1st Place February 2003 General News

photos by Mark Hertzberg, Journal Times

Damien Thomas listens as Judge Stephen Simanek sentences him to prison Friday January 31, 2003 for his role in two armed robberies of the Target store by four students from Lutheran High School. Thomas, who was an honor student who was an honor student, and who worked at the store as a security guard, was charecterized as the ring leader of the group.

 

Target employees Crystal Koba, left, and Mandy Weimann, who wore their Target shirts to court, hug during Damien Thomas' sentencing hearing Friday January 31, 2003 in Racine County Circuit Court, as they listen to co-workers testify about how they were emotionally devastated by two armed robberies of the store by four students from Lutheran High School.

 

Eileen Fischer sobs as she tells Damien Thomas and the court how she was devestated by an armed robbery of the Target store while she was eight and a half months pregnant, during Thomas' sentencing hearing Friday January 31, 2003.

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