?Brandon M iller Jackie Miller Three Toddlers Drown were pronounced dead. Davis said that prior to the inci dent, a group of children had been swimming in the pool. After they left, Brandon and Jackie were left inside the house with Monique and Avan. They managed to get to the pool while Monique was watching television/Davis said. Relatives couldn't reach Fredrinna Miller because her phone was off the hook; Avan had to call a neighbor, who told her the bad news. "I told her she must be joking," she said. "I started out the back door and lost everything I had on hurrying out." Fredrinna said Jackie appeared last Thursday night in a dream. "Seems like she was trying to tell me something. She couldn't talk yet, but it seems like she was trying to tell me to love Monique," she said. Tyrecee Davis fronrpage A1 Earl Davis, the grandfather of the boy that drowned three days later, said he was living a "night mare.'' "I only wish it was a dream," he said. His wife, Devora, told him that she and two friends were on the patio in the backyard while a 3 year-old grandson and Tyrecee played near the above-ground pool. Moments later, Devora looked and saw the child floating in the pool. Two Men Dead from page A1 . thing to do with people's business." The violence that exploded when 50 to 100 people were party - ? ing at a"drink house" ? a rented dwelling at the end of the street that dead-ends at U.S. 52 where week end drinking and loud music are a regular occurrence ? has aston ished and saddened members of the ? community. "I think it's awful; something needs to be done about it. They just started returning during the last two ? months, but it has never been this bad," said another neighbor. Although she was frightened by Sunday's killings, 67-year-old Izora T; Glenn said it's too late for her to move to safer surroundings She said she has lived there for 33 years. '1 Cn'f Relievp 111 "We are a church-going com munity anb this.* They 're no* our age group and are not ouf type of people," she said, referring to the young party. "There were just droves of them running down the street I thought, wouldn't it have been wonderful if they were coming from church instead of from a place that caused two people 10 lose their lives. That's sad." At the Samuels' household, a different kind of sadness has invaded the lives^ of the close-knit family.-Steven Samuels, affection ately known as "Steve," was the youngest of three boys and one girl. Those closest to him still cannot believe that their little brother is dead. "I don't really know what hap pened. It's just mad.. The police haven't told us anything," said his cousin, Alonzo Tart, 21. "We were like brothers. I still can t believe it happened." sister-in-law: "My first thought is that I hope the guys who did it are punished. He was easy-going and devoted to his son." The Samuels clan has a large number of cousins, uncles and aunts who live in Winston-Salem and neighboring cities. The family does ?not distinguish between its mem bers, who act as sisters and broth ers. There is a consensus that Stephen, a brother to them all, will -be -greatly missed, "When they called, it was 4Oh no, not Steve,' " said Michael K. Howell, Steven's uncle. "If they knew who they killed, they would be very sorry." "1 still have a ways to go," said Ethel Samuels, Stephen's mother. "I feel numb like I have nothing inside. My body won't move with me anymore." , V Steven, a 1989 graduate of Mt. - TaborHigh School , played football and basketball. He built the stylish, two end tables and coffee table that sit in the living room at his mother's home. He occasionally played the piano in his church. He decided not to follow the path of his ^wo older brothers, who have both served in the military. "Steve never liked to follow orders from anyone but his family. He was real soft-hearted. He took his son everywhere with him. All of my boys are quiet and easy. I have a lot of love to give. I have been blessed with sweet children," said his mother. 'A Wild Shimtinp' The mood was also somber at the home of "Tiger" Bitting's cousin, where family members from out of town and Winston-Salem have gathered to grieve the loss of a the wrong place at the wrong time. "It was just a wild shooting that went down," said Gloria Bitting, - Waddeli^mother, who lives in Raleigh. "I still don't know what happened." Waddell's grandmother, Gwen dolyn Sorell, who also lives in Raleigh, said she considered him a son. While Waddell was living with her along with his two brothers in Raleigh, she worked two jobs to put him and his older brother through high school. "My blood pressure went up; I won't be right for a long time. He was my favorite grandboy. They should tear the house down," she . said, referring to the weekend hang out that will be forever scarred with the memory of the two victims. "He was a good guy,H said Constance Jacobs, who described Waddell as a "favorite cousin." "He didn't carry any g\?ns or knives,'' shfcfcaid. For CIStol Young, the young man's aunt, the incident has been twice as painful, since she actually, saw her nephew's dead body at the scene of the crime. ~trharbeen Holland,' "^he said. "I was there when they put his body in the body bag. He had tear stains on his face like he had been beg ging for his life." Waddell's death does not only affect the lives of his relatives. The unidentified neighbor who saw the body of the murdered young man upon her neighbor's porch also grieves for the victim of a senseless killing. "He was a very nice kid; never causcd anyone no harm," she said. "He was a character, fun and nice. Womble to Run from page A1 tarial staff for personal needs. Wallschleger said it appeared Womble was more interested in using his office as a "stepping stone." "I ;don't spend my time responding to stuff like that," Womble replied During the interview at his home, Womble, 52, pointed in the direction of neighbors who sur round him on Salem Lake Road and emphasised that most of them, about 55 percent, are white. They (his constituents) don't look at me as a black person, but as an alderman," he said.- "I don't favor blacks; I favor the issues." He added: "The Southeast ward is a microcosm of America. We have less busing than any other ward." Among the accomplishments he said he is proudest of as an alderman was his work in separat ing the functions of the public safety program. At one time, police officers were required to respond to * fires and had to help put them out. The police disliked the program - "they had two masters" - and the "citizens in general were saying public safety wasn't working," Womblc said. He said he also worked to help re-establish the neighborhood foot patrol and was especially elated that the board recently approved the allocation of funds to hire 16 new foot patrol officers. In his ward, which Womble won by 100 votes in 1989, he said he is proud of his work in helping to build the ward's two new recreation centers and the new facility housing Forest Park Elementary School, which he said the school board wanted to close until the residents voiced their con cern. 1 * Womble said people can accomplish most anything if they "band together with a single pur pose." Womble said the criticism that followed the report of using the city secretary for personal work, includ ing a letter to President Clinton seeking (he ambassadorship of Kenya, will not jeopardize his chances for re-election. He shrugged off reports that he was in the job market as "testing the waters," "There were no other names in . 4 the hat from Winston-Salem," he said, referring. to jobs in the Ginton administration. '"My first and only obligation is being alderman for the people of the Southeast ward." He added: "If something had materialized, I probably would've turned it down." He also said that the letter he wrote to the All-American city offi cials - which was blamed for the denial of the All-American designa tion - won't hurt his re-election chanced. * He said the letter was written on behalf of the people, and that his critics are "attacking not me, but the people." The critics, he said, arc beginning to realize- that what he said in the letter was true. Womble was raised in East Winston by his grandparents. He was asked what drives him to be so active in politics and community affairs. "It gives me a sense of making a contribution," he said. 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