UP-DATE: ABORTION CLINIC SHOOTING, PALM SPRINGS, CA

Clinic shooting victim said to be in coma

Criminal complaint cites wounds

LARSON JUSTICE CENTER -- The teenage girl who was shot at a local women’s health clinic one week ago is in a coma, according to court documents.

The wound or wounds caused her "to become comatose due to brain injury or to suffer paralysis of a permanent nature," according to the felony criminal complaint filed this week in Riverside County Superior Court at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.

The document only identifies the shooting victim as 17-year-old "Sara S."

She reportedly was hospitalized in critical condition at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs after the shooting on the morning of April 29.

At her family’s request, no update has been issued on her medical condition.

The person accused of shooting her is Jeffrey Cameron FitzHenry, 17, of rural Indio.

FitzHenry pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon during a detention hearing in Juvenile Court at the Larson Justice Center.

Both of the charges ag-ainst Fitz-Henry have attached allegations related to use of a firearm and having the intention of inflicting great bodily injury, which increase the potential punishment for each charge.

FitzHenry will be tried as an adult and could be sentenced to life in prison if he’s convicted.

Bail has been set at $1 million pending a May 18 preliminary hearing.

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At some point, he will be transferred to county jail in Indio, according to Riverside County District Attorney’s office spokeswoman Ingrid Wyatt.

FitzHenry is accused of shooting the girl during a confrontation inside a medical clinic on Painters Path in Palm Desert.

http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20040506030051.shtml

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Station fully armed sharpshooters on the roof and machine gun clad armed guards outside of the clinics as a show of force to the fundamentalistwackos. Also, I would suggest arming these "clinic escorts" as well. It's time to stop pissing around with these people and show them that our side is willing to use deadly force ins self-defense.

Most don't charge much for services and are staffed by volunteers.

Adoption (baby selling) is a much more lucrative biz. If laws against profiting from adoption are ever passed, these freaks with guns who kill physicians and put women in comas might have to go to school or try to find jobs.

....and the anti-choicer who was outside the clinic gave the shooter some anti-choice literature and that the kid was shaking when he took the stuff. When are these azzholes gonna learn that stirring up emotions like this leads to results like this???

The girl's family filed a law suit against the shooter. I think they should sue the bastard that egged him on and did not do anything to stop him. Too bad, like you say, that someone was not there to protect her from shit like this. She is sixteen years old and it looks like there is no hope for her ever recovering.

F*ck him and all the azzholes out there that want to stick their noses in other people's business.

I'm sure your suggestion will be duly noted. I'm also quite sure that it holds little attraction for women seeking medical care.

As in the case of most of these fantasies (and not just about abortion clinics), the presence of sharpshooters, "machine gun clad" armed guards outside clinics and armed escorts would have had absolutely no effect on the outcome of this case.

The young man had access to an easily concealed firearm, and none of your bizarre suggestions would have affected his ability to use it. There is nothing to suggest that he was a "fundamentalistwhacko". He was an abusive, controlling individual who had access to the most efficient and effective means to exercise the control he wanted.

The case has nothing to do with fundamentalist-whacko opposition to abortion or interference with abortion services. It has everything to do with male violence against women in our intimate lives. The event was played out in the last resort at an abortion clinic, but it was no different from the physical and psychological violence that hundreds of thousands of women suffer in their own homes.

And when their abusers have access to firearms, the women frequently end up dead. No amount of sharpshooters or armed guards is going to prevent that, even if the idea does make some people salivate.

It's time to stop pissing around with these people and show them that our side is willing to use deadly force ins self-defense.

Your side may be willing to militarize women's health care to make some point. Whatever side that is, it isn't mine.

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Guns - the solution to all life's problems, eh?

"Dammit, if only there had been more people with guns there, then they could have killed the killer once he'd killed the victim..."

Works for me.

P.

...on American soil.

*silence*

RL

....so I do not know much about these DU'ers, but I can tell ya, that I Googled this shooting story and I got a link to the Freepers and their remarks were disgusting! What a bunch of bottom scum those people are. On and on about "consensual sex" and shit like the problem is that the father should have had a say-so. Geeeez: So it's OK with them for the father to shoot the mother cuz that prevented an abortion? Man, what a bunch of demented assholes!

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