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it began early yesterday evening and when it was over two people were dead. Two others wounded and two teenage girls have been kidnapped. Well last night, about 5:00, the suspect entered mary anne's clothing store. He pulled a gun. He shot three of the clerks in the

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head as he attempted to flee with out of Approximately $3,000 cash. The clerk in the liquor store, the liquor store joining the department store pulled his gun. I followed the suspect outside and they had a shootout on the sidewalk, whereas the suspect was forced to drop

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the money and abandoned his vehicle, which was parked at the park here at the scene. He then um it took two hostages to young girls in their sports car as they were leaving the scene. He took them hostage, forced them at gunpoint to drive him to

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the san Francisco area where he let them out at the greyhound bus depot. And they caught a bus back to Stockton. The dead are 74 year old joseph Mariani, longtime resident of Stockton and co owner of the store and the clerk, Pellegrini Cherry, Another clerk, Teresa

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Mascara, was wounded, shot through the neck and mouth and in a Stockton hospital today in critical condition. A passerby on the street thomas Gonzales was grazed on the arm by a bullet. The suspect is identified as 30 year old Balthazar Estrellas who police say had been

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working as an asparagus cutter on one of the ranches on Twitchell Island near Rio Vista the past six months, according to reports at this time. A stolen claims to be a marine corps veteran recently back from Vietnam and wounded there. He also claims to need money

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for an operation to prevent his death in the next two months. That information from two teenage stockton girls, 15 year old Lydia Rain Aga and her 17 year old sister Ramona. They were in their car in the parking lot behind the store at the time of

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the shooting after the money had been dropped during the shootout in front of the store, the rain aga girl's car was commandeered and they were forced to drive to san Francisco there. They were released unharmed, called their sister and caught a bus for home today they

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talked about that trip. You know we we were going to Tracy and he told me to get some gas and then when he told me that I've had a few, you know we're gonna go somewhere far because he was talking about the sacramento and san Francisco

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things like you know towns and so I got some gas and after that we drove away and I went all the way straight, he was talking about taking us to san Francisco and leaving us that you know we're gonna get on the bus and then before

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and then after he brought out this he brought on about the border, he was talking about Tijuana and things like that. He said you ever been to Mexico and then he said yeah and you know, so I had I thought maybe he was going to take

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us out there. What was he like on the trip down to san Francisco? Did he talk much to you? He talks he threatened to hurt you on the way down. He didn't threaten to hurt us. But he said he was going to kill us. Same thing.

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He said it's gonna kill us if we did anything wrong. We talked about a need for an operation or anything like that. He said that he needed money because he had two years to live two months. I mean, excuse me he had to get an operation.

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He has some kind of sickness or something. You seem nervous or calm or anything like that. Nothing happened. There was nothing. Mm hmm. The search now for 30 year old balthazar s stolen five ft six inches tall, £155 dark complexion Last seen driving in 1966. Mercury

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Comet four door green in color With the license number of SPM 132. He's armed and the police consider him dangerous. Pat O'brien for eyewitness news. Stockton's