Dormitory bomb charge

Press, 20 April 1981, Page 1

Dormitory bomb charge

.NZPA; . ■’ Ann Arbor ; A- /University , of.-' Michigan student who.-allegedly firebombed v dormitory and killed two/ ; students with tfa/sawh-off 2, shotgun rini ; front blaze wajp.: formally" -. charged yesterday ontwo counts of murder, the police said. Leo Kelly, a junior psychology major, was held in - Washtenaw County jailafter. his special week-end arraignment by a visiting judge.,-’ . - , Mive has been ’.case.v

but/a prosecutor said that Kelly had planned to “kill somebody,” and his two victims ' .‘.‘just ’/■- happened along’’ at the.wrong time. Kelly*, aged 22, bf< Detroit, .was /dressed in. a shirt and't ousers when he 'surrendered athis: dormitory; room soon ' after . -Friday’s /'shooting?, / “ft .Was < like <he was dress; 1* up/for. it,?’ one ' student said. - In • his room policemen found a sawn-off shotgun, unspent shells, a nonworking “zip gun/’ and an. honourable discharge from the Air- Fprcei . , ■ The authorities said that

Kelly threw the firebomb at another student, setting off a blaze on the sixth . floor of .the 1100-student - dormitory.. : ; ; / / ■. A/ fire alarm sounded and • students began toleave, the hall. The two , . victims were shot at ;.pqint-blank range as they. ran through the smokefilled hallway. . ‘ , The police said that at least -three shots were fired;. Inflicting ‘ • fatal wounds on Edward Siwik, aged 19, of Detroit, and Douglas McGreahafn, aged 21,; of. Caspian, Michigan. Students in the dormitory said that they knew

very little about Kelly because he kept to himself. ./,-• “That'guy wasn’t, a bad guy, he was quiet,” aresident 'saicL “He /hardly ieVer talked with anvone If -was like he .had to/kill' somebody and. .whdeyer 7 was ;the*etgot>blasted.” r. ■ ; jKelty’s/mother,/.Virginia, ' who:saw. her son the night before the shootings, said: “He’s quiet. 'He doesn’t have a lot of friend?;” Mrs Kelly, a concession worker at a Detroit ; race track, said .that her son was never known to be v Jlent, and- had = never owned a weapon- more /powerful than a bb gun.,