Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1983 — Page 1

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Low cost renovation spurs

'Save Lockefield' battle

A YOUNGSTER tentatively identified as Eric after being iojured in a three-car collision aroand 8 p.m. Wednesday night at 38th and Boulevard Place. Abo hurt in the

at Recorder press time. (Marcell WBHams photo)

Firearms board may probe police shooting

By WILLIAM ALEXANDER Police Reporter The Firearms Revie* Board may determine whether the Westside police action shooting of a theft suspect was within department guidelines. Police Chief Joseph MeAtee questioned Monda> whether off-duty Narcotics Detective Sgt. Harry Goss followed department policy last Saturday when he shot Carl Swanigan, 19, 2822 Roberta, m the upper left thigh. McAtee said a board review of the shooting would probably begin next week. Goss said Swanigan and another man were stealing tires from a car parked in the 2600 block of Cold Springs Manor Drive about 3:30 a.m. The detective said when Swanigan tried to hit him with a tire iron he fired three times, striking the suspect once as he fled. The second suspect-jumped a fence and

fled into a wooded area, Goss said. McAtee said Monday tire theft was not listed in guidelines he issued last June on when police may use firearms. He said policemen are authorized to use guns either when their lives are threatened or when they are in pursuit of a suspect wanted for burglary, murder or rape. The board will probabl) determine whether Goss fired at Swanigan because he felt threatened and did not know where the second sus pect was, McAtee said. Swanigan, who was charged with thefi, resisting arrest and fleeing a police officer, was listed in satisfactory condition in the Wishard Hospital detention ward. The 6-foot-7, 300-pound suspect said Monday he did not try to hit Goss and ran immediately when he saw the detective’s gun. McAtee said he turned

Alternative: Two House Democrats oppose Republican proposal to build a $4 million medium security facility in the Indiana State Reformatory at

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baby?: Luther Hicks expresses his views on the $5 million signing of Hebman Trophy-winner Herschell Walker by the fledgling United States Football League. Editorials and Opinions, Page IS. •••*** Crumbs: Minorities and women are disproportionately underemployed and unemployed, according to a U.S. Civil Rights Commission survey. Page 18. Jackson eyes proxy race CHICAGORev. Jesse Jackson says although his chances for victory would be stim he would be “highly receptive** if drafted into the 1984 presidential race. The executive director of Operation People United to Serve Humanity was scheduled t0 meet Friday with a group of Mack baden to discuss selection of a Mack preskhoriai hopeful. Gary, tod. Mayor Ridufcd -Hatch* lab a “Mack independent” alternative to tM

down a review board recommendation to issue Goss a written reprimand. The police chief ordered GOss to take a day-long course on the firearms policy. in another incident, police are looking for five men who allegedly raped a 28-year-old woman last Saturday in the 3100 block of Central. A 25-year-old newspaper carrier was robbed of about $70 last Saturday in the 3000 block of Clifton, police said. Joseph Jackson told police he was collecting from customers along his route when two men, one armed with a .25 caliber pistol, asked for his money. The suspects, *ho Jackson said frequent he area, fled North on Clifton. An undetei mined amount of cash was taken in an armed holdup last Friday at Sassy Fried Chicken, 5040 East 38th. Witnesses told police a man walked into the business about 8 p.m. and grabbed an employee by his collar, demanding money. The suspect fled East on 38th, police said. An elderly man was robbed of $280 last Friday by a man believed to be a friend of a son of the victim's roommate. James Outlaw, 78, 2407 North Kenwood, said a man knocked on his door about 10 p.m. and claimed to be returning a key to a truck belonging to Outlaw’s roommate, Henry Quite, 69.. Outlaw said Quite loaned the truck earlier in the day to his son, Thomas Quite, 40. Outlaw told police he efiiscd to open the door and the man smashed a window, mtered the haoee aad forcibly robbed him. The elder Quite said he believed the suspect b a friend of his son.

By LYNN FORD Staff Writer

could be totally renovated for roughly $18,000-per unit. Historic Indianapolis leased a two-bedroom unit from

In an llth-hour effort to

pl ex carpeting. Spokesperson Contracts are to be «war- <?l°ry June “W organi “- ded next week to begin a uo " s P en f *5°° for combined razing and renova- and acquired an equal doUar tion of the complex at 9tO amount in donated and loanLocke and Historic Indian- “ furniture, apolis, Inc. seized an oppor- One bedroom of the aparttunity to estimate Lockefield ment was furnished as a

study room and Ms. June said the unit showed Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis or a private developer could “renovate the entire project for either commercial or student housing. “It’s stupid to build new midtown housing when Lockefield can serve as the hub for revitalization of Indiana Avenue,** she said. The 748-unit project, which qualified in 1976 for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, was

built during the late 1930s and has been praised for its durability. “We toured an architect through Lockefield recently and he was amazed that there are no cracks in the exterior bricks,” Ms. June said. Plans announced in 1980 by the Lockefield Redevelopment Advisory Committee call for the renovation of between 175 and 270 units, with the rest targeted for demolition. The committee includes representatives of IUPUI, Midtown Economic

Development and Industrial Corp., the city and Walter Blackburn Associates, an architectural firm. Ms. June told reporters who toured the renovated apartment recent changes in tax 7 incentives for housing rehabilitation have put Lockefield on the minds of private developers in California and Pennsylvania. “It is not our desire or purpose to block construction agreements reached in the

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Half-million cash award in tofs death could establish a precedent

“They tell us don’t abuse son, Richard “Richie” Euyour child. They try to gene Mayberry II, died beorientate us on how to raise cause of direct negligence our kids, but then say 'that’s on the part of Winona Memokay, the doctor can make orial Hospital personnel, mistakes...but that’s not The child was struck by a worth any value to you.* car May 19,1981, in front of Now who can put any value his home, 4065 Broadway, on feelings?” He was seen in Winona's Doris Mayberry was nei- Emergency Ward, according ther bitter nor vindictive. She to the plaintiffs attorney, by was dear-eyed mM nudntr^ Maohad Wheeler, exambut kind-sounding as sho ined and x-rays taken, made her point. Released, he returned A few feet from Mrs. home with his parents, who Mayberry’s elbow sat her later, noticed blood in his husband, Richard, restrain- stool. Next morning, around ing their playful six-month- 6 a.m., they noticed Richie old son, Brian Lamont. Mr. had stopped breathing, and Mayberry's voice drops a bit he was subsequently proas he echoes his wife's nounced dead at Methodist

sentiments.

