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The Story - 2005-02-19 20:29:02
By Brenda English, Press Staff Writer
[photo: seedy looking guy (Lee Ogden) with swollen eye wearing droopy shirt, holding cigarette with one hand and pointing to bloodstain in parking lot with human figure chalked around stain]
Lee Ogden came to Abigail�s Bar this morning to find his lost car keys.
Ogden, 23, of Shorebridge Towers, was returning to the bar just a few hours after he witnessed a shooting there earlier this morning that left two men dead. He stood in the bar parking lot, pointing at a blood-filled police outline of a body, and talked about what he saw.
�I came out of the bar last night about 1 o�clock. I was going to get my car,� said Ogden. �All of a sudden, I heard three shots, and the guy right next to me dropped. I started trying to keep him alive.�
Ogden, who was still wearing his bloodstained blue jeans and dark green tee-shirt, said he knelt by the wounded man and began giving him heart massage.
�But they told me it wasn�t doing any good. His blood was running out too fast,� Ogden said.
�I don�t know where the shots came from. I couldn�t figure that out. But they sounded like maybe they came from over there somewhere,� he said, pointing across Grove Street, which runs just to the east of the bar parking lot.
Ogden said he was told later that a second man was also killed, but he did not see that victim or even know where he had fallen.
Ogden, who had a badly swollen black eye and nose this morning, said the next thing he knew the police arrived.
�Then I got grabbed and thrown in the cop car, and I went crazy because there was no reason to throw me in the cop car,� he said.
�Yeah, sure, I was drunk.�
Ogden said he was taken to jail and was released only this morning. He said he has been charged because of his drinking and must appear in court Nov. 3.
�I�m not sure how I got the black eye,� he said. �And my nose is broke in four spots. I�m supposed to go to the hospital this morning. But I�m trying to find my car keys.� * * * * * * * * * * * *
Laura - 2005-02-19 20:30:14
Man alive, talk about a hard luck case. You should see the photo. "Seedy" only begins to describe it. Stil, he did try to save the guy. * * * * * * * * * * * *
Anna - 2005-02-20 09:35:55
I don't get why he was arrested? It says because of the drinking, but was it because there was evidence he'd driven? * * * * * * * * * * * *
Laura - 2005-02-20 09:42:34
That's a good question. My guess is they asked him to come downtown for questioning as a witness, and (as he said he was drunk) he misunderstood, and, as he says, "went crazy," at which point they arrested him for being drunk and disorderly, which I think but am not sure is an arrestable offense. But that's just a guess.* * * * * * * * * * * *
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