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• Vestal: Gun control rhetoric sounds tragically familiar

  May 11, 2013 in City on Page B1 Christin McCarron would have turned 27 this year. Would have, that is, if she had not been murdered by Dean Mellberg at Fairchild Air Force Base on June 20, 1994. … 45

• Voter backlash lingers for supporters of weapons ban

  December 20, 2012 in City on Page A1 As President Barack Obama set up a task force to recommend ways to prevent tragedies like the mass murders in Newtown, Conn., a progressive group in Washington joined the call … 62

• Haunted by rampage, man reaches out online

  December 28, 2010 in City on Page A1 For Andy Brown, the road to recovery includes an onramp to the Internet. When the former Air Force security police officer set up a website this year to commemorate the … 2

• Error kept Fairchild gunman in uniform

    August 13, 1994 in City on Page A1 The mentally disturbed airman who went on a shooting spree at the Fairchild hospital complex in June may have been kept in uniform for two years by unclear military regulations, …

• Fairchild gunman lost ‘family’

    July 10, 1994 in City on Page A1 For almost two years, Dean Mellberg fought to stay in the Air Force.

• Spokane mourns dead

    June 22, 1994 in City on Page A1 Capt. Alan London’s life came full circle on Monday when the psychologist died in a burst of gunfire at Fairchild Air Force Base, where he was born 40 years ago.

• Gunman unleashes deadly hail of bullets at Fairchild

    June 21, 1994 in City on Page A1 Spokane’s most secure, controlled community turned into a war zone Monday afternoon when a man armed with an assault weapon opened fire in the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital.

• Ousted airman killed his psychologist first

    June 21, 1994 in City on Page A1 The man suspected of killing four people in the Fairchild shooting spree was kicked out of the Air Force a month ago, his mother said.