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Volume CXI, Number 10
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 25, 1990
Student shot on Orchard Avenue
By Roger Tefft
City Editor
A university student was reported in stable condition after being shot in the leg Wednesday night about 50 yards from his apartment building, University Security officials said.
Charles Langenhagen, 24, a first-year graduate business student, was shot at about 10 p.m. by an unidentified assailant while returning home to Terrace Apartments from campus, said Lt. David Ritch, of security.
Hospital officials said the bullet frac-
In Brief
World: Romanians call for resignation of leadership ‘front’
BUCHAREST, Romania — Hundreds of protesters broke through lines of police and soldiers Wednesday and surged toward ' government headquarters, demanding the leadership resign and accusing it of being a front for Communist rule.
The crowd of about 1,000 people at Victory Square pushed through two lines of unarmed police and then through a line of armed soldiers who took no strong action to hold them back.
The army moved in tanks very slowly and the crowd retreated, still chanting “Communists in disguise!” and “Elections without the Front!” — a reference to the National Salvation Front’s plans to participate in elections May 20.
Nation: Millions more to be spent on drug war
WASHINGTON — The second phase of the National Drug Control Strategy, to be unveiled Thursday by President Bush, will call for spending more than $10 billion on the war against drugs in 1991, at least $1.2 billion more than this year, sources said Wednesday.
Money for the Pentagon’s effort to battle drugs would rise about 50 percent, from $880 million this year to $1.2 billion in fiscal 1991, a draft of the strategy said.
Congress has allocated about $8.8 billion for the drug war this fiscal year.
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tured Langenhagen's fibula and may have bruised a nerve. He was scheduled to have surgery this morning, said Carlos Alvarado, an emergency room physician at Queen of Angels / Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center.
"(The assailant) approached from behind. At this point in time, we don't know if he was black, white, green, yellow, from Mars or wherever," Ritch said.
"The descriptions, so far, have been so vague, even from the victim," he said.
Langenhagen dropped his backpack, apparently believing he was about to be
robbed, and told the suspect, "Here take it, 1 don't want to fight you," before fleeing across 29th Street, Ritch said.
The suspect pursued Langenhagen and fired nine rounds from a nine-millimeter gun, one of which pierced Langenhagen in the right calf, he said.
One eyewitness account described the incident.
"I saw the gunman shoot four shots while he was backing away down the alley. The student hid behind the cars and then ran along Orchard (Avenue) toward Terrace. It looked like he had a blue jack-
et on," said Lisa Cogan, a first-year graduate student in cinema.
The suspect then fled west toward Vermont Avenue, Ritch said.
Langenhagen ran to Terrace, at 2822 El-lendale PL, yelling "I'm hit. I'm hit," said Dave Faliszek, a first-year law student and Terrace resident.
A residential protection officer who was stationed at Terrace Apartments made the initial call to University Security, Ritch said.
(See Shooting, page 3)
Who invited the
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John Taylor, a 1986 USC graduate and lead singer of the band “The Uninvited,” performs at noontime concert in front of Tommy Trojan.
Force used by security questioned
By Dave Banks
Staff Writer
University Security officers allegedly used excessive and unnecessary force on a burglary suspect who was arrested three months ago, three witnesses have said. An internal investigation is expected to be finished soon, security officials said Wednesday.
Reginald Mabry, 25, was suspected of stealing student property from Harris Hall. The alleged beating incident occurred in the parking lot of Exposition Park's Armory Building on Nov. 30, after officers pursued Mabry across Exposition Boulevard.
Witnesses said at least five of the arresting officers kicked Mabry, hit him with their nightsticks and placed a chokehold on him while Mabry was strip-searched.
One witness said that Mabry was wearing handcuffs while the officers were striking him, and another witness said that Mabry's groin area was abused.
Steven Ward, executive director of University Security, confirmed that an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Mabry's arrest had been launched.
"We ordered an internal investigation when a non-USC person sent a letter to the station about the incident. There was a series of allegations by (one) person who claims to have witnessed the final part of the arrest. The investigation is just finishing up," Ward said.
The report will be submitted to Capt. Luther Lanier within a week, he said. Lanier will decide
(See Harassment, page 19)
Proby awaits trial for campus crimes
Defendant charged with kidnapping, rape, robbery and car theft
By Bill Swindell
Senior Staff Writer
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The trial of Deon Proby, the man accused of a crime spree that included kidnapping, rape and robbeiy committed against three university students and two univenity employees in 1988, was delayed again on Jan. 3, a court official said Wednesday.
Proby, who has been charged with the crimes committed on campus between
September and November in the fall of 1988, had his pretrial hearings moved back to Jan. 30, said Josephine Williams, a court clerk in the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building.
The 15 charges against him include two counts of kidnapping for the purpose of robbery, six counts of robbery, two counts of forced oral copulation, one count of rape with a foreign object, one count of rape and three counts of auto theft, said Andrew McMullen, the deputy district attorney trying Proby's case.
"If convicted on all counts, he's looking at two life terms plus 65 years for this case, and two life terms and 35 years in the San Femandc case," McMullen said.
The evidence against Proby looks good for a conviction, he said.
The case also involves a person not related to the university, McMullen said.
"We have a new public defender on the case, so it's difficult to get things going," he said.
"I'm hoping the trial (date) will be set during the next hearing," McMullen said.
Proby is charged with the Oct. 29, 1988 kidnapping and sexual battery of an unidentified female student from the Hill-view Apartments parking garage, • Williams said.
He also is charged with kidnapping a university student from the underground (See Proby, page 18)