Cocaine sniffer kills 3. wounds 13

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34138, 27 April 1976, Page 21

Cocaine sniffer kills 3. wounds 13

JACKSON (Georgia). April 26. A former convict went on a shooting and 'kidnapping spree through two American ‘slates yesterday, sniffing cocaine and killing three people and wounding 13 others before killing himself. The gunman, apparently (angered over a drug deal, began his rampage in Jacksonville. Florida, and left a bloody path along inter-state Highway 75 through central Georgia. It al! ended in Jackson i when Moses Pearson, aged 1.31. of Jacksonville, com red by the police in the car he ‘had commandeered and crash wrecked, turned one of his (four pistols on himself > “When he talked about all rihose people being dead he I laughed about it." said Mrs Susie Critton. aged 25. one lof three Jacksonville host- | ages who escaped unharmed. “He had no regrets. He said that all he did was pull the trigger. He said he couldn't leave no witnesses. He just kept talking and sniffing the cocaine.” After the first of his hostages escaped. Pearson abducted a Bay Village, Ohio, woman and her two teen-age daughters, and still had them with him at the end. He shot at the mother once ’and missed, but she fooled ■ I him by pretending to be dead ’The two girls were unharmed, “but shaken. Their father, Mr Leslie [Janda. had been wounded : i and left on the roadside when I the gunman commandeered •Itheir car as they returned from a Florida holiday.