Gay groups praised the police response today and urged witnesses to call authorities.
Witnesses on Friday told reporters that Wells-Crestwell was hit in the arm by a three- to four-inch nail. A Grady Memorial Hospital spokesman said Memrie Wells-Crestwell of Snellville, Ga., underwent surgery to remove shrapnel from her right shoulder. Of the five people hurt in the explosion, one was seriously injured.
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"We don't know whether there is a serial bomber," he said, but "we do know that you cannot ignore the similarities." It is hard to find any thread that links the two, except someone who is out to make some perverse political statement. It had been put in a backpack, as was the bomb in the Centennial Park bombing.Īsked if the clinic bombing and the club attack were linked, Campbell said, "I don't know. Local police officers found the bomb and used a robot to detonate it. The bomb fragments were found several hundred feet away from the nightclub, on rooftops and in adjacent parking lots, Browning said.Ĭampbell ordered extra police protection for gay clubs today, calling the bombing a "hate crime." The mayor said the nightclub bomber used "very sophisticated technology" and had placed the second bomb against a stone wall, an indication, he said, that the bomber wanted to "magnify the explosion." Investigators found pieces of the bomb today, what ATF spokesman Bobby Browning tonight called "very significant evidence that will help the case quite a bit." One bomb was placed near intended victims, while the second was placed outside the building, apparently aimed at killing or maiming police officers and rescue workers. In both attacks, two bombs were deployed. In the nightclub and clinic attacks, high explosives - most likely dynamite - were used, federal officials said. The attack also has some of the same characteristics as the Centennial Park bombing during last July's Olympics, federal officials said. The bomb that exploded here late Friday was similar to one that damaged a suburban abortion clinic in mid-January. "Somehow we've got to weave a thread through it and find out what's going on here, because it erodes the confidence of people when there are random acts of terror committed." "Why Atlanta? Why now? What does it mean for the future?" asked Mayor Bill Campbell. As they worked in the sealed-off neighborhood, Atlantans tried to make some sense out of the attack.
More than 100 members of a federal response team were on hand today, most of them from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "It's scary," said Sally Ringo, a member of Gays and Lesbians Against Defamation, or GLAD. Abel, executive director of the Georgia Equality Project. but the price they paid was in their bodies," said Cindy L. They were simply enjoying an evening's entertainment. "The people injured at the club that night were not out making a statement of some type or protesting anything. W., Washington, D.C.Under bright sunshine today, law enforcement agents using metal detectors swept the streets in a six-block area north of downtown for shrapnel and clues in the nighttime bombing of a club popular with gay men and lesbians.Īcross the city, gay groups rallied at the Georgia Capitol to denounce the bombing, which injured five and raised fears that a serial killer was at work in the city. If you believe you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, please write to: Office for Equal Opportunity, National Park Service, 1849 C Street, N. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, gender or disability in its federally assisted programs.
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