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CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2005 2005

"Shamp" was published in 1974 by Mr. McPherson, who had met Ms. Gordon when they were students at Brown in Providence, R.I., because no commercial publisher would touch it, and the book was both the beginning and the cornerstone of what eventually became McPherson

NYT > Home Page By CHARLES McGRATH 2010

Back in 1974, the first book that he published was Ms. Gordon's debut novel, "Shamp of the City-Solo."

A Surprise Nomination, a Publisher's Quandary Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2010

The article said that author Jaimy Gordon's first novel, "Shamp of the City-Solo," "had fallen into relative obscurity by the middle 1980s, when Ms. Gordon discussed it in a long interview with Gargoyle Magazine."

Main Character: Richard Peabody has devoted his life to Washington's writers. At what cost? Lora Engdahl 2011

The jurors -- six men and six women -- will be asked to decide whether Sotelo willfully conspired to commit murder and targeted Shamp because he was African American.

latimes.com - News 2011

A co-defendant charged with the 2008 murder of James Shamp was seeking bragging rights and earned his gang moniker "Outlaw" when he willfully participated in the racially motivated crime, a prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments Wednesday.

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Shamp, 48, a husband and father of two children, was taking out the trash at the Canoga Bowl on Dec. 22, 2008, when a car carrying Latino gang members pulled up, prosecutors said.

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He stopped the vehicle so Bordelon could take aim like a sniper, striking Shamp "right through the heart," Akemon said.

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Daniel Akemon of the Hardcore Gang Division told jurors at the Van Nuys Courthouse that Martin Sotelo helped fellow gang member Richard Bordelon gun down Shamp, a black man, "in cold blood because of the color of his skin, in a display of senseless violence and a complete disregard for human life."

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In March 2010, Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Martin Herscovitz sentenced Bordelon to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 47 years to life, after he admitted killing Shamp.

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