Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 7, 1995                   TAG: 9506070094
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: METRO 
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IN VIRGINIA EX-OFFICER SENTENCED IN SHOOTING

Virginia Beach Circuit Judge Thomas S. Shadrick also fined John R. Langowski $21,000. He was convicted in February of malicious wounding and petty larceny and pleaded guilty to illegal use of a firearm.

The shooting occurred April 1, 1994, after a Kmart store supervisor noticed Langowski heading for the exit with a $189 microwave oven in his shopping cart. Brad Bell, the unarmed guard, tried to detain Langowski. Witnesses said Langowski shot Bell in the throat with a .22-caliber pistol, then fled.

Shadrick ordered Langowski to serve his 26 years consecutively with a previous 93-year sentence he had received in Hampton for a robbery.

Langowski was suspended from the Norfolk force at the time of the shooting and was later fired.

- Associated Press

Professor testifies in law school suit

VIRGINIA BEACH - One of three professors who filed a contract lawsuit against the school founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson testified Tuesday that the university's president once said he considered faculty contracts worthless.

Jeffrey C. Tuomala, a Regent University law school professor since 1987, said school President Terry Lindvall told a faculty meeting last spring that he ``never considered the faculty contracts worth the paper they were written on.''

Tuomala was the first plaintiff to testify. Attorneys said Robertson, as well as his wife, Dede, probably will be called to testify today.

The professors - Tuomala, Clifford W. Kelly and Elaine S. Waller - contend the school offered them new contracts in May 1994 that substantially reduced job security provisions in the three-year contracts they had signed the previous year.

- Associated Press

Police suspect link in sexual assaults

RESTON - Fairfax County police are investigating possible links between the robbery and sexual assault of four Reston women and similar Northern Virginia assaults.

The women, who are in their early 20s, were asleep about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in an apartment they share when an armed man entered from the second-floor balcony, police said.

He awakened the women, robbed and assaulted them before fleeing, according to Lt. Jim Redfield.

Redfield said the attack was similar to assaults and robberies of women in the Centreville, Chantilly and Burke areas in recent months. Police have no suspects in more than a dozen attacks on women in the past year, Redfield said.

- Associated Press