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Federal prosecutors in the case of a man charged with barging into the Capitol last month and killing two police officers tried to force the man's parents to appear before a grand jury, a lawyer for the family said Wednesday. Russell Eugene Weston Jr.'s parents were ordered to appear today in federal court, where a grand jury could indict their son for murder. The family immediately hired lawyers to fight the subpoenas, said Henry Asvill, who represents Weston's father.

FBI agents found spy handbooks, a diagram, ammunition and guns in the mountain cabin of the man accused of killing two police officers in a shootout at the Capitol, court documents unsealed in Washington, D.C., show. Meanwhile, Russell Eugene Weston Jr.'s lawyer argued that his client is in no shape to appear in court. Weston is charged with killing federal police officers and could face the death penalty if convicted.

The parents and other relatives of a former mental patient charged with killing two Capitol guards laid out for a grand jury Thursday the suspect's history of mental illness, oddball beliefs and fear of the federal government. Prosecutors are seeking a murder indictment against Russell E. Weston Jr. in the July 24 deaths of the two officers inside a crowded Capitol hallway.

The family of the man charged in the shooting deaths of two Capitol police officers won a delay in Thursday's scheduled testimony to a grand jury that could indict their son, their lawyers said. Lawyers for Russell Eugene Weston Jr.'s parents, sister and brother-in-law challenged the surprise subpoenas issued this week as the family visited the hospitalized Weston for the first time since the Capitol shootings.

One week after being gunned down on the job, Capitol Police Officer Jacob J. Chestnut was buried with honors Friday at Arlington National Cemetery after a funeral service of solemn pageantry and effusive praise. About 3,500 mourners, including Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), FBI Director Louis J. Freeh and countless police officers from around the nation, attended the service in suburban Maryland.

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Gary L. Abrecht says it almost in a whisper, as if voicing it softly can somehow soften the blow: "Thirteen seconds, that's right. Just 13 seconds." In 13 seconds on July 24, a gunman "irrevocably changed" the U.S. Capitol Police, said Abrecht, who until recently could not bring himself to discuss the day two longtime officers were shot to death inside the U.S. Capitol. Russell Eugene Weston Jr. has been charged with the killings of Det. John M.

Wounded in last week's shootout in the Capitol, Angela Dickerson dived for the floor, but she says she saw enough in the chaos around her to identify the gunman who killed two police officers. "Considering all that happened, I truly did come out the lucky one," Dickerson said Thursday in her first public remarks on last week's gunfire. "I only wish that there were three surviving victims instead of just me," she said. "May God bless you."

On freeway overpasses, they waved tiny flags as the long funeral cortege passed. On the road below, they pulled over and climbed out of their cars, placing their hands over their hearts. On the streets of a grieving capital, small children were hoisted onto their parents' shoulders to watch this last journey of a hero they never knew. And on a sultry summer afternoon Thursday, beneath the shade of a red maple tree at Arlington National Cemetery, slain Capitol Police Det. John M.

In early 1996, the man now accused of fatally shooting two Capitol police officers earned himself a place on an exclusive list. After Russell Eugene Weston Jr. repeatedly threatened President Clinton in conversations with friends and acquaintances, Secret Service agents appeared on his doorstep to figure out whether he had the means to make good on his boasts.

A grateful, mourning nation bade an extraordinary farewell to two slain Capitol policemen Tuesday, as throngs of dignitaries and tourists paid their respects to Pvt. 1st Class Jacob J. Chestnut and Det. John M. Gibson in the Capitol's Rotunda. During the day and into the evening, thousands of citizens and police officers from near and far filed somberly past the flag-draped caskets of the two men, who now join the pantheon of heroes accorded America's highest posthumous honor.