Prosecutors say that on the day of Ms. Pendleton's murder, Mr. Ward and a friend, who has also been charged with murder, were driving around in a Nissan Sentra owned by Mr. Ward's mother when they passed the park where Ms. Pendleton and her friends were standing under a canopy to get out of the rain.

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When the Palestinian fighters came from Jordan in the late 1960s we had more say here, and they encouraged us to get out of the wind and rain and we made houses out of concrete blocks for the first time.

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But at the same time, rain is falling inside the walls and must be pumped out, or you get a different kind of flood.

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