"You can't tell the kids to stop the violence with the mothers running around like this."
--- Mary Ann Smith, after her son was shot by a Million Mom Marcher
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Mother Accused Of Retribution Shooting After Son Was Slain
By Donna St. George and Petula Dvorak, Washington Post newspaper, Friday, July 14, 2000; Page B01
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Barbara Lipscomb, 48, was arrested at her home in Capitol Heights at 7 a.m. on a charge of assault
with intent to kill in a Jan. 26 incident that left a 21-year-old man paralyzed from the waist down.
Police recovered three handguns and a TEC-9 submachine gun at her home.
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Among the guns police confiscated were two that belonged to Lipscomb. "She had the 9mm and
a .38 revolver," Morris said. "That surprised me, considering she said she was going to
be in the Million Mom March against gun violence and all that."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40501-2000Jul13.html
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Woman Goes on Trial In Ambush Shooting
By Donna St. George, Washington Post newspaper, Wednesday, January 24, 2001; Page B01
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In the courtroom of Judge Michael L. Rankin, the central question facing 12 jurors this week is
whether Barbara Ann Graham -- who has also been known by her married names of Lipscomb and Martin --
was so despondent and enraged by the killing of her son that she took aim at 22-year-old Kikko Smith
two days after her son's funeral last January.
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In the months after her son's death, Graham became active in Mothers on the Move Spiritually,
a Prince George's County group that helped organize the Million Mom March last year against gun violence.
Graham spoke out at the march and helped memorialize the dead. Two months later, she was arrested in the
shooting of Smith. Upon her arrest, police seized two guns from her nightstand and two more from elsewhere
in her house.
Still, the women from Million Moms are backing her at her trial. The group's president, Bernadette Trowell,
has come to court to show her support, even though Trowell cannot sit in the courtroom because she may be called
as a witness.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37911-2001Jan23.html
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Mother Convicted in Shooting
By Donna St. George, Washington Post newspaper, Friday, February 2, 2001; Page B01
The grieving mother of a teenager gunned down on Martin Luther King Jr. Day last year was
found guilty in D.C. Superior Court yesterday of trying to avenge her son's death by shooting
a young man she blamed for the killing.
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On the snowy night of Jan. 26, Graham pulled the trigger, prosecutors said -- and shot the wrong man.
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With one significant part of the case decided, however, the mother of the shooting victim struggled for reaction.
Finally Mary Ann Smith said: "From a mother to a mother, she knew better. You can't tell the kids to stop the
violence with the mothers running around like this."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15849-2001Feb1.html
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