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BLACK OCTOBER — The killing of a drug-dealing state delegate (Excerpt 2)

In the wee small hours of Friday the 13th Holton Brown of the Baltimore Sun's night City Desk took a call announcing that a murder had been committed. Read about it at http://VoiceOfBaltimore.org

     A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from

BLACK OCTOBER AND THE MURDER OF TURK SCOTT
   The Case Files of Homicide Lt. Stephen Tabeling

A SOON-TO-BE-PUBLISHED MINI-eBOOK ON AMAZON.COM
 
By Stephen Tabeling and Stephen Janis
 
It was shortly after midnight, July 1973, in the wee small hours of Friday the 13th. Holton Brown was working the night City Desk of the Baltimore Sun, when the telephone rang and the caller ominously intoned:

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“This is Black October.  F**king Turk Scott’s a gone motherf**cker.”

Thinking this was a joke, Brown asked facetiously: “Really, where’d he go?”

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“Hell, f**cking Hell.”

Then, laughing slightly, the caller added: “He’s in the f**king parking garage for Sutton Place.

“Left something for him…”

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