Guilty Plea Ends NBC Shooting Case
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A North Carolina man charged with fatally gunning down an NBC stagehand outside the network’s Rockefeller Center studios pleaded guilty to manslaughter. William Emanuel Tager, 46, agreed to serve between 12 1/2 and 25 years in prison by pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Prosecutors said Tager, of Charlotte, N.C., used an assault rifle to shoot Campbell Theron Montgomery, 33, on Aug. 31, 1994. Tager was trying to take the rifle into the studio from which NBC’s “Today” show is broadcast.
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