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Volume 102, Issue 140
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Campus,
Town React
“A chaotic, insane incident
of this sort to happen just
seems impossible for such
a small town.”
Brett Perry
“It brings the sense of
security down to anew
level. I mean, that’s
somebody’s
baby down there.”
Jennifer Harrelson
“A guy asked me, ‘Did you
hear that bullet over our
head?’ That’s when I
ran for cover.”
Dave Baddour
Hero Tackled Assailant,
Ending Shooting Spree
BY WENDY GOODMAN
STAFF WRITER
Bill Leone didn’t have time to think.
He only had time to react Thursday
afternoon when the shooting began on
Henderson Street.
“It was just in
stinct. I was afraid
one of the people
watching from the
windows would get
hurt,” Leone said at
his Chapel Hill
home Thursday
night. “I’m sure
anyone would have
done it.”
This gut instinct caused Leone, a 26-
year-old UNC senior and head bartender
at Tammany Hall, to jump into the
crossfire, tackle the gunman outside the
bar after he had already been shot and
make sure the suspect was down. Leone
then took the gunman’s 30.06 rifle and
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threw it into the street.
“I was with Bill, and we yelled to the
cops to tell them that he was over there,”
said Brian Rathjen, an eyewitness and a
friend ofLeone’s. “The next thing I know,
Bill was weaving his way through the cars
(in the parking lot).”
Barry Judeson, another eyewitness and
manager of Tammany Hall, saw Leone
in action.
“The gunman was walking up
Henderson Street,” Judeson said. “After
the gunman was shot, Bill Leone jumped
on him and made sure he was down. He
threw the weapon in the street.
“He just reacted to the situation,” he
added. “It was very heroic. He was virtu
ally in a crossfire.”
In the struggle, Leone sustained a gun
shot wound to the left shoulder. He was
treated at UNC Hospitals and released
Thursday evening.
At his house Thursday, Leone said he
See LEONE, Page 2
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The 30.06 semi-automatic hunting rifle and spent cartridges, along with several items belonging to the gunman
Student, Resident Gunned
Down; 3 Injured as Law School
Student Is Captured by Police
BY RYAN THORNBURG
CITY EDITOR
AND JACSON LOWE
SENIOR WRITER
A UNC lacrosse player and one other
person were killed and two others wounded
Thursday when a UNC law student alleg
edly opened fire with a semi-automatic
rifle on Henderson Street.
According to Fred Schroeder, UNC
dean of students, Kevin Reichardt, 20, a
sophomore midfielder from Riva, Md.,
was one of the victims killed. Chapel Hill
police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said
the names of the two victims would not be
officially released until sometime this
morning.
Cousins said warrants had been issued
charging Wendell Williamson, 26, of 103-
M Rock Creek Apartments in Carrboro
with two counts of first-degree murder.
Williamson is in police custody at UNC
Hospitals where he was to undergo sur
gery for injuries sustained during his ap
prehension.
According to eyewitnesses, the assail
ant fired at point-blank range into the squad
car of Chapel Hill police officer Demetrise
Stephenson. The officer, who was already
in die area when the shooting occurred,
sustained a gunshot wound to her left
hand while driving south on Henderson
Street. According to Kathy Neal, UNC
Hospitals spokeswoman, Stephenson was
taken to UNC Hospitals where she under
Law Student 4 A Loner’
Injured Suspect Had Past
Outbursts, Few Friends
BY STEVE ROBBLEE
SENIOR WRITER
Wendell Justin Williamson was a loner,
someone who had
few friends but who
frequented social
areas such as bars
and law school func
tions.
“He was antiso
cial, but in a social
sort of way,” one
classmate said.
Police say
Williamson, 26, a
third-year UNClaw
WILLIAMSON
Nearby Deaths Stun Sorority
BY JON GOLDBERG
FEATURES EDITOR
The mood on the front porch of Phi Mu
sorority’s annex house was one of shock,
sadness and disbelief Thursday afternoon
in the aftermath of a gunman’s shooting
spree on Henderson Street that left two
dead and three others wounded.
About 20 women in the sorority looked
on in horror as the body of UNC sopho
more Kevin Reichardt was covered by a
white sheet in the street no more than 15
feet from the annex, where about 12 women
live next door to the main sorority house.
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went surgery. She was listed in good con
dition Thursday night, Neal said.
The other person injured in the
shootings was Bill Leone, a University
student and manager at Tammany Hall, a
nightclub on the comer of Rosemary and
Henderson streets. Leone was shot while
See SHOOTING, Page 2
Reichardt Exemplified
Term ‘Student-Athlete’
BY JUSTIN SCHEEF
SPORTS EDITOR
A returning letter winner ... saw
some quality playing time as a freshman
and will con
tinue to im
prove ifhe plays
up to his size...
coaches are high
on his
athleticism and
playing ability
... was named
to the 1994
ACCAcademic
Honor Roll and
s.' *-jy|
KEVIN REICHARDT
also the Dean's List for the fall of 1993
and 1994.
See REICHARDT, Page 2
student and a native of Clyde, opened fire
on Henderson Street at approximately 2
p.m. Thursday. Police have issued war
rants charging Williamson with two counts
of first-degree murder.
While Williamson was portrayed as a
loner by several classmates, and on two
occasions he had engaged in outbursts
and had had to be calmed by others. Sev
eral law students described an outburst
last year outside a course in criminal pro
cedure taught by Professor Barry Nakell.
“He started talking about how he could
read people’sthoughts,” said another third
year law student who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
In another incident two years ago,
Williamson had an outburst in the law
school parking lot near the snack shack.
See SUSPECT, Page 2
“I can’t really describe it,” said Jennifer
Harrelson, a Phi Mu member. “It brings
the sense of security down to anew level.
I mean, that’s somebody’s baby down
there.”
Whitney Mansfield was resting on the
sofa in the annex when she heard loud
noises outside. At first, she didn’t believe
it was serious. “I thought they were play
ing with paint guns,” she said.
But then she looked out a window and
saw a man being pursued by the gunman.
“I couldn’t really believe it, ” Mansfield
See SORORITY, Page 2