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Last updated April 14, 2008 10:51 p.m. PT
“Jewish Federation shooting victims recall terror of that day
Victim describes terror at Jewish Federation”
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Burkum, now 16, was the first witness Monday against Naveed Haq, a Tri-Cities man accused of killing one woman and wounding five others inside the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s downtown offices.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Haq is accused of ranting about Jews, U.S. troops in Iraq and the situation in the Middle East, where Israel had been engaged in increasing violence with Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
Ehlert told jurors Haq acted deliberately when he walked from office to office at the federation, shooting each woman he saw, and that he later told a detective he “came here today to do this.”
Pamela Waechter, the federation’s 58-year-old annual campaign director, was killed. Prosecutors say Haq shot her in the chest, chased her to a stairway and shot her again in the head.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He was saying that he “was an angry Muslim American, and he wanted to make a statement,” Stumbo said.”
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“Prosecutors to refute Jewish center defendant’s insanity claim”
By GENE JOHNSON
AP Legal Affairs Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The man accused of shooting up the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle two years ago, killing one woman and wounding five, was not insane but had a deliberate plan to make a blood-soaked political point, a prosecutor said Monday as the man’s trial began.
Naveed Haq, 32, of Kennewick, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of murder and attempted murder in the July 2006 attack, during which he walked through the Jewish center’s downtown Seattle office, ranting against Israel and the Iraq war as he fired, hitting some people at their cubicles and killing Pamela Waechter as she fled down a stairwell. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
King County Deputy Prosecutor Erin Ehlert told jurors in her opening statement that Haq’s careful preparation belied his insanity claim. He made four trips to gun shops in the weeks beforehand and used the Internet to map the 227-mile trip from his parents’ home in Pasco to the center.
“He thought about what he did. He planned what he did,” Ehlert told the jurors.
Even when a police officer stopped him for a traffic violation minutes before the shooting, he and the officer had “a normal conversation in a normal tone of voice,” she said.”