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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 4-8-1992 Montana Kaimin, April 8, 1992 Associated Students of the University of Montana Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of the University of Montana, "Montana Kaimin, April 8, 1992" (1992). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 8454. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/8454 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WEDNESDAY April 8,1992 Vol. 94. Issue 78 KA1M1 N The University of Montana Officer wounded, kills man in shootout By Kevin Anthony Kaimin Reporter A Montana Highway Patrol officer was wounded in a shootout eight miles east of Bonner Tuesday that killed a Colorado man who was the prime suspect in a double homicide in Nevada, officials said. Francine Giono, a Whitehall native, was in stable condition after undergoing surgery at St. Patrick hospital Tuesday night, a hospital spokesman said. Gerald Crego, chief of detectives for the Missoula County Sheriffs Department and chief deputy coro­ ner, said Giono was wounded in the left leg and shoulder and that the wounds were not life-threaten­ ing. Crego was the chief investigator at the scene. Giono stopped Frank Bocfoeldy, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., fordriving without proper registration around 1:30 p.m., Crego said. Bocfoeldy was driving a red Toyota4x4 truck with Reno dealer’s stickers instead of license plates. He pulled off Highway 200 and drove about 130 feet before stopping in an area separated from the road by trees. Pulling away from the road was suspicious, but Giono had no choice but to follow him, Crego said. “You go where they go,” he said. He said Bocfoeldy then jumped out of the truck and shot Giono with a single-shot Thompson Con­ tender handgun as she stepped from her car. Giono fired back, discharging 11 rounds from a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, Crego said. He said she hit Bocfoeldy seven times, including a fatal wound to the head. Giono then got back in her car and radioed for help, he said. The entire incident lnve^‘9ators remove the body of Frank BoctoWyfrom the scene of a slSSlng e’^Mm’ltes lasted about three minutes, he added. Investigators arrived at 2 p.m. and searched the ^cft^wa#BholandkHledbyHlghway Patrol Officer Francine Giono after scene for four hours. Bocfoeldy lay face down near ne wounded her In the shoulder and leg. the truck, dressed in a blue denim jacket and black bullet wounds, while Remley was shot twice in the head. Crego two counts of grand theft with a firearm. pants encrusted with blood. Metal shell casings were said Missoula County investigators found a .22 caliber re­ Crego said he does not believe Giono knew of Bocfoeldy’s scattered around the patrol car. volver on Bocfoeldy’s body, as well as a .38 caliber handgun possible connection with the double-homicide when she pulled him Bocfoeldy, 36, was the prime suspect in a double in an ankle holster. homicide in late March in the Topaz Lake area of over. He said Giono had been working on the accident patrol unit Richardson said the two bodies found in Nevada were since November. Nevada, said detective Sgt. Jim Richardson of the discovered March 30 and he was surprised to learn that Douglas County Sheriffs Department in Nevada The last time the Montana Highway Patrol was involved in a Bocfoeldy was in Montana, as was detective Kevin Armstrong shooting was in late December when a bank robber was shot and He said Bernard T. Remley and John Anderson of Wheat Ridge, Colo., Bocfoeldy’s hometown. died of .22 caliber bullet wounds. Their truck, which killed by patrolman Shawn Driscoll on Highway 93 in Missoula. Armstrong said he had been investigating the Nevada matches the description of the vehicle Bocfoeldy The last time a highway patrol officer was shot in Montana was murders for five days and Bocfoeldy was facing two counts of was driving, was reported stolen. Anderson had four April 14,1989 when Officer Pat Murphy was shot after pulling over murder with a firearm, one count of robbery with a firearm and a motorist near Great Falls. She has since returned to duty. Commission members say Conference shows disagreement Limited funds forced enrollment cap between hunters, anti-hunters By Karen Coates from higher education during a spe­ would place education, from kin­ Kaimin Reporter By David Carlchuff During the panel discussion. cial session in January to balance dergarten through college, at the Kaimin Reporter Pacelie said, “Our movement is the state budget. The regents raised top of his priority list and allocate