Man Ordered Off Bus Kills Driver
And jCirl; Police Chase Ends in Death
CLEVELAND, —A man who
was asked to leave a Pittsburgh
to-Chicago bus early this morn
ing retaliated with gunfire, shoot
ing down the bus driver and an
18-year-old girl. The assailant
himself was killed a short time
later by police bullets.
The bus driver and the girl were
dead on arrival at hospitals here.
Five other persons were wound
ed as the assailant, not as yet
identified, charged through the
Greyhound Bus depot here firing
wildly at Patrolman Mike Bar
rett.
The wounded were treated at
Charity Hospital for leg wounds.
Four were released after treat
ment. Attendants said the other,
an 83-year-old man, was held for
observation.
A supervisor at the bus termi
nal identified the dead bus driver
as Leo Almerico, 49, of Cleveland.
Police identified the girl ten
tatively from a driver’s license
as Miss Georgeann Kartzke, 18,
of Ft. Eustis, Va.
Passengers said the man had
been bothering Miss Kartzke, who
was in the waiting room of the
terminal before they got on the
bus.
Emmett Jefferson, a porter at
the bus depot, which was crowd
ed at the time with holiday trav
elers, said after the shooting on
the bus the assailant came thru
the terminal “whooping and hol
lering.”
Patrolman Barrett happened to
be coming in the door at the same
time. He came part way into the
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station shouting to bystanders to
“fall to the floor.” The assailant,
described by police as a Negro,
about 32, of medium build and
5-foot-8 or -9—fire several times
with his .32 automatic, but Bar
rett held his fire for fear of hit
ting others in the terminal, firing
only one shot in the direction of
the door.
Barrett chased the man from
the terminal in the 1403 block on
Chester Avenue, to East 17th St.,
where the fugitive took refuge
behind the pillars of St. Peter’s
Church. Barrett said he ’ found
the man behind the third pillar
and “he came out shooting.”
Sgt. Michael Sirkot, who had
come to Barrett’s aid in a cruis
er, fired four times, and Barrett
fired twice. The assailant was
dead on arrival at Charity Hos
pital.
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financial affairs will remain in
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