Clarence "Larry"Haberman was a smaller role onEureka,but a memorable one nonetheless. Six officers took Ferguson from the Nassau County jail in a three-car caravan that pulled away at 6:30 a.m. [3][2] He has been cast in many television series, television films, and films. As Ferguson was led away by guards, he insisted he had more to say to the judge. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a149b7f092e77f5 The train's cars were less than 10 years old when the shooting occurred. Police officers remove a body from a Long Island Railroad car at the Merillon Ave. station in Garden City, N.Y. [14] Several Adelphi University students expressed concern that Ferguson may have been taking the train to the school with plans of shooting people out of revenge for his past experiences there, although the train Ferguson took was not the closest one to Adelphi. Morton keeps himself extremely busy as an actor on stage, TV and film, but also as a singer-songwriter in fact, you can hear some of his music in theEureka episode "Stoned." Talk about a versatile set of pipes. McCarthy, 69, who announced this year she was battling lung cancer, was not giving interviews ahead of the anniversary, a spokeswoman said. An article in The New York Times called Ferguson's actions "as methodical as if he were taking tickets. The series followed him as he navigated the ins and outs of protecting a town just as likely to be dealing with the accidental creation of a wormhole or gravity being temporarily inverted as it was break-ins or property disputes. She asked a law clerk to sit in on the meeting because she did not want to be alone with Ferguson,[7] which she had never done before. Well-meaning but bumbling Douglas Fargo was Eureka's junior scientist, beyond brilliant but often dismissed by his peers for his . But it's funny how this time around, talking to other people and seeing where we are today, I'm beginning to think that maybe there is some now.". "The baby is in her second year of college," Combatti proclaimed in a telephone interview from her home a block from the Merillon Avenue station in Garden City, where Ferguson's carnage ended. "He showed sufficient intelligence to me.". : The Overview; Portrait of Suspect Emerges in Shooting on L.I. At the time, lawyers and mental health experts said such a defense would be difficult because Ferguson appeared to have carefully planned the attacks, and because he said, "oh God, what did I do" after he was stopped. [50], The LIRR units in which the shootings happened, #9891 and #9892, a pair of standard M3 electric cars, were held out of service for potential use as evidence, then were renumbered to #9945 and #9946. "My mom always said we both survived because we were destined to do great things," she said. He received 315 years and eight months to life, meaning his current earliest possible parole date is August 6, 2309. Fans of Eureka will also be happy to learn Matter is still friends with his old costars Neil Grayston and Ferguson though, as an Edmonton Oilers fan, he and Ferguson are rivals once hockey season starts. She shook her head at her kitchen table as she recounted subsequent shootings. Ferguson interrupted the professor by shouting, "We should be talking about the revolution in South Africa and how to get rid of the white people"[13] and, "Kill everybody white! Farentino hasn't actually done much acting since Eureka, only appearing in single episodes of Criminal Minds and Trouble Creek. [9], In February 1992, Ferguson was arrested and charged with harassing a woman on a subway. It also included 19 counts of attempted murder, 34 counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon, intent to use the weapon, violation of civil rights of each of the 25 victims and "intent to harass, annoy, threaten and alarm" the victims "because of their race, color or national origin. Von Herman was a wealthy pharmacist and the managing director of the large pharmaceutical company Hercules Agencies,[8] and was described by Time magazine as "one of the most prominent businessmen in Jamaica". [29], On December 10, 1994, Judge Belfi ruled Ferguson was competent to stand trial. Five inmates were charged with second-degree assault for their connection in the attack. : Commuters; The Ride, a Day Later: The 5:33 Will Never Seem the Same Again", "Death on the L.I.R.R. 