Serb Father, 2 Sons Acquitted in Killing

A court acquitted a Serbian father and his two sons of killing an ethnic Albanian in a shootout involving U.S. soldiers, closing a case that had cast doubt on whether minorities could get a fair trial in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic. The five-member panel ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Mirolub Momcilovic, 60, and his sons, Boban, 25, and Jugoslav, 32, of killing Afrim Gagica in July 1999. The decision came a day after a U.S. soldier testified that he shot at an ethnic Albanian who was firing at U.S. troops the day Gagica died.