FONTANA - The alleged gunman in a drive-by shooting was booked on suspicion of killing the driver of the car during the attack, police said Tuesday.

Passenger Richard Allen Eppard, 20, was firing a semiautomatic gun out the driver's side window Thursday when he shot Christopher Bonadiman, 20, of Fontana in the head, police said.

The car crashed and Eppard fled on foot. He turned himself in to police on Saturday and was booked for investigation of murder, police said.

"I would say that this is probably one of the stupidest people we've come across in a very long time," police Sgt. Mark Weissmann said. "But at least he was responsible enough to turn himself in."

Eppard, a Bloomington resident, had no criminal record before the shooting. He apparently missed whoever he was targeting during the attack, police said.

Grounded Concorde takes a barge north to Scottish museum

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LONDON - Crowds gathered along the River Thames to watch a supersonic Concorde aircraft begin a very subsonic barge trip Tuesday to its final destination at a Scottish museum.

As Big Ben chimed, the barge paused at the House of Commons for a photo-call - minus wings and tail, which had been removed for the journey north. But the familiar needle-nose was in place.

Sarah Wallace, 31, of Notting Hill, west London, watched from the south bank of the river with her son Bradley, 6.

"I was never lucky enough to go on Concorde, but my parents went for my mum's birthday about five years ago. I think it should still be flying," she said.

Bradley took the practical view.

"What I liked about it was it got everyone to America really quickly," he said.

The British Airways jet, which flew from 1975 to 2000, is the last of the airline's seven Concordes to find a home following the decision last year to end commercial services.

The trip to the Museum of Flight near Edinburgh began April 4, with a road trip from Heathrow Airport to the Thames, where the aircraft was placed on a very large barge.

The aircraft will be taken up the east coast of England to Scotland. The final stage of its journey will be the most difficult - two miles short of the museum, it faces no direct road and several fields and streams.

Three Concordes were sent overseas to Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados, the Museum of Flight in Seattle and the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum in New York.

Three more are in Britain on display at London's Heathrow Airport, Manchester Airport in northwest England and Filton in central England, where the aircraft were made.

Sorority apologizes after members were urged to lie for blood drive competition

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COLUMBIA, Mo. - A sorority blood drive coordinator who urged members lie about their health to qualify as donors in a campus competition could face discipline ranging up to expulsion, a University of Missouri-Columbia official said Tuesday.

In addition, the campus chapter of Gamma Phi Beta must forfeit any points it would have earned in the "Greek Week" competition for last week's blood drive, campus fraternity and sorority leaders said Tuesday.

The sorority's national office issued a statement Tuesday saying it regretted the incident "and apologizes to the community, the Red Cross and campus."

In an April 6 e-mail sent to about 170 members of Gamma Phi Beta, sophomore Christie Key, the Missouri-Columbia chapter's blood donation coordinator, wrote: "I dont care if you got a tattoo last week LIE. I dont care if you have a cold. Suck it up. We all do. LIE. Recent peircings? LIE."

The American Red Cross tells people who are sick or have recently received tattoos or piercings not to donate blood, to protect their and the blood recipients' health.

Key added: "Even if youre going to use the Do Not Use My Blood sticker, GIVE ANYWAY." Donors who have second thoughts at the donation site can discreetly attach a sticker to a health questionnaire indicating their blood shouldn't be used. Those donations are destroyed, the Red Cross said.

Key declined to comment Monday and referred questions to her sorority chapter president, who did not immediately return a call.

The national Gamma Phi Beta statement said the blood drive e-mail was sent "without the consent or approval of any chapter officer."

Sorority and fraternity members at the school will be educated about blood donation safety, said Cathy Scroggs, the university vice chancellor for student affairs. She told reporters Tuesday the university strongly discourages making students give blood.

Key's e-mail said: "We're not messing around. Punishment for not giving blood is going to be quite severe."

Rules for the blood drive stress that members and chapters may not be punished for failing to donate.

Scroggs said the university was investigating and would decide soon whether Key will be disciplined. Scroggs said the university's standards of student conduct prohibit any action "which threatens or endangers the health or safety or any person."

Punishment could range from a written reprimand in the student's file to suspension or expulsion, Scroggs said.

The statement from the national Gamma Phi Beta said no chapter members were reprimanded for not participating in the blood drive. The rules for the blood drive stress that members and chapters may not be punished for not donating.

About 3,300 units of blood were collected at the Missouri event. The Red Cross reassured the public that its blood supplies are safe, saying all donations are routinely tested for safety.

On a single day in 1999, the campus drive took in 3,156 units of blood - enough to earn recognition from the Guinness Book of Records as the largest single-site, single-day blood collection.

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