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a al “S~ . ? ic Tea Did ne trhys Yea bere Ae wi } ray ey aN Hy pp co INSOLE By RilltGrors-n On May 4, 1970. ference rane: rman, then a 21 -ycar-old KSU studc int ne to # noon rallyn the Comm, ens 3 Aipped with @ cameca, a ges macy, a 38 caliber pisiof. Minutes after the Ohio Naficna! Guar pened fire that day, Norman san fiona ye scene of the shootings, chased by twa niversity staff members, towas'd a prevy, f Guardsmen and comrus ool cri: ned up oon the site where Sertiy Voll red ta eland There thee aeaal tSoroie SUG tht SSN ea CRO Chae Peattae Peed Sef cad been waving about was ta.cr ase: rom him and, shortly aft ot orig: vas escoricd Vo the canip revoke se OF qucshioning. | Immediate speculatecn Ocpan Heit Norman's actions f.4° Ja _ srecipitaled the sweetsegs. fis ustificutions were pien boosie speculation, First, Guard spohestn ' nitially claimed that ther troops fire only after a sniper tied at Uber tes Second, a single shot cf unknown ones was heard and lape recorded! Bedare be troops unleashed theis br rage Of pevttire Finally, other than Guardsmen, Norrie was the only person on campus that “e. to have been observed wiih a pon. The campus police, hiesever, Ipter © an end to such speculat ior when tiev announced that Neiman’. weapon ta: nut been fired. They ale denice Nurtiman's cision that he hal b .- photographing student demenstriias i- them. Statements by a former Clie Nftional Guardsman and a former NEC ngwsman who wilnessd the actite hbwever, contradict the officl-! explanation of the incident. f * Hy Ve a 7 4 fad tz . Poa vepaper, city and #tate.} In s*parste interviews, ex-Guardsman Auchacl Delaney and neasmin Feed DeBrine, formerly with WKYC- Arron bureau, gave similar versong of startling comments they attriluted to | Norman and to acamotrs noliceman a after Norman stopped running from Blanket |—— Hill. Delaney and DcBrine both maintained that they heard Norinan say: “—E had to shoot. They were gat-g to kil + me. Furthermore, they both saic that a campus policeman who handled Norman's pun jn their presence exclaimed that oat had been fired. Delane: oucled eae Stables BLES LAP LA, Lai! qucite the policesian as saying: “By God! The guns been fired.” DeBrne sented, remembering the officer’s words as: “My Cod' He fired four shots. Wha’ are we guing to do now?" 5 Tatrolman Harold Rice and Jetcetve m Keiley were the (wo K.5.U voli}sers who handled and examinec the weapon at the scenc. Both wrote in oficial KS.U, police reports about the Nonnar iicident that they opened the cylinder of Norman's pun there and that - in Rice's words — “all of the cartridges v cre fully loaded.” Norman, whose present: wh resbouts have eluded newsmen and researchers of the killings - could aot b> re ched for comment. Ile had claiined to reporter that he had only used his cariera that day, The Justice Department's sucamary of > FA D's javesti-gtion of > killings s1atis lige ieoman “was vill, the Guardsmen most of the time during the confrontation. A few students observed Bis ype on and cloim that he irce it al studenis juct) prior to the time ithe Cundsnen fitod. Notun clait 5 thatpiie all not pull his weapon until ater phe sh ooting was Ove; aiid then onl: wheg he | wis attacked by four or five students. — comer faa ail " 5 eae wa Ta Tras wi ao Vet: eet fears ~F x wt en als