POP/ROCK - June 3, 1993

Trial Starts: The trial of Ronald Ray Howard, a 19-year-old Texan charged in the shooting death of a state trooper last April on a highway 100 miles outside Houston, began Wednesday in Austin. Howard’s attorney hopes to prove that the defendant was listening to violent songs by rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur on the night of the killing and that it affected his behavior.