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Oct. 28, 1997 |
Dr. David Gandell, an abortion doctor who resides in an upstate-New York suburb, is shot sniper-style through the window of his home. The two shots fired miss Gandell, who tells authorities he suspects his ex-wife or a neighbor of the shooting. The FBI, however, suspects it is the work of an anti-abortion activist. Kopp would later be suspected of the Perinton, N.Y., shooting, though he was never charged.
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Oct. 23, 1998
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Shortly after 10 p.m., Dr. Bernard Slepian is warming up soup in his Amherst, N.Y. home with his wife and four children when he is shot by a sniper's bullets through the window.
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Dec. 18, 1998 |
Kopp's Chevrolet Cavalier found in a long-term parking lot at Newark International Airport in New Jersey.
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April 8, 1999 |
Nearly six months after the shooting, the FBI finds the alleged murder weapon : an SKS rifle wrapped in rubbed and stuffed in a cardboard tube buried a foot underground approximately 160 feet away from the shooting site.
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June 7, 1999 |
The FBI adds Kopp to their Ten Most Wanted list.
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June 24, 1997 |
An Erie County grand jury indicts Kopp for second-degree murder, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.
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October 17, 2000 | A federal grand jury indicts Kopp under a federal statute that seeks to protect freedom of access to clinic entrances.
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March 29, 2001
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Married anti-abortion activists Loretta Marra and Dennis Malvasi are arrested for conspiring to bring Kopp back into the country.
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March 30, 2001
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After two years on the lam spent throughout Europe, Kopp is apprehended by police outside a post office in Dinan, France
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Nov. 12, 2002
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Kopp confesses to being the gunman during an interview with Buffalo newspaper reporters
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