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Article: VICTIM HAD UW TIES Olympic wrestler shot dead SWAT team surrounds estate where police say du Pont heir is holed up

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January 27, 1996
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An heir to the du Pont chemical company fortune shot an Olympic wrestler to death Friday, then holed up inside his mansion as SWAT team members converged on his estate, police said.

Police said John E. du Pont was heavily armed and refusing to leave a room inside his mansion in suburban Philadelphia.

"John du Pont is a marksman, and he has an arsenal," said police Sgt. Brian McNeill.

Dave Schultz, 36, who in the late 1980s was an assistant wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was shot once in the arm and twice in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver at about 1 p.m. CST Friday, Police Chief Michael Mallon said. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Haverford ...

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