“It’s a shame and it's a

Hospital.

A quiet settlement was

crime, you know, that you negotiated *’involving certain can lose your son through parties,” granting the Maywrongful death and they berrys SI32,6KL but they consider a few thousand pressed their complaint, dollars a huge sum. Indiana seeking ynore throug Indivirtualfy considers your child ana Patient’s * Compensation your slave and that’s Fund relief, and Superior wrong.” Court Room 5 Judge Michael The Mayberrys, tucked Dugan awarded them away in their neat near- $367,388 more, bringing the Northside dwelling, seem to total to almost $500,000, the have absorbed the tragedy as maximum allowed here.

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MR. AND MRS. Richard Maybeery discuss the money awarded them from the Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund for the loss of their 17-month-old son.

Richard “Richie” Eugene Mayberry IH, (inset). With them is the latest addition to (heir family, six-momth-old Brian Lamont. (Marcell Williams photo)

prevails, will become far-

reachina in scone. standards, and says he wants

For almost two years now, lt tested higher,

they’ve lived with grief state “To me as a lawyer,” he law says should be wiped out says, “this is one of the most by an “X amount of dollars” important cases that I’ve based on antiquated values, handled and probably will some fed. ever handle. It would be The couple contends their difficult for me to share with

you the sorrow that I have experienced over these 16 years when I've had to meet with grieving parents who've lost their children in accidents, and I’m forced to tell them that our law does not recognize their value. The case is significant to me. I've watted a long time for this to happen.” “This is. significant,” he goes on “because it’s the maximum amount of money that could be awarded under

the Medical Malpractice Act which limits recoveries to under $500,000. In verdicts prior to the Mayberry case, the sum generally was less than $20,000 and verdicts are commonly in the area of $10,000, In Judge Dugan’s decision, he was merely recognizing what the public has always known, and that is that our children are valuable.” In handing down his decision February 11, Judge

Dugan noted: “There is no business from which the Mayberrys could purchase the unique acts of kindness and attention which would have been performed for them by Richie.” Hurst is now eager to see the law tested via this case in a higher court. Since the state has a knack for appealing such judgements, the perceptive attorney hopes this one Sat MATBBRY, Page 17

Coost-to-coost furor erupts after youngster's fatal shoaling by cop

STANTON, Calif.Demonstrations enmasse are certain to develop later this week following the shooting death late last week of a 5-year-old boy by a white police officer who said he shot the youth after he fdt his “life was threatened”. Human and dvil rights organizations throughout this state and the nation have called for a full-scale investigation into the death of young Patrick Andrew Mason, who was shot to death March 3 by 24-year-old Par trohnan Anthony Sport. The officer, called to an apartment by a neighbor who was worried about the welfare of the boy and his mother, said he obtained a pose key from the manager when he got no reeponee. Once htaUto Sperl said he identified himself and node-

^iag~tte~90*h in^Se _ neck. He died about an hour investigation, but contman-

later.

Outcries have come from coast to coast, according to authorities, and the police departtnem has come under fire from a number of organiatioos, both radical

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ding officers have already indicated the officer acted properly, except he didn’t call for a backup unit before entering the apartment, located in a section of Orange County said to be “antipolice.” j Meanwhile, authorities called a press conference Monday and exhibited a plastic toy pistol the boy was allegedly pointing at the officer. It was noted during the conference that the apartment was dimly lit and that all the officer could see was silhouettes. It was further revealed that the boy had been left alone while his mother, identified as Ms. Patricia Ridge, went to her job on the nightshift as a mechanic and allegedly tied the door shut so he couldn’t get out. Stanton police Captain James Brown said of the inddeiit: "all he (Sperl) saw was the gun pointed in his direction a^d a figure that he couldn’t make out. Sport, reportedly in a state of shod; after the

shooting, was reportedly out a kid, the officer reportedly of town. v After realizing he had shot SBOOfOG, Pea 1J Black law officers salute set Sunday

Black pdlice officers, sometimes maligned, sometimes commended and sometimes unthought of. . They’ll come in for some special recognition during a program scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday at Scott United Methodist Church, 2131 Mart indale Avenue. “It's a program to bridge the communication gap between the community and the various law enforcement agencies in hopes to- view police as protectors instead of adversaries,” explains Rev. Joy L. Thornton, pastor of Scott-United Methodist Church. He and fellow planners retired patrolman Rev. Keith

Vance ‘Sr. and pat rain Rev. T.C. Watson have s< .special invitations to ; members of the law enfoi ment agencies in Mar County - Indianpolis Pol Department, Indiana St Police and Marion Com Sheriff's Department. The agenda will be bt around Charles Guynn, i mediate past director of i Marion County Hum Rights Commission. Amc his presentations will bt roil call of officers killed the line of duty . Rev. Thornton says it u about six weeks to put < program together, and ho fuHy, there’ll be a n response.