Limiting enrollment is a regret­ not a pro-life movement; it’s an tuition by $7 per credit for resi­ the necessary funds for maintain­ table choice, but the Legislature has Despite promising to dents and $47 per credit for non­ ing quality. find anti-suffering movement” He left no other option for maintaining “common ground” in earlier in­ residents beginning this summer, Unfortunately, he said, capping referred to legal efforts by The quality in the university system be­ and it capped next year’s enroll­ enrollment is necessary now be­ terviews, panelists from hunting Fund for Animals to stop the cause it has not increased funding, ment in the university system at cause current funding levels are and anti-hunting suffering ofwnimals several members of the Commis­ current levels, plus or minus 2 per­ below what is needed for the num­ positions found----------------- caused by hunting. sion for the Nineties and Beyond cent University presidents are cur­ ber of students in the university little agreement we COUld get said this week. But to only con­ rently determining ways to system. Tuesday, during a over this idea that The Commission was organized sider the suffering of “downsize” so that campuses reach “Frankly, we saw that as a ter­ nationally broad­ hunting to examine the future of higher edu­ the animal is too nar­ peer funding levels. rible choice, but the Legislature cation in Montana. In September cast teleconference aggravates the row of a view, ar­ John Dietrich, a commission did not appropriate enough money 1990, it recommended to Gov. Stan based at UM. pain of animals, gued Theodore member from Billings, said higher to increase expenditure,” he said. Stephens that higher education fund­ “I think that we could go a Vitali, chairman of education hasn’t been a big enough Commission member Charlene ing be raised to that of comparable there’s a funda­ priority among some legislators. Loge of Dillon said not all of the long way." the St. Louis Univer- universities in the area by 1996, mental difference “I th ink that the legislators, many general public is even aware of the -hunter Jay Sity Philosophy De- among other changes in the univer­ of them, have felt that higher edu­ of opinions on kill­ partment. He said sity system. university system’s funding prob­ Hammona cation is getting its share of the lems. ing of wildlife,” common ground Chairman John Mudd said Mon­ dollar—more than its share of the “I’m not convinced there’s Wayne Pacelie, na­ could be found in a day that the Board of Regents had dollar,” he said. widespread recognition higher edu­ tional director of The Fund for larger view of hunting by agree­ no choice but to cap enrollment and Committee members Rep. Mike cation is in trouble,” she said. Animals, said after the telecon­ ing that humans are simply part raise tuition this year. Kadas, D.-Missoula, and Sen. H. W. But change may not come until ference. He called the difference of nature and not above it. “I think it’s a regrettable second Hammond, R-Malta, could not be choice, one that I don’t want,” he voters become aware of the prob­ “unbridgeable.” “We all share a common reached for comment. lem , show wi Hi ngness to g i vc m orc said. “It’s an unfortunate limiting Other participants by satellite world view in which the human But commission member Jim financial support to education and of access, there’s no question about included Gov. Stan Stephens and being is a participant” Vitali Moore, a state senator from 1969 to vote for legislators and a governor it But the Legislature and the gov­ John Turner, director of the U.S. said. 1974, said he would never blame who will do the same. ernor essentially have given us no Fish and Wildlife Service. UM the Legislature because he knows The responsibility lies with vot­ However, arguments about choice.” “ the tough decisions it must make. ers caring enough about the system wildlifeprofessor DanielPlet.se her suffering of animals prevent The Legislature cut $8.7 million Yet if it were up to him, he said he to query candidates,” she said. was a panelist. See "Hunting," Page Two Wednesday. April 8, 1992 Clinton, Bush big winners in primaries (AP)—Front-runner Bill Clinton thumped Jerry Brown in the brutal New York primary Tuesday and added a Kansas landslide for good measure, tight­ ening his grip on the Democratic , nofinnwido debate the pros and cons of hunting. From left: Raymond presidential nomination despite PANELISTS AT a UM teleconference, broadcast nationwide, oeoate ine p _ Dasmond, Jay Hammond, Theodore Vitali, Wayne Pacelle, James Posewllz and Jack Lousma.

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