Monday, July 31, 2006

PREGNANT WOMAN HERO AT SEATTLE SHOOTING

Attack on center has unlikely heroSeattle police call it a hate crime; judge sets bail at $50 million for the Muslim suspect (AP)
SEATTLE - With her co-workers fleeing out second-story windows and bullets flying, Dayna Klein — five months pregnant and already wounded by a bullet to the arm — crawled away to an office to call for help.

The gunman had already warned his victims at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle not to call police. And as he stalked through the charitable group's offices, he found Klein defying his orders.

Somehow, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said Saturday, Klein persuaded her assailant to talk with emergency dispatchers. A short time later, he laid down his weapons and surrendered to police.
Klein, 37, who police said was shot in the arm while shielding her pregnant belly, was singled out Saturday for her help in ending the crisis.

"She's a hero in my eyes," Kerlikowske said, also praising the dispatchers who talked down Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, identified by police as the shooter.

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