, gasoline whole salers raised prices by as much as 20 cents a gallon on supply fears, although traders said there was no evidence of a shortage. ExxonMobil and BP sought to calm energy markets. The com panies said supplies would not be hampered — except around New York City. The companies tried to reassure consumers that there was no need to stockpile gasoline. “We are asking all of our cus tomers to maintain their normal buying habits,” ExxonMobil spokesman Tom Cirigliano said late Tuesday. “We have ample supplies. We’re trying to avoid an artificial shortage.” But as distribution terminals closed down around the country for security reasons and mo torists worried there wouldn’t be enough fuel, gasoline prices rose almost immediately in parts of the Midwest. Prices had already been soar ing in the Midwest because of dis tribution bottlenecks that were in effect long before Tuesday’s catastrophe. “It’s supply and demand,” said Pfenninger, owner of the Texaco station in Oklahoma City where gas sold for $5 a gallon. “My lines were so long.” Pfenninger said he could have sold out his supply at that price, but decided to close early. He said he would reconsider the price hike on Wednesday. In Tulsa, Brandon Disney waited in his car at the pumps at a QuickTrip store. “I’m just filling up, so I don’t have to fight anybody to get gas if there is a shortage,” he said Added Tulsa Police Sgt Wayne Allen: “We’re having to assign of ficers to convenience stores to di rect traffic and break up fights.” Authorities in various states were investigating instances of price-gouging, while Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove declared a state of emergency, which will al low prosecutors to pursue price gougers there. Mississippi authorities said they had received reports of gas prices doubling to as much as $3.60 a gallon within hours. Rumors of spiraling prices spread rapidly. “We got an e-mail from Oklahoma City saying gas was over $6 a gallon,” Ronda Hunter said while waiting for gas at a Phillips 66 in Topeka, Kan. “The news said it was jumping to $4 a gallon. Is this madness or what?” Greg Seiter, a spokesman at the AAA Hoosier Motor Club in Indiana, said his office has re ceived reports of prices rising to $3 and $4 a gallon in parts of Indiana — including Anderson, Bloomington and Indianapolis — in the wakfc of the attacks. “Obviously that’s a reaction to the events of this morning. What happened immediately after (the attacks) was the price of crude oil in overseas trading climbed sud denly,” Seiter said. The AAA’s national office is urging retailers not to impose large price increases. Nationwide, the retail price of unleaded gasoline is $1.54 a gallon. Tom Kloza, director of Oil Price Information Service, a Lakewood, N.J., publisher of oil industry data, said he expects pe troleum companies to act with re straint in the face of intense mar ketplace jitters. “To be raising prices freneti cally in this atmosphere makes the entire situation more diffi cult,” he said. “The last thing the American public needs to think about right now is that they need to be racing out to load up on ftiel.” SOUTH CAROLINA MOURNS Rags fly half-staff atop the State House in a gesture of sympathy for all victims of Tuesday’s attacks and their families. All federal buildings remain open, but under high security. In a press conference Tuesday at the State House, Gov. Jim Hodges activated the State Emergency Operation Center and put the S.C. National Guard on standby, saying “I call on every South Carolinian to pray for the thousands of Americans who have lost their lives today.” PHOTO BY JASON BECKNELL Blood Drive Students turn out for blood drive CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 McNamara from City Year, were also giving blood. By 5 p.m. the American Red Cross had already received about 300 donors, and they planned to stay open four more hours. Typically, the Red Cross has about 50 donors a day. Ray Borders Gray, marketing and communications director at the American Red Cross of Central South Carolina, said today was one of the busiest days the organi zation has had in a while. Students wishing to donate blood are recommended to show up early to avoid longer lines. Also, make sure you are at least 17 years old, 110 pounds, and have eaten a good breakfast before you donate. Bring a picture ID and your so cial security card. The American Red Cross is located at 2751 Bull St. They will also be receiving do nations at the South Carolina Judicial Center on Wednesday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Thursday they will be at Lexington Medical Center from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and the Vista Commons from 3 p.m.-7 p.m. Trade Center Chaos prevails in Manhattan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 fire jumping from buildings, came the rescue. A few blocks away from the World Trade Center, about 120 doctors and people with medical training traveled in a convoy of pickup trucks, ambulances, a dump truck and SUVs toward the wreckage. Their job: To find survivors and try to save them. Paramedics waiting to be sent into the rubble were told that “once the smoke clears, it’s go ing to be massive bodies,” ac cording to Brian Stark, an ex Navy paramedic who volun teered to help. Ad-hoc medical crews formed to accept blood do nations. Barbara Kalvig raced to a triage center with a car full of colleagues from the New York Veterinarians Hospital. “We closed the hospital and brought a bunch of doctors and nurses,” Kalvig said. “We just drove as far as we could.” Nearby, a construction crew hauled two-by-fours and ply wood* to the emergency teams to be used as makeshift stretchers. Craig Senzon, 29, a neurolo gist volunteering at the triage center said of rescuers, “We felt a heaviness inside us that none of us have ever felt before.” Before rescuers were mobi lized, scenes of horror unfolded around the