ABORTION DOCTOR SLAIN AT CLINIC

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 11, 1993                   TAG: 9303110293
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PENSACOLA, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short
ABORTION DOCTOR SLAIN AT CLINIC
A doctor was shot to death during a protest outside his abortion clinic Wednesday, and an anti-abortion advocate who had prayed for him to "give his life to Jesus" calmly surrendered.
It was the first fatality ever reported at an abortion protest, abortion-rights campaigners said.
Dr. David Gunn, 47, was shot several times in the back as he got out of his car at the Pensacola Women's Medical Services clinic he operated, police said. Gunn died in surgery two hours later.
At the time of the shooting, a dozen anti-abortion protesters were gathered in front of the clinic, police Sgt. Jerry Potts said.
Michael Frederick Griffin, 31, of Pensacola, was arrested and charged with murder, Potts said.
Potts refused to confirm the shooting was abortion-related. "I don't want to speculate, but it occurred while a protest was going on," he said.
During a service Sunday, Griffin had offered a prayer for the doctor at the Whitfield Assembly of God Church outside Pensacola, said John Burt, a lay preacher who led the protest.
"He asked that the congregation pray, and asked that we would agree with him that Dr. Gunn would give his life to Jesus Christ," Burt said. "He wanted him to stop doing things the Bible says is wrong and start doing what the Bible says was right."

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB