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Philadelphia Daily News
Friday, May 31, 2002

Troy Graves' statement to police describing attack on Shannon Schieber

"She started telling me how she survived cancer. I was distracted with the story..."

"I heard a knock on the door. I applied more pressure with my right arm around her neck and tried to free my left finger from her mouth."

"She was still flailing, trying to get free. The whole time I was whispering to her to calm down, that I was just trying to leave. Then she fell off the bed, towards the wall, the computer side of the bed. She was close to the edge of the bed, her feet slide [sic] off the bed. Her feet never touched the floor. I countered by jumping back on the bed, onto my knees, which didn't allow her feet to touch the floor. OK, it was at that point that I thought I might have broken her neck."

"Still holding firm pressure on with my right arm around her neck...She wasn't moving so I released her onto the bed. She let out a gasp and I believed she was passed out. To my knowledge she never moved again while I was in the apartment."

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