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Ultimately, he did not call any of the witnesses. Ferguson tried to escape the police and shouted, "Brothers, come help me! NEWS DAILY/Al Raia. Among the defense witnesses Ferguson requested was President Bill Clinton. He slipped and fell on August 18, 1989, while standing on a stool to reach invoices from a filing cabinet, injuring his head, neck, and back,[10] and the injury led to his termination. Ferguson was sentenced Wednesday to a minimum of 200 years for killing six people and wounding 19 others in the Dec. 7, 1993, Long Island Rail Road shooting spree. Neil Grayston Douglas Fargo/S.A.R.A.H. [5] The notes indicated Ferguson planned to wait to start the killings until he was beyond the New York City limit out of respect for outgoing Mayor David Dinkins and Police Commissioner Raymond W. It's crazy.". [4] McCarthy's suit failed, partly because New York State law placed no responsibility on manufacturers for the criminal misuse of their products. [1], Ferguson's trial was noted for a number of unusual developments, including his dismissing his defense counsel, insisting on representing himself and questioning his victims on the stand. [1] He is known for playing Sheriff Jack Carter on the Syfy series Eureka, the Maytag Man, and Lewis on Then Came You. "Any other time, I would not like something like that happening in my courtroom," Belfi said. "And we actually couldn't keep them off the stand after that. One man appeared annoyed by their unruliness and said, "Be calm," before they forced a train door open and fled into the station. [8] On September 5, 2011, he appeared on the podcast Disasterpiece Theatre to discuss what Eureka might have looked like if it had been directed by Michael Bay. [4] Ferguson was placed on suicide watch in the Nassau County Jail. Ferguson suffered a broken nose and a swollen left eye. The prosecutor, George Peck, said victims were initially reticent about being cross-examined by the gunman but were reassured after a meeting between the victims and prosecutors at police headquarters. Kimberly Combatti, now a 19-year-old education-psychology major at Bucknell University, said she learned of her place in history when she was about 7 and looked up her name on a computer. MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) _ Reality seemed to sink in Thursday for Colin Ferguson. [20][21], On January 19, 1994, after three days of evidence presentation, a grand jury handed up a 93-count indictment against Ferguson, which carried the possibility of up to 175 years in prison. He said the prison slaying of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was "set up as a prelude against me. And in 1996, she made gun control the centerpiece of her successful bid for Congress. Ferguson told the attorneys he was receiving messages straight from God, and spoke of conspiracies to destroy him by those opposed to God. Deranged gunman Colin Ferguson methodically walked through the train, firing at random and pausing to reload as screaming passengers tried to flee. A train car that became a massacre scene when a gunman killed six people and wounded 19 more is still in service 25 years after the deadly rampage. [18] Dr. Allen Reichman, a psychiatrist who interviewed Ferguson, indicated in his report that Ferguson may have been feigning mental illness when he spoke of conspiracies against him. More recently, he's been seen playing President Hunter Franklin in The Oval,a fitting role for his distinguished looks. The killer sat handcuffed and shackled in the rear of an unmarked sedan and peered out the window until he was recognized by motorists slowed in traffic along the Long Island Expressway. [7] He was unemployed[9] and lived around many other West Indian immigrants. That short was the test run for her first feature film, God Save the Queen, which Danger also wrote, directed and produced. A man from Brooklyn named Colin Ferguson opened fire inside the commuter train to Hicksville on December 7, 1993. Director: Sudz Sutherland | Stars: Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour, Colin Ferguson. All rights reserved, This 26-Year-Old Pays $0 to Live in a Luxury Tiny Home' She Built for $35,000 in Her Backyard Take a Look Inside, 4 Ferraris Stolen on Long Island in Service Center Heist, Closing Arguments Begin in Alex Murdaugh Murder Trial: Key Takeaways From the Case. "I never thought there would be closure. We really need to see Ferguson in a hockey show now. Morton even won an Audie Award in 2020 for his audiobook narration of Ta-Nehisi Coates' debut novel, The Water Dancer. [34] In the following months, Ferguson sent Judge Belfi several letters regarding disputes between Ferguson, Kunstler and Kuby. Though its ratings over the course of five seasons dropped (as many shows tend to do), it gained a loyal cult following that still has love for it to this day. 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