devastated buildings. “Everyone was screaming, crying, running - cops, people, firefighters, everyone,” said Mike Smith, a fire marshal from Queens, recovering at the foun tain outside a state courthouse, shortly after the second tower collapsed. Workers from the Trade Center offices wandered lower Manhattan in a daze. Looking down West Broadway, brown and black smoke billowed. Ash, two inches deep, covered the streets. Police and firefighters gasped for air as they emerged from the sealed-off area. At least three ex plosions were heard, perhaps from gas lines. Kenny Johannemann, a jani tor, described seeing a man en gulfed in flames at One World Trade Center just after the first explosion. He grabbed the man, put the fire out and dragged him outside. Then Johannemann heard a second explosion - and saw people jumping from the upper stories of the twiyi towers. “It was horrendous,” Johann emann said. Donald Burns, 34, was being evacuated from a meeting on the 82nd floor of one World Trade Center tower when he saw four severely burned people on the stairwell. “I tried to help them but they didn’t want anyone to touch them. The fire had melted their skin. Their clothes were tattered,” he said. Boris Ozersky, 47, a computer networks analyst, was on the 70th floor of one of the buildings when he felt an explosion rock it. He raced down 70 flights of stairs and then outside, where people assembled in a mob in front of a nearby hotel. He was trying to calm a panicked woman when the building sud denly collapsed. “I just got blown somewhere, and then it was total darkness. We tried to get away, but I was blown to the ground. And I was trying to help this woman, but I couldn’t find her in the dark ness,” Ozersky said. After the dust cleared, he located her. As most people fled the area, others were drawn to it, desper ate for information about friends and relatives who worked there. “I don’t know what to do,” a weeping Alan Rivera said, stand ing behind barricades, hoping for word about his niece, who worked in the Trade Center. "I can’t get through to her on the phone.... No one can tell me anything.” Nearby a crowd mobbed a man on a pay phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Throughout lower Manhattan, rescue workers and police offi cers wore surgical masks to pro tect them from the dust. At the city’s hospitals, hun dreds lined up to give blood, af ter hospital workers yelled on the streets, “Blood donations! Blood donations!” Thousands fled the city, stream ing across the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges on foot, some sobbing, others covered head-to toe in gray soot and ashes. With no buses, taxis or sub ways, the throng was left with no way home. “How do I get to Queens?” a woman shouted. “Start walking,” a police offi cer yelled back. Businessmen who’d walked across the Brooklyn Bridge had stripped to the waist, their but ton-down shirts pressed over their faces. Passing cell phones back and forth when the rare call went through, desperate strangers called to each other, “Can you get out?” A woman pleaded, “Can you call my mother? This is her num ber.” Investigation Osama bin Laden suspected in attacks CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 said the flight attendant reported her fellow attendants had been stabbed, the cabin had been taken over, and they were going down in New York. Attorney General John Ashcroft confirmed the American Airlines Flight ll that left Boston for Los Angeles “was hijacked by suspects armed with knives.” The stories of these cell phone callers matched those of a call ap parently made aboard a plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania around the same time. Officials be lieved that plane was hijacked and was turning around from its planned West Coast destination, possibly headed toward the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or the U.S. Capitol in Washington, officials said. An emergency dispatcher re ceived a cell phone call saying he was a passenger locked in a bath room aboard United Flight 93, his plane was being hijacked and it was going down. The dispatcher heard an explosion and the cell phone call ended, officials said. U.S. officials said there was ear ly information tying the attacks to bin Laden, a wealthy Arab be lieved to be living in Afghanistan who previously has been tied to terrorist attacks against Americans overseas. But they cau tioned it was too early to defini tively assign blame. The Taliban, Afghanistan’s rul ing Islamic militia, said bin Laden lacks the resources for such a ter rorist attack. f eaerai law enforcement officials were studying manifests for pas sengers, crew or service personnel with possible links to bin Laden. The government unleashed le gions of intelligence and law en forcement experts to begin identi fying those who planned and car ried out the attacks. "Thousands of FBI agents in field offices and international le gal offices are cooperating in this investigation," Attorney General John Ashcroft said. He said nu merous federal law enforcement agencies were aiding the effort. Investigators face a monumen tal task, especially in New York, where two hijacked planes plowed into the World Trade Center tow ers. Sifting through the rubble, which yielded key clues in the Oklahoma City bombing, will be extremely difficult because of the amount of debris. anomer plane crasnea into tne Pentagon near Washington, col lapsing one side of the building, and a fourth airliner crashed in a field 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Security analysts said the crash site in Pennsylvania could be a source of quick clues if the plane’s black box can be located. “Some of the first clues will come from the plane,” said Eugene Poteat, a retired CIA intelligence officer. The black box, which cap tures instrument readings and recordings from the flight deck, may have captured voices of those who crashed the plane.