Shootings New Jersey

At least five people were hurt, including a 21-year-old woman shot in the leg, when a fight broke out between Atlantic City youths Saturday at halftime of a national high school basketball tournament game between Mater Dei of Santa Ana, Calif., and Atlantic City High, authorities said Sunday. None of the players were involved in the fight or injured. A crowd of about 1,350 people had packed the Holy Spirit High School gymnasium for the Seagull tournament game.

A military police reservist shot and wounded two soldiers at Ft. Dix, then fled the base and shot two police officers before police killed him, authorities said Friday. The gunman had been told this week he would be relieved of duty pending a psychological evaluation, base spokesman Kryn Westhoven said. Two military police officers accompanied the man to clean out his locker Friday afternoon, he said. The gunman grabbed a .38-caliber rifle, shot one officer and fled.

A would-be robber and an armored car guard traded gunfire inside a Deptford shopping mall, killing one shopper and injuring another. The gunman also was killed and the guard was in critical condition. Shoppers ran screaming for the exits and took cover inside stores after the bullets sprayed across the second floor of the mall, in an atrium near an entrance to a bank. Caught in the cross-fire were a man who was dead at the scene and a 15-year-old girl who was wounded.

A military police reservist shot and wounded two soldiers at Ft. Dix, then fled the base and shot two police officers before police killed him, authorities said. The gunman had been told this week he would be relieved of duty pending a psychological evaluation, base spokesman Kryn Westhoven said. Two military police officers accompanied the man to clean out his locker, he said. The gunman grabbed a .38-caliber rifle, shot one of the officers and ran off.

A man shot an unarmed security guard in the eye, then escaped with a bag containing about $400,000 at Merv Griffin's Resorts Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, police said. Meanwhile, a second man grabbed another bag containing about $600,000 from the cart being wheeled by guard Sharon McGovern and ran in another direction. The second man was apprehended, sources told Associated Press. McGovern, 54, was in critical condition at a Philadelphia hospital. He had worked for the casino since 1980.

A military police reservist shot and wounded two soldiers at Ft. Dix, then fled the base and shot two police officers before police killed him, authorities said Friday. The gunman had been told this week he would be relieved of duty pending a psychological evaluation, base spokesman Kryn Westhoven said. Two military police officers accompanied the man to clean out his locker Friday afternoon, he said. The gunman grabbed a .38-caliber rifle, shot one officer and fled.

An armed passenger tried to hijack a Greyhound bus heading to Atlantic City casinos Sunday but was shot and critically wounded by the driver after they tumbled from the moving bus, an official said. Another of the 43 passengers brought the slowly moving bus to a stop, said Bill Kula, a Greyhound Lines Inc. spokesman in Dallas.

A military police reservist shot and wounded two soldiers at Ft. Dix, then fled the base and shot two police officers before police killed him, authorities said. The gunman had been told this week he would be relieved of duty pending a psychological evaluation, base spokesman Kryn Westhoven said. Two military police officers accompanied the man to clean out his locker, he said. The gunman grabbed a .38-caliber rifle, shot one of the officers and ran off.

John Emil List, a churchgoing accountant who escaped capture for more than 17 years after killing five members of his family, was found guilty Thursday of five counts of first-degree murder. After nine hours of deliberation, a jury in Elizabeth, N.J., apparently rejected List's defense that a mental defect had caused him to shoot his wife, mother and three teen-age children in 1971.

Does parenting really matter? When Judith Rich Harris published a book late last year arguing that it did not, she mostly drew cries of outrage and disbelief. Then came the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo. The massacre carried out by two adolescents from families with no apparent signs of dysfunction startled child-development experts.

A would-be robber and an armored car guard traded gunfire inside a Deptford shopping mall, killing one shopper and injuring another. The gunman also was killed and the guard was in critical condition. Shoppers ran screaming for the exits and took cover inside stores after the bullets sprayed across the second floor of the mall, in an atrium near an entrance to a bank. Caught in the cross-fire were a man who was dead at the scene and a 15-year-old girl who was wounded.

A man shot an unarmed security guard in the eye, then escaped with a bag containing about $400,000 at Merv Griffin's Resorts Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, police said. Meanwhile, a second man grabbed another bag containing about $600,000 from the cart being wheeled by guard Sharon McGovern and ran in another direction. The second man was apprehended, sources told Associated Press. McGovern, 54, was in critical condition at a Philadelphia hospital. He had worked for the casino since 1980.

An armed passenger tried to hijack a Greyhound bus heading to Atlantic City casinos Sunday but was shot and critically wounded by the driver after they tumbled from the moving bus, an official said. Another of the 43 passengers brought the slowly moving bus to a stop, said Bill Kula, a Greyhound Lines Inc. spokesman in Dallas.

John Emil List, a churchgoing accountant who escaped capture for more than 17 years after killing five members of his family, was found guilty Thursday of five counts of first-degree murder. After nine hours of deliberation, a jury in Elizabeth, N.J., apparently rejected List's defense that a mental defect had caused him to shoot his wife, mother and three teen-age children in 1971.

At least five people were hurt, including a 21-year-old woman shot in the leg, when a fight broke out between Atlantic City youths Saturday at halftime of a national high school basketball tournament game between Mater Dei of Santa Ana, Calif., and Atlantic City High, authorities said Sunday. None of the players were involved in the fight or injured. A crowd of about 1,350 people had packed the Holy Spirit High School gymnasium for the Seagull tournament game.