Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.politics.usa.misc,talk.politics.misc
From: [an 35198] at [anon.penet.fi] ("White Dragon")
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:54:48 UTC
Subject: Gun Buyback Murder!


Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1994:

                 TURNED-IN GUN FIGURED IN KILLING
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A suspect said cash obtained by giving N.J. police a shotgun paid for the
murder weapon.
                                 *
The handgun used to kill a Pennsauken man last month was bought on the
street near a Camden police station with $50 that police had just paid for
an old shotgun during the county's gun amnesty program, a suspect has told
authorities.

Sources familiar with the investigation said that one of the teenagers
charged in the slaying of David Perry, 31, told authorities that the
shotgun was turned in at the ministation at 27th and Federal Streets on
January 26th.

With that money, according to the teenager, one or more of the three
suspects bought a .25 caliber handgun from a man who was about to enter the
police station-presumably to turn in the handgun.

The gun turn-in program ended that day.  Perry was slain two days later
with a .25 caliber semiautomatic as he walked to catch a bus to his job as
a nursing assistant in a Woodbury nursing home.

Charged in Perry's slaying are Sean Barge, 18, of the 200 block of 35th
St., and two 15-year-old boys, one from Camden and the other from Salem.

Three teenagers were standing on the corner of South 36th and Freemont
Streets in Camden at 4 a.m. on Jan. 28 when they decided to rob the next
person to walk by, investigators have said.

Perry was that person, investigators said. The teenagers fled empty-handed
to a nearby house, but police followed their footsteps in the icy slush and
arrested the three.  The handgun was recovered at the house, police said.

Edward F. Borden Jr.,  Camden County prosecutor, said last night that a
juvenile he would not identify told authorities the murder weapon was
bought with $50 after a possibly inoperable sawed-off shotgun was turned in
to authorities on January 26.

A law enforcement official familiar with the case said that the juvenile
was one of the three defendants in the slaying.

Borden said, "We have checked out the information and there were two
sawed-off shotguns turned in that day.  One was brought in by a woman and
the other was given to authorities by a man.  The names of the donors don't
match those of the people charged in the murder."

The prosecutor said, however, that it was "possible" that the juvenile had
turned in one of the two shotguns recieved that day.

People who turned in guns for $50 were not required to present
identification or to write in their names. Some even gave the name of
George D. Pugh, Camden's chief of police.

The prosecutor defended the gun amnesty program, saying it had helped cut
the number of guns on the streets.  "There are 35,000 guns manufactured in
the United States every day," Borden said.

Camden County was the first county in the state to initiate a guns-for cash
program.  It ran for 10 days last month.
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Somebody at the Inquirer has a sense of humor.  The rest of the text block
was filled with a blurb reading, "WHAT'S SO FUNNY?  INQUIRER COMICS every
day of the week and Sunday!"


... "Guns don't cause crime - crime causes gun control."
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