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05-29-2007, 01:03 PM
May 29, 2:27 PM EDT
Aliens Part of Shooting Insanity Defense
By RANDALL CHASE
Associated Press Writer
GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) -- A man accused in a deadly, two-state shooting rampage was trying to prevent space aliens from abducting his daughter, his attorney said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.
Allison Lamont Norman, 27, was in the middle of a psychotic episode and believed he was protecting his 5-year-old daughter when he is accused of killing two people and wounding four others in Maryland and Delaware in April 2005, defense attorney Brendan O'Neill told jurors.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Norman in the slaying of Jamell Weston, 24, in Laurel, Del.
Norman also is accused in the shooting death of DaVondale M. "Pete" Peters, 28, in Salisbury, Md., but that charge and numerous others were dropped so the Delaware case could go forward. ....http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MARYLAND_DELAWARE_SHOOTINGS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Aliens Part of Shooting Insanity Defense
By RANDALL CHASE
Associated Press Writer
GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) -- A man accused in a deadly, two-state shooting rampage was trying to prevent space aliens from abducting his daughter, his attorney said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.
Allison Lamont Norman, 27, was in the middle of a psychotic episode and believed he was protecting his 5-year-old daughter when he is accused of killing two people and wounding four others in Maryland and Delaware in April 2005, defense attorney Brendan O'Neill told jurors.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Norman in the slaying of Jamell Weston, 24, in Laurel, Del.
Norman also is accused in the shooting death of DaVondale M. "Pete" Peters, 28, in Salisbury, Md., but that charge and numerous others were dropped so the Delaware case could go forward. ....http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MARYLAND_DELAWARE_SHOOTINGS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US