The Nation - News from Nov. 6, 1985
The main co-founder of the radical cult MOVE and five children were identified as being among those killed in the fiery confrontation with police May 13, a medical expert revealed in Philadelphia. Dr. Ali Hameli, Delaware’s chief medical examiner, said that MOVE co-founder John Africa, also known as Vincent Leaphart, was one of six victims the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office was unable to identify. Hameli disputed a ruling of accidental death made in the case last July. The children died because of “the consequence of the measured and deliberate acts of, and the interactions between, the adults responsible for the MOVE house and the officials of the city of Philadelphia,” he said.
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