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FPesponse from Flat ¥ ej were, So the charge slammed into a bathroom door almost directly across the hall.” b vanrahan also produced photographs of the inside of the athromm door, showing hew shotgun pellets had slammed thra the wood. The prosecutor said that ballistics experts would testify during any coart Proceedings against the seven Panthers who survived (he battle that the shotgun blast he clzims opened the battle had in fact been fired from inside, My apartment thru the door at Police in the outer hallway. _ As the shotgun blast was fired from the front ttre , Detective Jones was crouching between two wooden dresser: along one wall at the mouth of the long ball that stretches the length of the apartment. He said he saw a hand reach out from the rear bedroom and fire a shot with a revolver or automatic pistol at the kitchen where other detectives were crouching. ‘Shoot It Out?’ “It was just about then,” Sgt, Groth said, ‘That I heard @ voice call out from the front bedroom, ‘Shoot it out!’ This was followed by two flashes from the same room I believe were from a shetgun.” At this point, police resumed firing and then minutes later, er perhaps only seconds, Groth said, he again ordered his men to cease fire and again called out to the Panthers, “Come cut with your hands up!” At the rear of the apartment, Dective Carmody jumped over a wooden door that formed a barricade between the kitchen and dining reom as the Panther fire continued. Gorman covered him with submachine gun fire from the fiving roam which he fired thru the connecling wall of the living room and front bedroom and down the hallway. Carmody fired one round from his .38 caliber revolver as he plunged past the rear bedroom doorway to shelter against a far wall of the dining room. Cease Fire Again Called : Again, Set. Groth called out for surrender and a cease fire and this time, from the rear bedroom, Harold Bell, 23, of Rockford, emerged with his hands in the air. Broderick and Ciszewski, who by then had also jumpcd over the barri- cade into the dining room, grabbed Bell and took him to the Litchen where other detectives held him. But again, gunfire directed at police from the front bedroom broke out and Broderick and Ciszewski fired into both bedrooms from their vantage point in the dining room, Sgt. Groth called another cease fire and ordercd the Fonthers to surrender, he said. This time, a voice called from, _ tle rear bedroom, “We're coming out. Don’t shoct, We've gut av injured man back here.” ‘The Louis Truelock, 29, of 1900 Jackson hive, walked out! e with his hands up, accompanied by Miss Deborah Johnson,’ I had men in both the front ‘and rear of the spartmen{,” 18, of 2337 Monroe st. They, too, were hustled into the kitchen. te said. “I didn’t want anyone getting hit in crossfire. the wards were barely out cf my mouth before there the whomp of a shotgua blast from the front bedroom, di-' rectly down the hall from the living room. , ‘They were firing blind because they didn't know whetle héd been directed at polive in the kitchen. Ect potective Finds Hampton * Carmody ran into the rear bedroom to find a man, la identified as Hampton, lying face down on the bed with his i head facing the bedrcom door thru which repeated guntire' “He was lying with his arms hanging over the foot of the bed,” Carmody said. ‘On the floor. at his right hand was a .45 caliber automatic and at his left a shotgun. I could she he'd been hit, but I didn't know if he was alive or dead. All I knew was that that room was full of shotguns and rifles and ammo. a fos “So I grabbed him by a wrist and ragged ‘him into the dining room, away from all those guns."” , A moment later, as Ciszewski’ was throwing various weapons out of the back bedroom, "he was wounded in his left calf, presumably by a slug fired thru the wall from the font bedroom directly adjacent. He dived for safety in the kitchen. Meanwhile, while those In the yeat of the flat were sur- “rendering, Set. Groth again ordered a cease fire. “J was virtually pleading wilh those in the front bed- room to come out,” he said. ‘But agdin they fired so Brod erick fired a shotgun five times into that room from the of the hallway. And I kept yelling for them to come out, it. there was no response.” - Gorman approached the front bedroom door with his sub, - machine gun in his hand. Py “I slammed thru that doorway, firing a “burst. into an ipen closet I spotted out of the corner of my eye directly t) the right inside the door,” Gorman said. “I saw two beds- vith the forms of two people rising between them. One had what looked Jike a shotgun in his hands he was trying to raise clear of the bed. . “As he ‘started to aim, I fired and the gun fell as he did. The second form kept rising in those few seconds and I fired again after I saw something that looked Fike a hand gun in the person’s hand.” . . The first person wounded by Gorman proved to be Blair Anderson, 18, of 6943 Justine st. The shotgun he was holding iwas identified as one stolen from a Chicago police department jsquad last April 6 in the Chicago avenue ‘police district, Bullet Lodyes in Shotgun Examination of the weapon showed” that a 45 caliber police bullet ducing the gun battle had penetrated the barrel ‘of the shotgua just a few inches above the breach, jamming it with a live round in the chamber. The second person wounded by Gorman ‘was Miss Ver- iina Brewer, 17, of 125 W. 107th st.” As Carmody piunged into the room to join Gorman, Miss Brewer and Auderson cried out, “We give up!” i then police spotted a third Panther member in the roo.n, Ponald Satchel, 19, of 2337 Mcnree st., who also surrenderéd. He also had been wounded. . ,°' In both bedrooms, police found ‘large stores of arms and 5