Last October John Matthews, owner of the Jazz Daiquiri Lounge on South Claiborne and a witness to the first murder, was shot 17 times in his own house.

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It was eventually agreed, for example, that, behind the formal gun carriage bearing the coffin, the mourners should wear lounge suits not uniforms, although a ludicrous debate persisted as to whether Elton John, a friend of the princess, should sing at the service.

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