The Tribune`s Oct. 5 report of the arrest of suspected Cabrini-Green sniper Anthony Garrett states that, ”Although he first denied shooting the boy, Garrett confessed to the crime saying `his conscience was bothering him.` ”
In other words, a man who has ”a criminal record dating from 1976”
freely admitted to a murder in which there was no direct evidence linking him to the crime.
Considering the media attention this case has produced, I would guess that the police were under enormous pressure to produce a suspect. I leave to the imagination what might have brought on Mr. Garrett`s pangs of conscience while being interrogated.
There is a war being fought on the streets of America`s cities as brutal and senseless as the fighting in the former nation of Yugoslavia. I encourage Mayor Daley to use whatever means necessary to clear the streets of machine guns and turf lords. The police have done too little.
