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Friday, August 9, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 Mayors push Senate for gun bill vote By Matthew Daly Senate Major- The mayors urged the can happen to a city,” Whaley from the congressional recess, and Lisa Mascaro ity Leader Senate to vote on two said of the weekend shoot- despite wrenching calls to “do The Associated Press Mitch McCo- House-passed bills expand- ing that killed nine people in something” in the aftermath of nnell and the ing background checks for Dayton. “We cannot allow the shootings. WASHINGTON — More Democratic gun sales that passed that this tragic event to fade from Instead, the Republican leader than 200 mayors, including two leader, Chuck chamber earlier this year. It our memories without taking is taking a more measured anguished by mass shootings in McConnell Schumer, the was signed by El Paso, Texas, action. Politics has stood in the approach, as GOP senators talk Texas and Ohio, are urging the mayors wrote, Mayor Dee Margo, Dayton, way of action for too long, and frequently among themselves Senate to return to the Capitol “Our nation can no longer Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley I can tell you politics seems and with the White House in the to act on gun safety legislation wait for our federal gov- and others where mass shoot- very petty when it is your face of mounting criticism that amid criticism that Congress ernment to take the actions ings have occurred, including friends and neighbors who are Congress is failing to act. is failing to respond to back- necessary to prevent people Orlando and Parkland, Flor- injured or dead.” President Donald Trump is to-back shootings that left 31 who should not have access ida, Pittsburgh and Annapolis, The push comes as McCo- privately calling up senators people dead. to firearms from being able Maryland. nnell, the Republican leader, In a letter Thursday to to purchase them.” “There is no worse thing that resists pressure to recall senators See GUN BILL, A6 SPORTS | B1 SOUTH LAKE STATE CHAMPION LEADS All fi xed up AREA BOWLERS INTO SEASON ‘The cycle is accelerating’ UN climate report: special report, written by Change land use to more than 100 scientists avoid a hungry future and unanimously approved by diplomats from nations By Seth Borenstein around the world Thurs- and Jamey Keaten day at a meeting in Geneva, The Associated Press proposed possible fixes and made more dire warnings. 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B7 A2 Friday, August 9, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF LONDON Stabbing rampage by man in 2 Fans recreate Beatles’ Abbey Road cover shot 50 years later California cities leaves 4 dead It was 50 years ago today, that The Beatles caused a traf- fic delay. By Amy Taxin killed. Authorities did not him attacking these people “He went directly to the And hundreds of fans of the and Robert Jablon immediately identify the and conducting these mur- register and tried to open Fab Four gathered Thursday at a The Associated Press suspect. ders,” he said. the register ... he showed me crosswalk in London’s St. John’s The violence appeared Whitney said the man lived a gun,” she said. He took all Wood neighborhood immortal- GARDEN GROVE, Calif. to be random and the only in a Garden Grove apartment the money and fled. ized on the “Abbey Road” album — A man “full of anger” known motives seem to be building where he stabbed “I think I was very lucky to recreate the cover photo half a stabbed, slashed and robbed “robbery, hate, homicide,” two men during some kind because he thought I was a century after it was taken. his way across two Southern Garden Grove police Lt. Carl of confrontation. One man customer, not the owner,” At 11:35 a.m. on Aug. 8, 1969, California cities in a bloody Whitney told reporters. died inside an apartment and she said. Iain Macmillan photographed rampage that killed four “We know this guy was another was found wounded The man also robbed an John, Paul, George and Ringo people and wounded two full of anger and he harmed a on a balcony and died at a insurance business, where a striding single-file across the others who were apparently lot of people tonight,” Whit- hospital. 54-year-old employee was black-and-white “zebra” targeted at random, authori- ney said Wednesday. The apartment build- stabbed several times and crossing outside Abbey Road ties said. The attacker and four of ing was cordoned off with was expected to survive. Studios while a police officer The 33-year-old man from the victims were described yellow tape on Thursday as He was armed with “some stopped traffic. the city of Garden Grove as Hispanic, while two police investigated the scene sort of machete knives” Used as the cover of the robbed more than half a victims were described as about a 10-minute drive when he confronted the band’s penultimate studio dozen businesses and killed Caucasian, police said in a from where the suspect was woman, Whitney said. album, it became one of the two men at his own apart- statement. Initially, all had arrested. The woman “was very most famous images in music ment complex during the been described as Hispanic. Whitney said a bakery also brave,” Whitney said. “She history. two-hour wave of violence The two people who were was robbed. fought as best she could.” Wednesday, police said. wounded were listed in The owner, who asked not An alarm company saw the LOS ANGELES He was arrested as he stable condition Wednesday to be identified, told KCAL- robbery on a live television Actor Danny Trejo helps save walked out of a convenience night and were expected to TV that she was charging her feed and called police.