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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.